The Bush administration is shedding crocodile tears over the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region to hide its real aim: securing control of vast oil resources in Sudan. 
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Jan. 27, 2007
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Iran’s Tudeh (Communist) Party has assailed the Bush administration’s increasingly aggressive posture toward Iran, calling a “provocative” U.S. raid on an Iranian government office in Iraq and threats issued by President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “worrying developments for all progressive and national forces of our country.”
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UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution against racism and discrimination Dec. 20, after the U.S. and two other countries sought to block it
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PARIS — The new year in France has opened with bold and coordinated protests by the nation’s homeless. The protests are taking place against the backdrop of two years of intensified struggle by the country’s working people against big capital’s efforts to drive down their living standards.
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Nicaragua: Ortega hits the ground running
Guinea: Unions take on nation’s president
Vietnam: Swedish unionists visit for talks
Jordan: Anti-U.S. sentiments growing
Nepal: Maoist rebels enter Parliament
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Bush health care plan ‘sticks it to workers’
GE negotiations looming
‘Labor’ re-instated to House directory
Pride pushes minimum wage
NLRB to rule on union access to e-mail
Union sports people take aim
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MINNEAPOLIS (PAI) — Hundreds of janitors jammed a meeting Jan. 13 to overwhelmingly authorize a strike if a settlement cannot be reached with Twin Cities cleaning contractors
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California’s citrus and other crops have been devastated by five consecutive nights of sub-freezing temperatures that struck Jan. 12, dealing a sharp blow to growers and putting thousands of farmworkers out of work, especially in the Central Valley.
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Two prominent labor organizations have sued the Bush administration for failing to protect nearly 20 million workers from job injuries.
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Jim Adams started at Smithfield Packing on the hog kill floor assembly line. He was hurt on his first day, and by the time his second shift ended he knew he’d better keep his mouth shut and try to ignore the pain if he wanted to keep his job.
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