COLUMBUS, Ohio — For over two decades, unions here have mobilized during the holiday season to give food and children’s gifts to needy families. This year, however, the campaign was bittersweet. The hundreds of union volunteers who braved the brutal cold to get the gifts out at the big United Auto Workers Local 969 hall on the city’s west side had heard that the Delphi plant where the local’s members worked was being closed. 
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| Dec. 22, 2007
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WASHINGTON — Millions of children, senior citizens, sick and disabled people will suffer because President Bush and his Republican allies in Congress blocked increased funding for low-income programs contained in a domestic spending bill approved this week.
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The Senate voted almost unanimously Dec. 13 to raise car and truck fuel economy standards for the first time in 30 years. The bill, passed 86-8, requires a 40 percent increase in fuel economy for U.S. vehicles, to an average of 35 miles a gallon by 2020.
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As the race for the 2008 presidential elections gains momentum, the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses are right around the corner. They can make or break candidates for the Democratic and Republican Party nominations.
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Despite our victories in both State and Federal Courts last Friday, we recognize that it is quite possible that we might lose the City Council vote on Thursday, December 20th.
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PARIS, Maine — Está helado y la nieve cubre las ciudades y campo en este estado de Nueva Inglaterra. Familias con ingresos bajo y medianos están luchando para mantener calefacción en sus hogares mientras que el precio de combustible está a doble y hasta triple lo que era el año anterior.
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Trabajadores de servicio y mantenimiento en la Universidad Yale, integrantes del Local 35 del sindicato UNITE-HERE, se han convertido en el blanco de una agrupación de odio contra los inmigrantes, cuyo fin es fomentar divisiones raciales y minar al liderazgo del sindicato.
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The Republican presidential candidates are now vying with each other to see who can bash immigrants the hardest. Those who in the past have appeared more pro-immigrant are now jumping on the bashing bandwagon.
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The following is excerpted from a People’s Weekly World editorial on the Dec. 12, 2000, Supreme Court decision re: Bush v. Gore, which started on page one of that edition. As we head into the 2008 presidential elections, we reprint it here to commemorate the seventh anniversary of a “very American coup.”
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Not every struggle carries the same political significance. Some leave little trace on the political landscape; others rearrange it extensively.
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