California Agriculture Secretary Arthur Kawamura, confirmed here on Monday that he is visiting Cuba on an exploratory mission to promote the sale of products from this state in the western United States.

The Australian federal government has shown itself to be powerless to control the big banks and corporations. These huge institutions have thumbed their noses at the timid words of the Federal Treasurer.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proposed Wednesday the establishment of a regional integration mechanism to meet food consumption needs of Latin America.

The year 2008 began with utter market chaos in which New York crude oil futures hit a record high and stock prices in the United States and Japan plunged partly due to the soaring oil prices.

Thus far in the campaign for the Presidential nomination, the media has, as usual, been focusing on the personalities of the various candidates, their hairstyles and their “experience” or lack of it, and of course any bickering they can foment between the candidates.

According to the neo-conservatives of the United States, the new American dream seemed a reality. Money would lose its value. What was important would be credit. "Yours with no money down," "Buy a car and your home appliances now, and pay for them in five years."

First, let us turn to the current state of the Canadian economy which, according to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and most Bay Street analysts and sycophants, is humming along just fine.

City Council of Atlanta today approved two bills offered by Councilwoman Felicia Moore, District 9, to codify their oversight role in the Atlanta Housing Authority’s mass eviction and demolition plans for all remaining public housing.

While the race for the Democratic nomination for president has just begun, it's clear that the people, many of whom are first time participants in the process, are hungering for change and to put their mark on this election.

On December 9, 2007, in a move that went relatively unnoticed in India, seven South American countries signed an agreement that could have important implications for the dominance asserted by the IMF and World Bank in developing countries.

Sen. Barack Obama received a huge boost one day after finishing slightly behind Sen. Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary when three important union endorsements went his way.

Defying the polls and the media hype, Sen. Hillary Clinton defeated Sen. Barack Obama by three points last night in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. John Edwards came in a distant third, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Gov. Bill Richardson rounded out the pack.

It seems like yesterday that 15,000 working family voters crowded into Chicago’s Soldier Field to ask questions and hear what the seven major Democratic presidential candidates had to say about jobs, health care, workers’ rights, the war in Iraq and more.

In the buildup to the 2008 elections, the right-wing Republicans have decided to make immigrants the scapegoat for the failure of the Bush administration and the shortcomings of the capitalist system.

Unemployment worsened to 5 percent—sinking a whopping three-tenths of percentage point, from 4.7 percent in November, the largest single jump since the slowdown following Sept. 11, 2001.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said here on Monday that China attaches great importance to sustainable development and will take a series of measures to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

Corn producers predicted hunger and social disaster in Mexico"s poorest sectors, due to the lifting of tariffs on corn imports from the United States and Canada, by virtue of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Though actions blocking imports of subsidized US grains ended Wednesday, rejection of the North American Free Trade Agreement keeps growing in Mexico.

The central goal of the United States is control of the planet, power to install governments subservient to its demands, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, the power to inflict on peoples everywhere “free market” corporate capitalism.

Social class is usually treated as though it doesn't exist. But for working families struggling without good jobs or adequate pay, who lack health care or decent housing, the systemic economic divisions that determine their life chances.