March 11, 2006

South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Mike Rounds set the stage for an epic women’s rights battle when he signed a state law March 6 making all abortions a crime, including in cases of rape, incest and situations endangering the mother’s health. It would only permit abortion to save the woman’s life.
En español: Promulgan leyes anti mujer: Ley anti aborto afectará más a mujeres pobres

WASHINGTON — Pundits opined that India is the one place in the world George W. Bush would be “warmly welcomed.” And he was, by huge throngs of Indian protesters demonstrating against his policies of war and U.S. domination, rejecting Bush’s claim that his spreading democracy and ending terrorism.
En español: Bush se enfrenta gigante protestas en India

NEW YORK — Leaders of the Communist Party USA, meeting here March 4-5, warned that the Bush administration, aided and abetted by the Republican-majority Congress, has plunged the nation into the “worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War.”

NewsAnalysis
This month must see greatly increased pressure from the progressive grassroots, or very nasty anti-immigrant legislation will likely be enacted.

Sarah, the oldest daughter of Emad Mohsin Jafar, a leader of Iraq’s oil workers union, was burned during a bombing in the first Gulf War, and needs reconstructive surgery.

H.S. students honor International Women’s Day
Czech youth fight ‘thought control’
Campus far-right warps freedom of speech
New York event raises $14,000

The 1950s marked a turbulent period in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. At the beginning of the decade, the apartheid regime banned the South African Communist Party, a longtime, militant foe of racism and inequality. Nonetheless, its struggles and the struggles of others continued in many different forms.

Despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reinvent himself as a moderate, California’s voters are only slightly more inclined to re-elect him than they were on the eve of his historic drubbing in the November 2005 special election, according to a Field Poll released last week.

The African National Congress won two-thirds of the vote in the March 1 local elections in South Africa, handily defeating its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance, which won 16 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party won 8 percent, and the Independent Democrats, 2 percent.

Philippines: State of emergency denounced
Pakistan: Cuban medics aid quake victims
Palestine: DFLP urges coalition government
Guinea: General strike paralyzes country
France: Toxic ship turned back