http://www.workers.org/ en-us http://www.workers.org/wwstar.gif http://www.workers.org/ http://www.workers.org/2010/us/immigrants_0325 On March 21, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people will be demonstrating for immigrant rights in Washington, D.C. The action arises from the frustration and deep anger that exist in the immigrant community and among their supporters that despite a nonstop demand for full rights for immigrants, especially legalization for the undocumented, such pleas have been ignored by Washington. us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:15:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/world/palestine_0325 A lot of noise is being made over what happened recently in Israel when U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden went there to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During Biden’s visit, which was supposed to promote the “peace process” and lead to a renewal of discussions between the Palestinian Authority and the Tel Aviv regime, the Interior Ministry announced that Israel was going ahead with building 1,600 new housing units for Zionists in East Jerusalem. world Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:12:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/world/haiti_0325 On March 2, seven U.S. doctors gave a report on their month-long mission of providing post-earthquake medical services in Haiti at a program at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. world Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:09:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/world/widf_0325 The Women’s International Democratic Federation held a panel discussion on “The Economic Crisis and Women’s Access to Work” at the United Nations on March 10 as part of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women. world Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:01:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/world/afghanistan_iraq_0325 One-fifth of the world’s population is so poor that it does not have basic necessities such as shelter and food. Three-quarters of the poor are women and their numbers at the bottom are increasing. Why is this so? world Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:57:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/us/letter_0325 As soon as I saw the WW editorial about the “Double standards in Black and white,” I immediately thought of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:53:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/editorials/wars_0325 There can no longer be any doubt about the character of the wars being waged by the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are not just Bush-Cheney wars, although these mass murderers should not be left off the hook. They represent more than a mistaken policy or a particularly brutal group of politicians in the pockets of the oil companies. These wars flow from the economic system that prevails in the United States. The class that sits atop this vast capitalist economy is never satisfied. Millionaires have become billionaires largely on the super-profits wrung from their worldwide empire. editorials Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:11:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/us/public_education_0325 Capitalism is leaving tens of millions of workers without jobs. It is also abandoning millions of children to flounder in a chaotic education system, buffeted by school closings and teacher firings. us Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:02:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/us/detroit_schools_0325 Spokespersons for corporate Detroit have issued plans to take total control of the public school system as well as “shrink” the city over the next decade. These efforts come amidst the worst economic crisis in Detroit since the Great Depression. The city leads all other major urban centers in joblessness with an official unemployment rate of 28 percent. us Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:54:00 EDT http://www.workers.org/2010/world/cuba_0325 On March 11, using the pretext of a suicide of a prisoner in Cuba, European Union politicians attacked socialist Cuba, once again falsely alleging human-rights violations and demanding the release of a small number of paid U.S. agents imprisoned there. By doing so the EU Parliament not only ignored the overriding 50-year violation of Cuba’s democratic right to self-determination, but joined in it. world Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:09:00 EDT