International

"Hasta la vista, blockade!"

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque delivered a blistering speech to the United Nation General Assembly Nov. 4 calling for the end of the U.S.-imposed embargo against the socialist nation.

PHILADELPHIA – Doug Allan, an authority on the Canadian health care system and a longtime health researcher for one of Canada’s largest public employee unions, spoke to appreciative audiences in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Cambridge, Mass., this week in a tour sponsored by the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo.

“Vamos a marchar juntos con camioneros y electrecistas, enfermeras y maestros, trabajadores de salud todo tipo de obreros” dijo Fred Frost, presidente del AFL-CIO al diario Miami Herald.

!Esto se nos hundió! Con estas palabras se expresó el presidente. Álvaro Uribe al enterarse del rotundo fracaso del referéndum propuesto por el, y su gobierno para no solo luchar contra la corrupción como afirmara el, sino también de una forma muy util, introducir la reelección presidencial, que era su máxima aspiración en ese evento político.

CHICAGO – Dos sindicalistas estadounidense acabaron de regresar de Irak y dicen que tienen la esperanza de que su viaje es el empezar de la cooperación y la solidaridad entre el movimiento laboral de Estados Unidos y los sindicatos iraquíes recién establecidos de nuevo.

Opinion

This year marked the centenary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ most famous book, Souls of Black Folk. It fell in a year wracked by warfare and capitalist deceit. The fraud of weapons of mass destruction sent our troops into battle against a people who have suffered the ravages of an uncertain history for at least a century.

Opinion

The corporate media were buzzing with columnists and commentators on the purpose of U.S. President George W. Bush’s 21-hour visit to Australia last month. Most said that it was to give the Australian government the customary rub on the tummy for getting involved in another U.S. military adventure

Opinion

Wal-Mart is an outlaw. It is also the largest retailer in the world and the largest private employer in the world. It is financially larger than Switzerland and employs more than eight times the number of troops Bush has deployed in Iraq.

The “Switzerland Agreement,” also known as the “Geneva Accords,” is an important political “mechanism that should be built on” to reach a just and lasting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a statement issued by the Palestinian People’s Party Oct. 29.

The International Union of Students (IUS) was joined by regional students’ organizations from around the world on Sept. 13 in a Global Student Day of Action to Defend Public Education.