Jul 20, 2002

Recently we lost Ted Williams, probably the greatest pure hitter of all time. During his playing days he bore the brunt of abuse from the press for his disdain for them and his obvious self-confidence.

American workers are under attack by an anti-worker president who didn’t even win the election for the office he holds.

Protesters shouted and blew whistles when Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson attempted to defend George W. Bush’s record on combatting the AIDS scourge, during the 14th International AIDS conference in Barcelona, Spain, July 9.

Anne Burlak Timpson died at age 91 on July 9, 2002.

LA HABANA (Prensa Latina) – La artritis y la artrosis son enfermedades muy difundidas por todo el mundo. Ambas son dolencias crónicas que necesitan tratamiento a largo plazo.

Labor leaders came and went throughout the half-century of Mary Harris Jones’ (Mother Jones) career. She became an institution among the masses of miners and other working people for whom she fought. Her struggles documented the treatment of workers by their exploiters. She teaches us about the cold-blooded killing of strikers by hired guns and the U.S. Militia, the stark day-to-day realities of slave labor, the lengths to which capitalism will go to maintain unlimited profits and power, and what we must do to end that power.

When I started Richard Wright’s book Uncle Tom’s Children, I expected it to be much like Black Boy, which I had read as a child. But this work, a collection of five mid-length stories, was nothing like the story of my memory.

A sleek, white yacht cruised into the harbor at Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino, February 19. The Edwards, the richest family in Chile, were visiting this hard-to-reach island for vacation purposes and business. And that business was salmon.

NEW YORK – Over 150 communist club leaders gathered here June 28-30 for the Communist Party USA’s (CPUSA) National Committee meeting and conference on building clubs and grassroots organizing. The CPUSA is setting a priority on building its clubs in cities and towns around the country.

Una nueva conspiración golpista está en marcha. Los mismos que atentaron contra la democracia el 11 de abril, están adelantando en estos momentos un plan para imponer un régimen de facto en el país. A través de la paralización de la ciudad de Caracas, pretenden crear un clima de desestabilización para justificar el pronunciamiento de elementos golpistas que aún persisten en la Fuerza Armada.