JUNE 23 – For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass
demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have
repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is
Hi, we are Virna and Ernesto from Argentina. We are pleased to inform you that the DVD
of our new documentary Heart of the Factory, is now available. The purchase can be made
through the PayPal system, from all over the world. The film is about the workers of Zanon
Ceramic in Argentina. They take the factory in their own hands when the owner closes it.
"Everybody recognizes that the system is broken. Why would there be any reason to keep that system going for any amount of time until we can change it?" Eduardo Cardenas, a member of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition, is discussing the May 1 March for Immigrants' and Workers' Rights.
The American auto industry is in crisis. Sales figures have plummeted; GM even threatens possible bankruptcy. So the Big Three have asked the government and the country for loan guarantees and other help. By now it is clear to everyone concerned that the rescue measures include consequences for the workers – and indeed not pleasant ones.
It is time for the workers and the poor in the Philippines to prepare for the worse the moment its government keeps on repeating the mantra that the economic fundamentals remain good and thus there is little to worry about effects of the global recessionary trend. The world found itself in the present mess precisely because of such blind faith in neoliberal fundamentalism.