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Holiday canceled, but 200,000 celebrate Russian Revolution

November 11, 2005

Though the long-standing Nov. 7 holiday celebrating the anniversary of the Russian Revolution has been canceled, press reports indicate that nearly 200,000 people throughout the country observed the holiday anyway, with rallies, demonstrations and ceremonies. Over...

In Berlin New faces with old policies?

November 11, 2005

News Analysis BERLIN — Everything has changed! Nothing has changed! A new coalition is taking shape in Berlin. Former Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder has been replaced by the first woman to head a German government, Angela...

Iranian party slams leaders comments on Israel

November 11, 2005

In an Oct. 29 statement, the Tudeh Party of Iran denounced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his statement earlier that month calling Israel a “disgraceful blot … that should be wiped off the face of the world.”...

New York University grad students strike

November 11, 2005

NEW YORK — New York University’s graduate assistants’ union, GSOC/UAW 2110, began a strike Nov. 9 after NYU, using a 2004 National Labor Review Board ruling, failed to bargain with the union. The strike, which has...

Rosa Parks: courageous fighter for justice

November 11, 2005 By Debbie A. Bell

Commentary On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Louise Parks, like all Black people who traveled by public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., boarded the front door of the metropolitan bus and paid her fare to the driver. Then...