Working hours: Never ending struggle
During the past 150 years employers have never let up in their single aim of exploiting workers to the utmost to maximise profits and accumulate more capital to be able to exploit more workers and make even larger profits. There is no end to their greed.
Dick DeVos: Top Ten Things to Know about his Real Agenda
Dick DeVos, co-owner of Amway, will likely win the Republican Party primary for the governor’s race in Michigan. He sure has paid enough for it, spending millions of his personal fortune on a glitzy television and radio ad campaign to hide the facts about his own agenda.
Immigration, Language and Nuestra Himno
Seizing any weapon with which to attack the growing movement for immigrant workers’ rights, the Republican Party and the right wing have found a new gripe: the recording of a Spanish-language version of the United States’ national anthem.
'I am proud that people call me the reluctant general': Colin Powell interviewed by People's Daily
Powell had commanded at least three major wars but interestingly enough he is well known in the world for his unwillingness to use military forces to solve problems.
Ray McGovern Is Going to Rumsfeld's House
Ray McGovern wasn't aiming to make Donald Rumsfeld stutter and stammer like a kid caught cheating on a test when he asked him last week why he'd lied us into a war. That was just a side benefit.
The 'Coke Side of Life' Could Get You Killed
The 'Coke side of life' is not paradise for thousands of Coke workers or the many communities forced to give up land and water resources to the multinational giant.
May Day Message to the Filipino Working Masses
The whole world is today celebrating International Workers' Day – a day of homage to the workers' role as creators of all of humanity's basic necessities and wealth, of culture and civilization.
Paying cost of relocation of USMC to Guam is absurd: JPC Ichida
Japan accepted the U.S. request that Japan pay 6.09 billion dollars, ... 59 percent of 10.27 billion dollars, or 1.19 trillion yen, the cost that the U.S. claimed necessary for the relocation of some U.S. Marine Corps units from Okinawa to Guam.
Sudan: The Danger of Division and Foreign Intervention
The Sudanese people and their democratic forces are all concerned with the means to avert and resist a coming, looming catastrophe, in the form of increased foreign domination that would take the shape of an imminent foreign intervention.
Bolivia: Morales Does the Unthinkable – He Carries out his Campaign Pledge
On May 1, his 100th day in office, Bolivian president Evo Morales decreed the nationalization of the country’s natural gas industry...Morales swept into office on what amounted to two explicit pledges: the legalization of coca leaf production and the nationalization of the country’s gas industry.
