The month-long struggle against the Gaullist government’s “First Job Contract” has brought to the fore the fundamental class and political issues facing workers and young people not only in France, but across Europe and internationally.
The needs of youth and workers—decent-paying and secure jobs, education, health care, a future without war or repression—are in irreconcilable conflict with the interests of a financial elite who represent a failed political and economic system. This oligarchy of wealth and power is determined to make the working class pay for the crisis of the capitalist system.

"His trademark aggressiveness helped trigger his downfall, when he led a drive to redraw Texas' congressional district boundaries to increase the number of seats in GOP hands." The gambit succeeded, but DeLay was soon caught up in an investigation involving the use of corporate funds in the campaigns of legislators who had participated in the redistricting."

today, april 4 2004 5pm
columbia college
1104 S. Wabash
Room:504

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The National Coordination Sets out a Strategy for a Week of Actions

Open University of the Left presents on Thursday April 6, 7:00 PM at In These Times 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. Dr. Basil Bradlow from Physicians for a National Health Program

WASHINGTON, Apr 3 (IPS) - Last week's attack by U.S.-led Iraqi paramilitary forces on a building that Shiite leaders claim was a mosque may have marked the beginning of a new stage of U.S. policy in which Iraqi forces are used to carry out military operations against Shiite militia forces -- especially those loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr.

Speaking the Unspeakable: Is the Bush Administration Guilty of War Crimes?
Ray McGovern
7 PM, Thursday, April 13
Holt Memorial Chapel, Lake Forest College,
555 N. Sheridan, Lake Forest, IL

. . . . War is Peace . . . . Ignorance is Strength . . . . From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn’t, Orwell Rolls In His Grave moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered and unreported in the mainstream media: Are Americans being given the information a democracy needs to survive? . . . Or have we been electronically lobotomized? Has the frenzy for media consolidation led to a dangerous irony where in an era of more news sources the majority of the population has actually become less informed? Orwell Rolls In His Grave reminds us . . . 1984 is no longer a date in the future!