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Memin Pinguin and Mexicos national myth

July 22, 2005

The Mexican government’s decision to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the comic strip character Memin Pinguin by putting it on a postage stamp demonstrates forcefully the nationalist and racial illusions that the Mexican establishment propagates in...

Putting Cuba in context

July 22, 2005

There is something about Cuba that addles the brains of otherwise intelligent journalists, political pundits and social scientists. Could it be that when they examine the situation of Cuba, they fail to put it in context?...

Pass the Building Unity and Trust Resolution

July 22, 2005

A unified working class: This is the one force with the strength to confront the ultra-right and to thwart the damage of corporate globalism. Without unity of workers, no lasting positive change can be won and...

The debates in labor: Lessons from our past

July 22, 2005

Read the 1946 political action program of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and much of it sounds like it could have been written for today. It is a fighting program calling for a national health...

CAFTA = pollution, hunger, job loss

July 22, 2005 By Bruce Bostick And Rosalío Muñoz

With a vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement expected in the House of Representative before the end of July, 10 activists in the Los Angeles Coalition Against CAFTA held a four-day hunger strike July...