The Political Science Students’ Associations (PSSA) will be showing “The Grapes of Wrath” this Thursday evening at 7:00pm in Tilley 28 on the UNB campus. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Donations are also welcome!

Thousands of miners strike for pay increase; Management threaten to nurse lockout; Power workers oppose privatisation; Indian textile workers strike over bonus; Pakistani health employees protest over jobs; Female golf caddies win reinstatement; Bank workers demand improved wages and conditions; New Zealand bank staff strike over pay; New Zealand mine workers hold national strike; Auckland bus drivers continue action; Teachers to strike over non-payment of salaries; Fiji garment factory closures throw thousands out of work.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - New CCPA report makes the case against more corporate tax cuts
–If anyone is looking for sound economic reasons to reject the proposed corporate tax cuts then have a look at this report from Policy Alternatives.

Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i ))) MayDay
–MayDay is approaching.

CBC Ottawa - Flags half-mast for fallen workers
–Yesterday was the Day of Mourning for Fallen workers. Coming up is Mayday… a day of solidarity with workers.

ZNet |Labor | ‘Alternative’ Media Quietly Sells Out to Whole Foods Market
–Bullying the media over union voices. This is the reason that independent media needs to exist.

rabble columns: Does television turn you off? by Rick Salutin
–An article about the terrible stuff on TV and why it is shoved on us with an unrelenting zeal by the press. The same companies that own the news own the TV stations is the short answer from me… this is fitting since Bush’s address to the US was cut short for the “Simple Life”.

rabble.ca - in his own words: Is there still a dream?
–The answer is yes there is a dream but it does not exist within the minds of the heads of state. They are too busy trying to open up markets and feed the machine.

rabble news - A new election demands a new analogy: by Scott Piatkowski
–A look at what a new election will bring. The Conservatives are going to send us to the polls… all I can say is that the people should vote NDP if they are upset at the Liberals… not Conservative.

RIGHTS-U.S.: One Year Later, Abu Ghraib Scandal Seen as ‘Tip of Iceberg’
–Torture still not being dealt with in the US.

News: Flat tax revolution sweeps in from Eastern Europe
–Remember that Economist Mag story that I linked about flat tax? Well there are some people that obviously really think that it is a good idea in Europe. Take a read of this. Here is the story from the Economist. Flat taxes are a really bad idea for the general public… they are a dream from capitalists.

News: Blair’s spectacular U-turn on legal advice leaves unanswered questions
–The Independent takes a look at the revealed documents that Blair had going into the war. Once again the press is lead down the wrong way. The question here is : Is the war illegal? Not did the government think up some wacky ways to say that it wasn’t!

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Global warming rate discovered
–This is not really science but I thought it was interesting. The scientists in Science Mag have discovered the “real” rate of warming of the earth. The point here is that the world is really warming and that the earth is doomed unless we do something to change the way we are consuming the resources on this planet.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Incoming cloud forces Bush into safe bunker
–Yes the super high tech US defence department mistook a cloud for an attack on the US. Don’t you feel safe with the same system protecting them from enemy missiles? It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US soldier to be executed
–What do you expect to happen when you train people to be killers?

3 networks cut off President Bush before end of his news conference
–And they wonder why the US is in such a bad state?

CBC News: Election would doom Atlantic Accord: NDP
–Say goodbye to all those Liberal promises (not as if they were going to keep them anyway). If there is an election all the negotiation that have happened over the last year are pretty much non-existent.

Economic Freedom: Democratizing Work In The 21st Century
–We need democracy in the workplace. The only way we are going to get it is to change the system.

Mr. Harper Friend of the Working Man
–The title is a joke… just incase you were wondering. This article goes into a little detail over Harper and how the above statement is laughable beyond reason.

Media Advisory: Workers Day of Mourning
–It is international Day of Mourning for those workers who have lost their lives at work. Collective bargaining is the only way for the workers to bring their concerns to the forefront.

Wage cuts and contracting out of health support jobs harming workers and health care system: reports
–Policy Alternatives takes a look at BC Healthcare. BC is in a bad way thanks to freemarket forces acting on the Healthcare system.

Harper: the Grim Reaper of Canadian politics
–Many names come to mind when Harper is mentioned. I can tell you that none of them are good. It is a shame that the media is so blindly reporting what is going on in the Canadian political system right now. We need more analysis of what the parties are promising and saying. Longterm predictions of the different outcomes.

NDP leader criticizes Martin for tax-cut ‘game’, day after reaching deal
–The NDP are acting surprised that the Liberals are trying to play both sides. The NDP should stick it to them and call them on the changes. Their economists know that the Liberals cannot pay what they say. The people should not be fooled into thinking that the Liberals are for the people.

Scientists call for urgent action to save Atlantic tuna
–No more tuna? Can you imagine a world with no more tuna? Something needs to be done to control the exploitation of Atlantic tuna.

Iraq insurgency gathers pace
–So much for winning that war in Iraq quickly. The US needs to get out of there and let the Iraqi people make their democracy…

Blow to Bush as Bolton panel widens its inquiry
–Bye, bye Bolton. This guy is the last person that the world wants as the US ambassador to the UN.

Darfur: Guardian Specical Collection
–Have a read about the nasty things that are going on in Darfur.

Full Iraq legal advice released
–NeoLabour is coming under increased attack. It turns out that the government is not being totally honest when it came to the decision to go to war in Iraq. What a shock!

Hydro One talks break off
–This could be bad. The union at the power utility in Ontario has walked out of the talks. I do not care what the propaganda coming from the provincial government says, you cannot keep the power going if the workers are not on the job. It is going to be lights out for the cities if anything happens.

Bus deal for UNB students breaks down
–I cannot understand a city that denies movement to the student population. The students provide economic stability to Fredericton… where’s the love?

Eczema ointments may carry cancer risk: Health Canada
–You cannot trust anything that you get at the drug store these days. What happened to testing and why is it that we hear all our news from the US FDA? Canada should be looking into all these things as well.

Business groups slam Liberal-NDP deal
–Forget the idea that we live in a democracy. These are the people with all the power. Just after Liberals reveal that they have a deal with the NDP the business community reacts and the Liberals have to move back to the right. Is there any question who the Liberals represent anymore? The Liberals have now said that the country can have both social programmes and tax cuts for businesses. I would love to see that math that counts dollars twice.

Women’s advancement in corporate Canada ‘disturbingly slow’
–Still the glass ceiling remains. This problem is not going to go away. The system is the problem. In a system where women have to become “men” to get into positions of power it is not a wonder that more women are getting through… Although, I am not sure what difference the it makes whether it is a woman or a man that is oppressing the people as Thatcher did it just as good as any man could.

U.S. ambassador to Canada named
–The US has appointed a “longtime family friend” of the Bush’s to be ambassador to Canada. I would have thought anything to be better than Cellucci… I maybe mistaken. It is becoming a monarchy in the US.

Injunction limits protests of Nfld. crabbers
–The banning of protests… The Newfoundland government will go to no ends.