London: 100,000 rally for peace
OVER 100,000 people took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.
United For Peace & Justice: Cease-Fire Now! Emergency Week of Action, Aug. 7-11
During the week of Aug. 7-11, while Members of Congress are home on recess, organize local pressure on your Representatives and Senators to demand an end to support for Israel's human rights violations, an immediate cease-fire, a just peace, and the end of weapons deliveries to Israel.
The Fidel Castro That I Know
His fondness for words. His power of seduction. He hunts for a problem wherever it is. The impelling force of inspiration is befits his style. The breadth of his tastes is very well reflected in his books. He gave up his cigars so as to have the moral authority to fight smoking. He likes to prepare recipes with a sort of scientific fervor. He keeps in excellent shape through several hours of daily exercise and frequent swimming. Invincible patience. Strict discipline. He's drawn toward the unexpected by the force of his imagination. Learning to work is as important as learning to rest.
Israel itself 'pushing up' reputation of Hezbollah
The support rate of Hezbollah has reached as high as 86.9 percent, more than 70 percent of residents in Lebanon support Hezbollah's assaults against Israel patrol forces, and 63.3 percent of the people consider it impossible for the Israeli army to defeat Hezbollah, according to an opinion poll conducted by Beirut Centere for Research and Information among various religious factions in Lebanon in late July. At the early stage of Israel-Lebanon conflict, however, many Lebanese, the Christians and Suni Muslims in particular, had reservations about the actions of Hezbollah.
“The Constitution in Crisis” – preview upcoming House Judiciary Report
Ranking member of the House Judiciary Cmte. John Conyers and his staff are assembling a blistering followup to last year’s report “The Constitution in Crisis.” Though the Administration’s power grab has met some effective resistance in 2006, Conyers warns in his preview report that “the unfortunate reality is we are a long way from being out of the constitutional woods under the dangerous combination of an imperial Bush presidency and a compliant GOP Congress.”
$2.10 for Minimum Wage Workers, Billions for the Ultra-Rich
If anyone ever doubted that the Republican Party is the party of the rich, working tirelessly to make themselves richer off the labor of American workers, those doubts were erased as Republicans moved into action in the final days of the Congressional debate over the federal minimum wage.
Plan Bush
The dissolution of the Soviet Union associated with the end of Cold War hostility may explain how a small, South Florida clique gained inordinate power in relation to a vast Federal government bureaucracy. Since then, US relations with Cuba have been captive to increased restrictions and unequal terms. While the rest of the world enjoys travel, trade and cultural ties, U.S. policy remains aloof, disdainful and perplexed. Why can’t neighbors only 90 miles away be friends?
Middle East dream of Rice turns sour
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned from the Middle East almost empty-handed. The Israeli air strike at Qana village in south Lebanon blasted a hole in the American reputation, and plunged the White House into extreme isolation as during the Iraqi war.
Prime Minister out of step again
LONDON -- The government is out of step with public opinion over the need to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and to end the suffering of the Lebanese people.
South African Communist Activism and the Building of a Progressive Women’s Movement: Celebrating 50
The weekend of 29-30 July 2006 marked the culmination of the SACP’s month-long 85th anniversary celebrations. The highlight of our anniversary activities were the Red Saturday demand for a once-off amnesty for all that are blacklisted by the faceless Credit Bureaux, the holding of our anniversary gala dinner, addressed by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Cde Alec Erwin, and the holding of the national rally in Pietermaritzburg.
