May 29, 2004

CHICAGO – Phone giant SBC Communications got the message when 100,000 workers in 13 states put down their headsets and tool belts to hit the streets, transmitting their own powerful message.

Longtime Philadelphia labor activist Jim Moran had little use for George W. Bush’s May 24 Iraq policy speech.

“It didn’t score any points with me,” Moran said.

The National Board of the Communist Party USA released the following statement on May 23.

The torture by U.S. military intelligence of Iraqi detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has ignited outrage at home and abroad.

BRONX, N.Y. – More than 250 Puerto Rican activists and leaders met here “to discuss the state of our communities” and to begin the development of a “progressive political agenda” for Puerto Ricans in 2004. click here for Spanish text

Cuba has survived 45 years of U.S.-inspired military incursions, terrorist attacks, internal subversion, economic blockade, biological warfare, and diplomatic isolation, but Cuban leaders say worse is yet to come.

PLEASANTON, Calif. – Hundreds of workers from Safeway and other area grocery chains filled the space in front of Safeway’s corporate headquarters here with a sea of bright yellow T-shirts May 20, giving a resounding welcome to Safeway CEO Steve Burd and other company bigwigs at their shareholders’ meeting.

AUSTIN, Texas: Death penalty foes blast execution / SEATTLE: March for affordable health care / OLD BRIDGE, N.J.: Community vs. Omnipoint / LA PAZ, Calif.: Terminating Huerta? Say, No way! / CHICAGO: Equal rights, equal marriage / HUDSON, N.Y.: Suspensions rooted in racism?

VANCOUVER, Canada – On May 23 Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin called new elections for June 28. While eight parties are competing, polls show the Liberal and Conservative parties as frontrunners.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Special Forces units of the Haitian National Police, acting as part of a larger U.S. Marine “peacekeeping” force, killed at least nine Fanmi Lavalas demonstrators here May 18, as U.S.

Greenland: U.S. base to expand / Japan: Okinawans sit in at U.S. base / China: Unions help the jobless / Colombia: Oil workers fired / South Africa: YCL to campaign for free education