BY BARRY SHEPPARD& CAROLINE LUND
We met Heinrich Fleischer by accident, at a retirement home in Minneapolis while visiting Caroline's father. Fleischer was born in Germany in 1912, where he studied to be an organist. His lifelong profession was as
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BY NORM DIXON & BARRY SHEPPARD Even as the world's corporate media was declaring the end of the Iraq war, on April 12 as many as 2 million people mobilised across the globe to oppose the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. In
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OAKLAND, California — Police in full riot gear attacked a peaceful anti-war picket line at the docks here on April 7. The cops shot protesters and wharfies, who were nearby, with 2.5-centimetre diameter wooden dowels that left
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SAN FRANCISCO — The November 5 elections in the United States saw modest gains for the Republican Party, which now controls both houses of Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). However, the Congress remains
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Battle of Seattle, the days of protest in December against the World Trade Organisation, has focused many people's minds on global inequality and "corporate capitalism" and inspired many to join the struggle
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The 'Vietnam syndrome' is alive and wellThe end of the air war against Yugoslavia was met by a subdued response from the US people. There was no feeling of celebration as there was when the 1991 Gulf War ended. The Gulf War was
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An article in the latest Scientific American, "Biological Warfare Against Crops", reveals that the US developed weapons that can only be described as weapons of mass destruction. The article states: "The US developed a number of
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When Washington led NATO into the war against Serbia, President Bill Clinton at first claimed that the Serbian people were not the target. After the first Serbian civilian casualties, he icily commented that he regretted the
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For two weeks in the wake of the police's February 4 shooting of Ahmed Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant in New York, daily protests kept the spotlight on police terror against blacks and Hispanics. A mass civil disobedience
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Taking a break from the daily bombing of Iraq, US-led NATO forces are escalating the bombing of Yugoslavia, threatening a wider war. This underscores the determination of the US ruling class to build up its already massive
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Five workers atop a 100-foot oil tower were engulfed in flames at the Tosco refinery in Martinez in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 23. One worker was killed outright, three died after days of acute agony and another is in
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Last September, Anthony Porter was scheduled to die. He had been on death row since 1983, and his time had come. Today he is free. His case is another in a growing list that demonstrates how the death penalty in the US comes down