By SYLVIA WEINSTEIN The Southern Poverty Law Center, a liberal civil rights group in Birmingham, Ala., has listed the Nation of Islam (NOI) as a hate group along with 474 others in this country. The SPLC, which began its "hate lists" in 1981, has been a respected group that provided a useful service in revealing … Continue reading Who’s a Hate Group?
Month: July 1998
The KGO-TV Report: A Case Study in Irresponsible Journalism
By C. CLARK KISSINGER and LEONARD WEINGLASS Television news programs can provide us with valuable exposés and special reports that bring insight to the public. But with that special capability also comes the potential for abuse and deliberate misinformation. This paper will detail just such an abuse by KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in the San … Continue reading The KGO-TV Report: A Case Study in Irresponsible Journalism
New York Times Ad and ABC-TV Attack Mumia Abu-Jamal
By JEFF MACKLER An $85,000 full-page unsigned ad calling for the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal appeared on the back page of the Sunday, June 14, 1998, New York Times, "Week in Review" section. Paid for by "Justice For P/O Daniel Faulkner, Inc.(Faulkner is the Philadelphia police officer Mumia Abu-Jamal is falsely accused of murdering), the … Continue reading New York Times Ad and ABC-TV Attack Mumia Abu-Jamal
Phone Workers Strike Ignites Huge Protests, Mass Upsurge in Puerto Rico
By GERRY FOLEY A major social and political confrontation has taken shape in Puerto Rico. Since June 17, telephone workers have been on an all-out strike to oppose the sale of the state-owned telephone company to a U.S. trust. The scheme is a pet project of Gov. Pedro Rossello. The telephone workers are being supported … Continue reading Phone Workers Strike Ignites Huge Protests, Mass Upsurge in Puerto Rico
Kosovo: U.S., NATO Oppose Autonomy for Ethnic Albanians
By GERRY FOLEY It has become clear that the Serbian Stalinist demagogue Slobodan Milosevic has launched a full-scale war against the Albanian people of Kosovo. This is now his third major attempt, after the invasions of Croatia and Bosnia, to consolidate Serbian chauvinist rule by ethnic cleansing. Massive Serbian military forces were sent into Kosovo … Continue reading Kosovo: U.S., NATO Oppose Autonomy for Ethnic Albanians
Revolt Spreads in Indonesia
By GERRY FOLEY Since the Indonesian dictatorship retreated on May 21, by changing the formal head of state, the wave of rebellion throughout the archipelago has continued to rise. But the military is still trying to keep the lid on. A huge military force was sent to the campus of the University of Indonesia in … Continue reading Revolt Spreads in Indonesia
BOOK REVIEW: Which Way for China?
By PAUL SIEGEL Maurice Meisner, ''The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry Into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994." New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. 544 pp. $30. The year 1996 witnessed the publication of two books that sought to give a Marxist analysis of Chinese society today, Robert Weil's "Red Cat, White Cat," which was … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Which Way for China?
China and the Global Economy
By NAT WEINSTEIN Ever since the collapse of Stalinism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the capitalist world has been in a euphoric state. But like everything in this world, appearances are often deceiving. It is beginning to dawn on American and world imperialism that rather than expanding its world markets, the Stalinist bureaucracies' … Continue reading China and the Global Economy
Asian Crisis Upending Global Applecarts
By NAT WEINSTEIN Unusually candid commentaries on the falling value of the yen, and what it tells about the depth of the economic crisis in Japan and Southeast Asia, appeared almost daily in the mass media last month. It reflects a growing uncertainty among the world's capitalists about the future of their economic system. It … Continue reading Asian Crisis Upending Global Applecarts
Profits Vs. The Planet: Race for Profits is Destroying Oceans
By ROLAND SHEPPARD Last month, President Clinton spoke at the National Oceans Conference held in Monterey, Calif. Although Clinton did a lot of posturing about the growing crisis in the world's oceans, he did not clearly address the nature and extent of the crisis. I recently read a paper titled "State of the Oceans1996," by … Continue reading Profits Vs. The Planet: Race for Profits is Destroying Oceans
On the UAW Picket Line in Flint: ‘This is a War with General Motors for Job Security’
By MARK HARRIS FLINT, Mich. -- When you drive into Flint, Michigan, on Interstate 69, the first notice of the town's unique history comes when you see the signs for "UAW Freeway," as the stretch of interchange that wraps around the town is called. I was looking for the General Motors (GM) plants where locals … Continue reading On the UAW Picket Line in Flint: ‘This is a War with General Motors for Job Security’
Flint UAW Strikers Remember Their History and are Armed!
By NAT WEINSTEIN The strike by two United Auto Workers (UAW) locals in Flint is on its way to shutting down all General Motors (GM) plants in the US and much of Canada in response to the company's spending billions of dollars on factories in developing countries and defaulting on its promise to invest in … Continue reading Flint UAW Strikers Remember Their History and are Armed!