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  • A strategy to win the majority

    A strategy to win the majority

    May 3, 2002

    When 100,000 people marched on Pennsylvania Avenue April 20 to protest George W. Bush’s war on the people “at home and abroad,” the most urgent, immediate demand was that Bush stop his double talk and throw...

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  • Marxism Lives! Marxism and labor

    Marxism Lives! Marxism and labor

    May 3, 2002 By John Gilman

    From the beginning of trade unionism in our country, socialists, Marxists and Communists have shown by word and deed their commitment to help build the labor movement. They saw unions as indispensable instruments of struggle to...

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  • Epileptic, restrained by police, dies

    Epileptic, restrained by police, dies

    May 3, 2002

    BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Bodily pressure that impaired his breathing caused the death of a New York man who died in police custody here April 16, apparently while he was suffering an epileptic seizure, authorities said. Santiago...

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  • School bus drivers vote for union representation

    School bus drivers vote for union representation

    May 3, 2002

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. – School bus drivers at First Student voted overwhelmingly for union representation in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election April 12. Choosing union by a margin of 119-36, the workers, Latina and...

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  • Illinois AFL-CIO: One million strong, together as one

    Illinois AFL-CIO: One million strong, together as one

    May 3, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – With their placards bobbing like white caps on a sea of brightly colored T-shirts, 10,000 trade unionists flooded the street in front of the state capitol here in a “Solidarity Day” show of...

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