Sept 11, 2004

In the last quarter century, former agricultural workers and peasants have increasingly migrated from rural China to work all or part of the year in the cities, as industrialization and urbanization have greatly accelerated with the policies of “reform and opening up” which have brought reorganization of state-owned enterprises and development of a private sector featuring both domestic and foreign capital.

Amidst recent reports of escalating repression by Iran’s intelligence services against the country’s progressive forces, including the use of physical assault, kidnapping, and torture against those defending democratic rights and freedom of expression, the Tudeh (People’s) Party of Iran has called for the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to come clean about the mass execution of political prisoners during what it calls “the National Catastrophe of 1988.”

If you listen to President George Bush, the only way Mexicans can avoid the illegal and sometimes deadly trip across the U.S. border is to come as guest workers — temporary contract laborers for U.S. industry and agriculture.

Breakaway autonomous regions in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan are creating a headache for the Bush administration’s geopolitical planners.

On Sept. 10, 2001, I was a United Airlines flight attendant, working a night flight from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. My co-workers and I drank coffee and watched the stars pass by our windows, remarking that we relished a quiet night after the busy summer travel season.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Labor, peace and solidarity organizations and their leaders from around the Greater Bay Area will headline this year’s “all new” Beat-Back-Bush People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Banquet on Friday evening, Oct 8.

Bush’s Pentagon has announced a new privatization scheme for military physicians and other health personnel that goes along with its Iraq strategy of having private contractors perform heretofore routine U.S. military functions.

ARCADIA, Fla. — As the people of Florida were digging out from Hurricane Charley Aug. 25, three Marine sergeants arrived at the home of Carlos Arredondo in Hollywood, Fla.

End terrorism

The horrific scenes of children being carried out of the Russian school in Beslan and the mangled buses in Beersheba, Israel, have sickened and outraged, once again, all peace- and justice-loving people the world over.