Apr 27, 2002

CHENNAI, India – Ten million workers, including workers from the banks, ports and mines were in the frontline of a nationwide general strike, April 16.

WASHINGTON – Pennsylvania Avenue became a river of humanity April 20 as nearly 100,000 chanting demonstrators marched from the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building demanding an end to the Bush administration’s “war at home and abroad.”

TUCSON – “This kind of movement can lead the way to world peace,” thundered local Jobs with Justice leader Steve Valencia to equally loud applause from the hundreds of people gathered at Catalina Park here.

In a stunning setback to the Bush administration, the Senate shot down a key element in President Bush’s energy plan on April 18. The 54-46 vote, which saw eight Republicans breaking ranks with the White House, fell well short of the 60 votes necessary to end debate on legislation that would have given Bush authority to allow drilling for oil on the Arctic Natural Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). For the entire article, click on the headline. To visit the homepage of Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, click here.

Mientras el presidente George W. Bush posaba para fotos en las montañas Adrondack, sus credenciales ambientales fueron atacadas por ambientalistas, líderes del Partido Demócrata y otros.

In a cruel hoax, the capitalists are singing “home ownership” as a solution to the terrible insecurity their system creates daily. President George W. Bush is the current lead for the “Culture of Ownership” band. But beware the “Enron” in their siren song!

The events behind Cuban President Fidel Castro’s abrupt departure from the U.N. Conference on International Financing for Development at Monterrey, Mexico, last month were dramatically revealed by Castro himself this week, after a narrow 23-21 vote, with nine abstentions, against Cuba in the U.N. Human Rights Commission (HRC) at Geneva.

April Smith, a leader in the Michigan District of the Communist Party, helped kick off the CPUSA’s $75,000 fund drive with a $1,000 check and pledge to reach their goal.

Last week’s abortive coup d’etat against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had the fingerprints of the CIA all over it.

El 22 de junio del 1835, los trabajadores desfilaron en las calles con pancartas y banderas reclamando trabajar “De 6 a 6, Diez horas de trabajo y dos para comer.” Ellos lo ganaron, pero los perdieron en el 1841 cuando la gran mayoría de trabajadores fueron forzados retornar a una jornada de 12 a 14 horas, seis días de la semana.