International – Page 247

50th anniversary of Berlin Wall: a deeper look

August 12, 2011 By Victor Grossman

This year Berlin's public TV channel gripped our brain cells every day for a month in advance of the anniversary of the Berlin Wall. For anyone probing more deeply, however, some questions still require answers. Why...

For Air Canada workers, tentative pact in tough conditions

August 12, 2011 By Cory Collins

Air Canada is the world's ninth largest passenger airline and was an independent government-owned enterprise until its privatization in the 1980s.

AFL-CIO backs “people’s movement” in Middle East

August 5, 2011 By James Parks

The executive council praised the role workers and independent trade unions are playing in the popular mobilizations against corrupt, oppressive regimes.

Furious reaction to U.S. gun exporting scheme

July 7, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Public opinion on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border is reacting angrily to a program called Operation Fast and Furious, through which the ATF deliberately allowed thousands of automatic weapons to be smuggled into Mexico

Steelworkers warn Congress: Don’t back trade that hurts workers

June 24, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The Steelworkers have laid out, again, a detailed case against all three pending "free trade" agreements - with Colombia, Panama and South Korea - circulating on Capitol Hill.