During the week of April 17, an official American Federation of Government Employees delegation, led by National President J. David Cox — along with some members of its National Executive Council — visited the settler state of Israel. Cox was the recipient of the 2012 Public Service Award from the American Friends of the Yitzhak [...]
U.S. labor delegation in Israel: Why not solidarity with Palestine?
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Workers World Washington, D.C., bureau May 2, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Attacks on Social Security mean growing poverty for retirees, elderly
The Obama administration is proposing Social Security cuts totaling more than $127 billion over the next decade. Congress and politicians have been bought off, protecting their wealthy pals at the expense of average workers. They want to cut our social safety nets and our rights. When the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, there [...]
NYC teachers, students say testing unfair
Over 500 parents and teachers, children and students, and their supporters gathered April 26 in front of Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of New York City’s Department of Education, to condemn a week of high-stakes testing based on a curriculum that hasn’t been fully implemented. The theme of the rally was “Our children are NOT a [...]
On the picket line
Workers Memorial Day, April 28 Workers Memorial Day, celebrated internationally on April 28 since 1984, has taken on heart-wrenching importance this year with two devastating work-related accidents making global headlines at the end of April. In a small town near Waco, Texas, 14 people were killed and 160 injured when a fertilizer plant exploded on [...]
Bangladeshis rebel against corporate rule
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Kathy Durkin May 1, 2013 » Add the first comment.
April 29 — In Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, nearly 400 workers, mostly women, have died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building on April 24. In addition to the appalling number of deaths, more than 1,200 were injured, many horribly, in the country’s worst industrial disaster. Emergency teams [...]
Condemn big-brand exploitation
Any real war on terror would start by hunting down those responsible for the textile factory collapse outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Start from the bottom, round up the subcontractors who place the job orders. Then the garment factories owners who ordered workers back into the Rana plant. They ignored the big crack in the wall. Then [...]
Hospitals deport undocumented patients
In 2010, Quelino Ojeda Jiménez was working atop a building at Chicago’s Midway Airport when he fell to the ground below. He suffered injuries that left him nearly quadriplegic and relying on a ventilator. Three days before Christmas 2011, Advocate Christ Medical Center, over the objections of his family and Jiménez himself, crying and unable [...]
PayPal blocks funds earmarked for Cuban 5 mobilization
Issued by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five on April 26. One day after a matching-fund appeal was sent out by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, PayPal stopped all donations coming in and froze all assets in the committee’s account. The purpose of the appeal was [...]
REAL terrorist in the world today…
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up!” is the title of an excellent Saul Landau video revealing the terror campaign against Cuba waged from Florida and the five Cuban men now in U.S. prisons going on 15 years who infiltrated anti-Cuba groups in Miami to prevent them from slaughtering Cuban civilians. It could equally be [...]
May Day protests reflect depth of European crisis
Will the traditional May Day workers’ demonstrations in Europe evolve into a gigantic anti-austerity protest this year? Massive protests are expected in Portugal, Spain and Greece, at a minimum, and in all countries there is the possibility of actions spilling beyond the traditional boundaries with coordination across national borders. Workers — including tens of millions [...]
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I had the distinct honor of meeting Assata Shakur in person at the 1997 World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. I was all the more surprised when she recognized me as the 1996 presidential candidate for Workers World Party. Assata has been living in political exile in Cuba since 1979. […]
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