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The association representing shipping lines decided Friday to lock out longshoremen at all West Coast ports until Sunday morning as contract negotiations deteriorated....

To the best of knowledge it was the first comic book intended as explicitly revolutionary propaganda....

what is the purpose of a hidden file?...

30 health care workers fired, union leaders held at gunpoint in El Salvador as the resistance to corporate gloablization surges...

While the regime has wasted much time and energy in its defeated 'war on terror', the West Nile virus has spread to the level that it has now infected the nation's blood supply. Obtaining a transfusion is now Russian roulette, thanks to putative regime supremo George Bush....

The Port Workers Solidarity Committee will be protesting the presence of union buster US Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. Her lawyers have threatened ILWU members with troops if they go out on strike....

We are demanding that our university refuse the next coca-cola contract renewal unless coca-cola cleans up their act. (1. Allow international human rights monitors in their plants and around their installations. 2. Publicly condemn paramilitary violence in Colombia and cease all connections with them. 3. Allow the WRC, an independent sweatshop monitoring group,into their plants.) We will demand our university to write a letter to coke demanding these things or else...NO CONTRACT....

Like the USA, Korea finds it useful to take in a supply of undocumented laborers. They are useful, tractable and, often, politically convenient. They are always easy victims. This is one of a continuing number of cases forwarded to IMC from the source....

"Insults of those no longer `needed' in the production process are not new. Abuses always arose when no reasons to be especially concerned about the excluded and discriminated occurred to governments." Reducing working hours is vital....

Relying on big business politicians and refusing to mobilize their members to confront the employers' attacks is a strategy that has led to defeat after defeat for organized labor despite great sacrifice and heroism from the rank and file union member. There is little indication in the ILWU/PMA struggle that change is on the way....