(Statement of the Internationalist Workers' Group)

515 workers have been on strike since June 18, 2002 at the Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, a small mining town of 27,000 located 400 miles north of Montreal.

In Internationalist Notes #7 (old Canada only series), we published an item entitled Beryllium Alert! on the very real threat of deadly berylliosis at the Horne smelter in

Nearly 2200 workers have been locked-out since May 2002 by Vidéotron, a Quebec-based telecommunications company.

Three working class militants associated with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) are on trial for incidents surrounding the June 15, 2000 March on Queen's Park in Toronto.

East Timor, hailed as the first democracy of the millennium, and established with the aid of the US state, with the assistance of the Australian regional satrap as the local gendarme has shown it&#

Over 2000 Mexican workers have died trying to illegally cross the US border since 1995. That amounts to one death for every mile or one death every 1.4 days.

In _the Progressive_ Magazine, Faleh A. Jabar puts forward the view that the Ba'ath Party regime in Iraq should be replaced by a secular democratic government.