Labor Militant
Issue 40 (January/February 1995)
Right wing declares war on workers, poor, women, kids… Organize and fight back!
1 article transcribed.
Articles
- Jones, Alan.1 “Right wing declares war on workers, poor, women, kids… Organize and fight back!” 1.
- “Cash drive for ’95!” 1.
- “Bond market crash shows crisis of global capitalism.” Editorial. 2.
- Barbara. “A working mother speaks: ‘We have to change the whole system to make life better for our kids…’” 2.
- “Them & us.” 2.
- Karas, Fran.2 “Build Labor Party Advocates!” 3.
- Dardis, Lorraine.3 “Break the political monopoly of big business!” 3.
- “Eugene Debs on the labor movement.” 3.
- Loucas, Dino.4 “Teamsters: Carey goes on the offensive.” 4.
- Seattle Fighting Teamsters. “Fighting Teamsters for the traditions of 1934.” 4.
- Harrison, Justin.5 “Telecommunications workers: wildcat strike at Bell Atlantic.” 4.
- “Support U.R.W. workers!”6 4.
- Mellor, Richard.7 “Orange County declares bankruptcy: Make rich shareholders pay!” 4.
- “What we stand for.” 5.
- Root, Martha.8 “Brookline murders: Stop terrorism against women’s clinics!” 5.
- Uribe, Ben. “New York City: Organize against Giuliani and the rich!” 5.
- “Solidarity convoy in Decatur: solidarity action needed to defeat union busters.”9 5.
- “‘Livin’ it up’ on welfare in 1995: reality check… and fictional public opinion.” 6.
- Rooke, Rob.10 “Contract on America.” 6–7.
- Hamilton, Bruce.11 “Transportation: profit or safety first?” 6.
- “Getting taxed to death.” 7.
- O’Torain, Sean. “Italy: movement of workers and youth brings down Italian government.” 8.
- Reimann, John.12 “Mexico: the ‘free market’ collapses.” 8.
- “Mexican workers need support!” 8.
- Dardis, Lorraine.3 “Tenemos que desafiar el monopolio político de los capitalistas.”13 9.
- “African freedom fighter.” Interview with Serge Mukendi.14 9.
- “The horror in Chechnya continues.” 9.
- “Black History Month: interview with a former Black Panther.” Interview with Bob Bowens. 10.
- Lisa.15 “Taking the business out of music.” 10.
- Wilson, Joe.16 “Organize the unorganized! Young workers’ safety suffers in fast food industry.” 11.
- “Free Dewayne Holmes!” 11.
- Williams, Tony.17 “Crowd protests cellular antenna.” [Letter]. 11.
- Murtha, Mari.18 “Plenty of nothing…” [Letter]. 11.
- Trottier, Tom.19 “Big business takes the fun out of national pastime.” [Letter]. 11.
- Youth Against Racism and Poverty member.20 “It pays to fight back!” [Militant Youth]. 12.
- Pelerin, Katiuscia.21 “Education needs: prayer or full funding?” [Militant Youth]. 12.
Notes
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Member, Local 1981, United Automobile Workers (UAW); National Writers Union (NWU). ↩
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Shop steward, Local 1-P, Graphic Communications International Union (GCIU); New York Photo-Engravers Union. ↩
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Member, Local 807, Teamsters (IBT), New York City. ↩
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Member, Local 13000, Communication Workers of America (CWA), Philadelphia. ↩
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Refers to United Rubber Workers. ↩
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Member, Local 444, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Oakland; public water utility. ↩
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Executive Board member, Local 285, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Boston. ↩
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Refers to strike of Local 7837, United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) at A.E. Staley Manufacturing in Decatur, IL. ↩
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Chicago. ↩
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Member, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), New York. ↩
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Member, Local 713, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC), Hayward, CA. ↩
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“We have to challenge the capitalists’ political monopoly.” ↩
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U.S. Representative of the Movement of Workers and Peasants of the Congo (MOP), “the organization which is at the center of the battle against the Mobutu dictatorship in Zaire.” Interview follows his U.S. tour sponsored by Youth Against Racism and Poverty (YARP) and Labor Militant. Also affiliated with Local 1199, SEIU, Manhattan; healthcare workers. ↩
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Chicago. ↩
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Framingham, MA. ↩
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Member, SEIU, Seattle. ↩
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Member, United Federation of Teachers (UFT), New York. ↩
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Member, Local 154, DC 37, AFSCME, New York City; Amalgamated Professional Employees. ↩
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Student and worker, University of California. ↩
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Member, YARP, New York. ↩