On June 16, 1976, the apartheid regime of South Africa faced the heroic SowetoUprising.

Martina Davis-Correia, the sister of Georgia death row prisoner Troy AnthonyDavis, addressed the delegates at the 34th International Longshoreand Warehouse Union Convention in Seattle on June 10. She called for support ofa resolution entitled "Racist Oppression and the DeathPenalty."

When mourners gathered June 18 in Port-au-Prince's cathedral to celebratethe life and leadership of Father Gérard Jean-Juste, a hero in the Haitianpeople's struggle in both the United States and Haiti, the mood wasclearly anti-occupation.

On June 4 President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world while visitingCairo, Egypt. His speech covered seven major sources of tension between theU.S. and Muslims worldwide. He stated that "we should not ignore sourcesof tension," but "we must face these

The local New York City government led by its mayor, billionaire MichaelBloomberg, deepened its economic assault on all city workers and their unionswhen it announced proposed layoffs of upwards of 2,600 members of AmericanFederation of State, County and Municipal Employees

More than a thousand Philadelphia municipal union workers, many coming straight from work,rallied in the rain in Love Park on June 18 to fight for their rights.Contracts for American Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesDistrict Councils 33 and 47,

U.S. Iraq war resister Cliff Cornell was sentenced last week to 12 months hardlabor and a bad conduct discharge for refusing to participate in the war inIraq and for going to Canada in 2005. He was forced out of Canada

Some 100 people, many of them movement activists, gathered for a rallycalled by the Coalition to Take Back WBAI outside the station's WallStreet offices on June 17 to protest the ongoing purge of some of thestation's most progressive voices.

The nightmare that has haunted thousands of Katrina survivors since storms anddecrepit levees destroyed a significant portion of the Gulf Coast during thelate summer of 2005 continues in large part today. Since hurricanes Katrina andRita took place, hundreds of thousands

Letter to WW: The article on the assassination of Dr. Tiller (June 11) wasexcellent.I appreciate that the writer avoided the phrase "late-termabortion."

Attorney-General Amos Wako has defended a 100 per cent salary increase for constitutional office holders, saying it was "long overdue".

STRIKING health workers have been given an ultimatum to report for work by Monday, failure to which they should consider themselves fired for staying away without authority for more than 10 days.

Attorney General Amos Wako has defended the 100 percent salary increment awarded to constitutional office holders saying it was 'long overdue'.

The African National Congress and Cosatu in KwaZulu-Natal have released a press release condemning doctors for their "unprofessional" strike action in the province.

THE Junior Doctors' Association said yesterday it was unhappy with the new pay offer for state doctors made by the government on Wednesday, and it was challenging the Department of Health to a debate to hear how doctors felt about