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  • Lem Harris, farm labor writer, dies at 98

    Lem Harris, farm labor writer, dies at 98

    September 27, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

    Lem Harris, a lifelong defender of family farmers and the rural working class, died Sept. 21. He was 98 years old. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Communist Party, and was...

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  • Give now to keep PWW/Mundo rolling

    Give now to keep PWW/Mundo rolling

    September 27, 2002

    Dear friend, As a reader of the People’s Weekly World and Nuestro Mundo, you, like tens of thousands of ordinary, decent people throughout our country, are taking heart that for the first time since the Sept....

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  • Bush axes kids health plan

    Bush axes kids health plan

    September 27, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

    The Bush administration is poised to launch an attack on children’s health care. Crying the blues of “fiscal prudence,” the president is withdrawing one-fourth of the federal financing of children’s health insurance coverage, exposing millions of...

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  • Dockers protest increased work loads

    Dockers protest increased work loads

    September 27, 2002

    OAKLAND, Calif. – As part of a mounting campaign to pressure employers to begin bargaining seriously about maintaining union jurisdiction over new technology jobs on the waterfront, hundreds of members of the International Longshore and Warehouse...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    September 27, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

    Iraq: CPs in Arab countries protest U.S. threats / Italy: Huge protest vs. Berlusconi policies / South Africa: AIDS activists accuse giant drug firms / Brazil: Overwhelming vote against FTAA / Slovakia: CP wins 11 seats...

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