Jan. 7, 2006

George W. Bush promised to restore “honor and integrity” to our nation’s capital. But Jack Abramoff’s guilty plea on bribery charges has sent dozens of politicians in Washington scurrying like rats for holes to hide in. His testimony in a sweeping criminal probe of government corruption could make the Teapot Dome scandal look like a Sunday school picnic.

Jan. 1 marked the 47th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. It was on this date, in 1959, that Fidel Castro and his July 26th Movement overthrew the Batista dictatorship, making possible the beginning of Cuba’s transition to socialism.

‘For the union makes us strong’; Straphanger stands in solidarity; Bush has surprise guests; Immigrants and the law; Help needed to start union; Calif. workers comp law

Over 150 years ago, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels founded the scientific study of society, or scientific socialism. After Marx died, Engels carried their studies a step further by laying the theoretical foundations of dialectical materialism in his book “Dialectics of Nature.”

After writing her book-length description of surviving on a minimum wage in “Nickel and Dimed,” Barbara Ehrenreich has now turned her attention to the plight of unemployed middle-class white collar employees in “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.”

The UN General Assembly regularly and nearly unanimously rejects the 40-plus-year-old U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. Yet the U.S. government intensifies its assaults. Public knowledge about U.S. policies and awareness of what’s happening inside Cuba are both limited.

Teachers in Oakland and San Francisco returned from their holiday break ready to step up sharp struggles for better teaching and learning conditions, wages and health benefits.

La noticia que el presidente George W. Bush ordenó que la Agencia Nacional de Seguridad (NSA por sus siglas en inglés) espíe a gente que no han violado ninguna ley, en violación de las leyes federales ha motivado la ira de muchos con demandas de que él y su vicepresidente Dick Cheney deben ser censurados o enjuiciados con el fin de destituirlos de sus puestos.

TALLMANSVILLE, Virginia Occidental — Trabajando fuerte, haciendo las cosas por las reglas, y viviendo su fe para construir una comunidad puede ser fatal cuando se extrae el carbón en la Mina Sago, citada más de 200 veces el año pasado por violar normas de seguridad. El International Coal Group (ICG – Grupo Internacional de Carbón) se beneficia de $15,7 millones por la mina en solo el tercer cuarto del año pasado.