UFCW Answers Wal-Mart Ad Pitch with Canadian Gains
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.
Making Poverty History
The full text of Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world.
IMF/World Bank Praise Iran's Privatization Efforts
Once again the two powerful organizations of global capitalism have applauded and praised the Islamic regime for the detailed implementation of their demands.
Statements on the Iraqi election
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.
Book Review – The Second Bill of Rights, Cass R. Sunstein
FDR – in a stark contrast to the current administration – connected the heightened concern for security with economic and social justice.
Faith in Science
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.
No Straight Talk in Bush's Speech
When the president talks to America about something as serious as working families' retirement security, we need to hear sound facts and straight talk.
Responses to Bush's Social Security Privatization Scheme
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 Tops List of Worst Corporations
Wal-Mart has received the questionable distinction of making the list of the ten worst corporations of 2004.
Resisting the Globalizing Spirit
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.
