Fred Gaboury

Fred Gaboury was a member of the Editorial Board of the print edition of People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo and wrote frequently on economic, labor and political issues. Gaboury died in 2004. Here is a small selection of Fred’s significant writings: Eight days in May Birmingham and the struggle for civil rights; Remembering the Rev. James Orange; Memphis 1968: We remember; June 19, 1953: The murder of the Rosenbergs; World Bank and International Monetary Fund strangle economies of Third World countries

LATEST ARTICLES BY Fred Gaboury

World

U.S. corporations set to profit off Iraq
April 18, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
The Bush administration’s attempt to fashion for itself the sole role of ruler and victor in post-war Iraq is meeting growing domestic and international opposition.
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Labor

March unemployment report: More bad news
April 11, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
None of the numbers in the March unemployment report are good: * Official unemployment stuck in the 5.8 percent range.
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Peace

War tax resisters launch campaign
April 11, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
Mary Loehr works out of a small office in Ithaca, N.Y., where she coordinates a national campaign to build support for those who choose to withhold federal income taxes in protest against war.
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U.S.

Budget battle continues over brutal cuts
April 4, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
News Analysis In a statement released after the Senate approved a resolution setting the parameters for the 2004 budget, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney singled out the Senate’s 51-48 vote to cut Bush’s tax cut for the...
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Labor

Memphis 1968: We remember
April 3, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)
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World

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Iraq
March 27, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
With the threat of a humanitarian crisis growing daily, international aid agencies have called upon U.S. armed forces to take urgent measures to help the Iraqi people obtain water and other aid necessary for survival.
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Peace

World leaders: Iraq war unjustified
March 22, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
The decision by George W. Bush to launch a preemptive military strike against Iraq brought angry protests from apprehensive governments around the world.
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U.S.

Child poverty and the Bush budget
March 20, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
Nowhere is the fakery of “compassionate conservatism” better exposed than in George W. Bush’s 2004 budget proposals affecting the children in low-income families
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