Happy Birthday, Cesar Chavez
Millions celebrated the life of Cesar Chavez nationwide on his birthday, March 31.
Labor launches McCain Revealed campaign
Everywhere Republican presidential candidate John McCain goes these days he is finding union activists confronting him on economic issues and demanding that he speak to working families’ concerns. Since March 1, union members have held actions at McCain events in Ohio, Missouri and New Hampshire.
McCain flip flops on Social Security
Angry retirees descended on Social Security Administration offices in downtown Phoenix Mar. 7 holding placards that read, “Tell McCain ‘hands off Social Security.’”
Gloria Freedman, 92
Union activist, housing organizer, loving mother, stalwart supporter of the People’s Weekly World newspaper and lifelong communist Gloria Freedman passed away Feb. 16 in New York City at the age of 92. Born Gloria Silver in 1915 as the second of eight children, Freedman was the only one of the family who took interest in her father’s business, a local candy store on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Colombias incursion into Ecuador: Who gains?
In the last few years a political sea-change has swept away most of the U.S.-sponsored, repressive military dictatorships in South America. Democratically elected and in some cases explicitly socialist-oriented governments predominate from Venezuela and Ecuador to Chile and Argentina. The tide of change is even starting to touch Paraguay, long a poster child of absolutist rule and abysmal poverty.
