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Langston Hughes: Working-class voice for equality, peace and socialism

March 29, 2002

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is justifiably known as the Poet Laureate of the African-American people. He consciously carried on the unfinished equality struggles bequeathed by African-American history and of his own day. Not a poem, story or...

Philly students:Stop greed! Im not for sale

March 29, 2002

PHILADELPHIA – As angry students, parents and community activists chanted “Stop corporate greed” and “I am not for sale,” the School Reform Commission (SRC) voted unanimously March 26 to hire the school privatizer, Edison Schools Inc....

Right takes aim at county government

March 29, 2002 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

MILWAUKEE – Robert Miranda of the Greater Milwaukee Green Party calls it “a stealth attack on democracy” and a “potential right wing takeover.”

Public education at stake in Illinois

March 29, 2002

CHICAGO – The current economic crisis is having a devastating impact on state budgets across the country. States have an estimated collective deficit of $50 billion. The Illinois budget is in crisis, and the budget cuts...

Billionaires take a hit, but still soar

March 29, 2002 By John Cavanagh And Sarah Anderson

Each year, the Institute for Policy Studies examines the list of the world’s billionaires and tries to put their wealth in perspective by comparing it to other things that are big and important in the world.