The million-member union, which is combating the notoriously low-paying anti-union million-worker retailer, just organized a second Wal-Mart in Quebec, at Ste. Hyacinthe, and is poised to win even more in British Columbia.

The full text of Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world.

Once again the two powerful organizations of global capitalism have applauded and praised the Islamic regime for the detailed implementation of their demands.

Statement by the People's Unity list in Iraq sends optimistic message, despite irregularities, about the possibility for sovereignty and peace in Iraq. Also remarks by the French Communist Party.

FDR – in a stark contrast to the current administration – connected the heightened concern for security with economic and social justice.

In 1925, John Scopes, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of violating Tennessee law against the teaching of evolution in public schools.

When the president talks to America about something as serious as working families' retirement security, we need to hear sound facts and straight talk.

The President is creating a national distraction, using details about private accounts to divert attention from the huge benefit cuts and the multi-trillion-dollar costs of privatizing Social Security.

Wal-Mart has received the questionable distinction of making the list of the ten worst corporations of 2004.

Even the strongest adherents and theorists of globalization can find themselves outsmarted by the extensiveness of this phenomenon and by the largely ineffective tools developed for studying it.

Haitian police and foreign troops invade the homes of anti-coup political activists in order to suppress opposition to the US-backed regime.

Cuba continues to be a beacon to the world because of its advanced health care system. Chávez of Venezuela proposed for Nobel Prize.

The biggest losers under President George W. Bush’s blueprint to privatize Social Security are women, who make up 58 percent of all Social Security beneficiaries ages 65 and older.

The Pentagon is holding dozens of mentally ill prisoners affected by traumas resulting from maltreatment, abuse and torture suffered at the hands of their interrogators on the Guantánamo base.

Unlike the bush administration, the Chinese government accepts that certain economic and social problems have arisen recently. Also, unlike Bush, China is willing to adopt policies that will reverse these rpoblems.

Local and national elections are scheduled for October and November this year in Haitia. Missile discovery stirs up tension between Bush and Nicaraguan government.

In 1973, a post-Vietnam War Congress wanted to ensure that no future president could send troops into battle without just cause and congressional oversight.

An overuse of the word "freedom" in U.S. President George W. Bush's inaugural speech for his second term drew a lot of media attention.

Wide spread racial and gender discrimination at Cintas Corporation, the nation’s largest uniform provider, says union report. Also, oppose comp-time legislation.

In this book Stephen Pelletiere has written a history of the development of the oil industry focusing on its international development most notably with regard to Iraq.