Democratic Rights

The following is the reprinting of the second press release we have received from the struggling bauxite workers in Guyana.

PHILADELPHIA- On Tuesday, August 24, the US government gave another example of its desperation in the face of popular resistance with the conviction of Diop Olugbala in Philadelphia.

President Obama has recently pulled approximately 90,000 US troops out of the Republic of Iraq, leaving about 50,000 there.

The on-again-off-again presidential candidacy of music star Wyclef Jean is a distraction for Haiti.

"We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It’s our memory banks.” - Abbey Lincoln.

Editor’s note: The following is a Press Release submitted to Uhuru News by the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union of a meeting recently held in London, England. The meeting was to highlight the abrogation of worker’s rights to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining, in an attempt to win international solidarity from the trade unions and organizations present.

A rally to show unity with the struggle to free Diop Olugbala is planned for Monday, August 23, 2010, at 4-7pm at North Broad...

From 1989 to 1997, Charles Taylor, who escaped mysteriously from a U.S. prison, was the leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), a rebel group that fought in Liberia to overthrow the government of Samuel K. Doe.

Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now, imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But, it’s no illusion; this is a fact.