The latest "employment" figures in the USA expose the lie of the economic recovery. By Shane Jones published in the latest issue of the US
Socialist Appeal.
Bush's new plan for immigration
"reform" will benefit only the ruling classes of the US and Latin
America, Mexico in particular. Working people will only see their
conditions of life further deteriorate while big business pockets big profits.
On December 23, 2003 the US government officially acknowledged the outbreak of
BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in a herd of cattle in the state of
Washington.This is officially the first case of mad cow in the US, but is in
reality the second case of an outbreak in the integrated Canadian and US cattle
industry. The farming and cattle crisis is at root a reflection of the
crisis of capitalism worldwide and a result of "globalization".