Submitted on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 7:31pm
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Submitted on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 8:59pm
Headlines:
- Ft. Worth Starbucks Joins The One Big Union
- FAU Struggle at Babylon Cinema
- Bangladesh Garment Workers Rally for Human Rights
Features:
- Special: IWW Delegation to Palestine
- Obituaries: Goodbye FW Ray Jessop and Dennis Brutus
- Why We Should Oppose The U.S. Occupation of Haiti
Download a free PDF copy of this issue.
Submitted on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:00am
Featuring:
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Immigrants on hunger strike at South Texas ICE detention centre
- Milwaukee construction workers organize for jobs and safety
- New York City workers march against their bosses, rain, on May 1st
- Baristas form the first Starbucks union in Latin America
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here.
Submitted on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:00am
Con:
- Inmigrantes detenidos en huelga de hambre en el centro de ICE del Sur de Texas
- Trabajadores de la construcción se organizan para trabajo y condiciones seguros
- Trabajadores de la ciudad de nueva York luchan contra sus jefes, lluvia el Primero de mayo
- El primer sindicato de Starbucks en America Latina
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Submitted on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 7:55pm
Disclaimer: the following is the opinion of the author and not the official position of the IWW.
When the earthquake leveled much of Haiti, including the
Presidential Palace, it destroyed the capitalist state apparatus as well as
buildings and lives. In a country whose history includes bloody repression and
paramilitary death squads, all reports were that both the police and the
military had disappeared from the streets.
For several days, the US administration dithered,
uncertain of what to do. Then Obama announced the sending of troops to Haiti along
with the commitment of the miserly sum of $100 million in aid (one third less
than was spent on his inaugural ball). What is the purpose of those troops
there?
“Restoring Order”
The conservative Heritage Fund spelled it out: “We should rapidly
deploy sufficient US
military and civilian forces to help Haitians restore order in the capital of Port-au-Prince and in
surrounding areas,” they write on their
web site. They also clearly see the necessity of using the troops to
prevent the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes from increasing their influence in Haiti.
Nobody should be surprised if conflicts develop along these lines in Haiti.
Obama also carried out the Heritage Fund’s recommendation of
appointing Bill Clinton and George Bush to head up US initiatives in Haiti.
Clinton has a long
history of helping foster neo liberal policies there (low wages and
privatization) as well as having supported the coup against Aristide. Bush is
famed for his administration’s “relief” effort in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The
failure to provide timely aid in Haiti
shows that the direction of efforts in New Orleans
was no mere accident, nor the product of the incompetence of one particularly
stupid US
president; it was the result of the policy of massive privatization. The fact
that these two are in their present position regarding Haiti shows
that nothing has changed.
