International

Bolivia’s working people had a special reason to celebrate International Workers Day this year, as their new government, headed by President Evo Morales, chose May Day to announce nationalization of the country’s hydrocarbons resources.

Cientos de policía federales y estatales mejicanos atacaron la planta de acero SICARTSA en Michoacán el 20 de abril para sacar a los obreros en huelga que habían ocupado la planta desde el 2 de abril. La policía mató a dos obreros, uno de ellos un representante del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalúrgicos y Similares de la República Mexicana (SNTMMS). Unos 40 obreros fueron hospitalizados junto con dos docenas de policías.

To end the war and occupation in Iraq, the peace movement must continue to press Congress to bring the troops home and support every effort to move them to act. Congressional Democrats under pressure from the peace movement have introduced various bills and resolutions that begin to move us in this direction.

Spotlighting an aspect of the nation’s immigration debate that has received little attention, the Communications Workers executive board voted April 18 to lobby against a guest worker program which allows employers to create a temporary workforce of tens of thousands of lower-paid high-tech “guest workers.”

CHICAGO — Imagine you are at work. You’re on a break getting food from the truck outside, when you are surrounded and arrested by federal agents

Hundreds of Mexican federal and state police stormed the Sicartsa steel plant in western Michoacan, April 20, to remove striking steelworkers who had occupied the plant since April 2. The police opened fire on workers with teargas and bullets. When the smoke cleared, the police had killed two workers, one of them a representative of the National Union of Mine and Metallurgical Workers of the Republic of Mexico.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE (Agencia de Noticias Mundo Posible) — En declaración conjunta el Partido Comunista de Chile (PC) y la Izquierda Cristiana (IC) manifestaron su voluntad de realizar esfuerzos conjuntos “a favor de los trabajadores y de las mayorías excluidas” el 7 de abril en esta ciudad.

La coalición de centroizquierda encabezada por Romano Prodi ha ganado las elecciones italianas por un estrecho margen de 24.000 votos de los 38 millones de sufragios emitidos.

NUEVA YORK — Con un saludo de agradecimiento al pueblo norteamericano y a los asistentes a este acto, dio inicio a su presentación sobre el nuevo tipo de relación que tiene Venezuela con los países africanos el vicecanciller de Venezuela, Reynaldo Bolívar.