Filibuster Compromise: Activist Judges to Get a Vote
Right-wing religious groups that helped mobilize voters to continue the Republican Party’s ruling status in the last election are outraged over the Senate filibuster compromise related to Bush’s judicial nominations late last night.
Top Ten Reasons Why 'W' IS WRONG FOR WOMEN
Last year we learned the Bush Administration erased fact sheets about equal pay for women workers from federal government web sites. But George W. Bush can't erase his record.
India: One Year of the UPA Government
The people of India had voted for a government which upholds the secular principle, rejects the communal forces and charts a path of development which meets the needs of millions of people who were deprived of the benefits of growth during the six years of BJP rule. They wanted India to play an independent role in world affairs in line with our traditional non-aligned policy without giving into imperialist pressures.
Film Review: Arlington West
This brief film is a heart-felt tribute to the sacrifice, loss, grief, and the victims of a foreign policy based not on a love for humanity or democracy but on greed, the struggle for power and global domination, for capitalism and natural resources.
Students March To US Military Base in Ankara,Turkey
On May 6, university students from the Communist Party of Turkey and the Patriotic Front from all over Turkey held a demonstration in Ankara to commemorate Deniz Gezmis, Huseyin Inan and Yusuf Aslan, the three revolutionaries, who had been executed on May 6, 1972
Who Liberated Europe?
Eight-and-a-half million Soviet soldiers fought against fascist Germany and imperialist Japan outside Soviet frontiers and fully and partially liberated 13 European and Asian counties with a total population of nearly 150 million people...The Soviet Union defeated the striking aggressive force of imperialism at that time and thereby made the decisive contribution to the consolidation of peace on earth and ensured the right of peoples to decide their own fate.
Venezuela: Building the socialism of the twenty-first century
Chávez in his(May Day) speech said that the working class must take its place in the leadership of the revolution. Capitalism, he said, is incompatible with the full development of democracy envisaged in the constitution; we must build “the socialism of the twenty-first century.”
Massacre in Colombian Peace Community
The Colombian conflict is rooted in social inequalities. Between 60 and 68 percent of the population are currently living at or below the poverty line.... The SOA-style repression that is killing thousands every year is supposed to maintain the status quo—to keep the rich powerful and the poor silent.
Red, White, and Without a Clue
Thanks to a recent confluence of events involving our interaction with the Muslim world, it is clear that “they” do hate us for what we stand for. Unfortunately, what we stand for is not freedom, democracy, nor any other high-minded ideal. Rather, we stand for arrogance, barbarism, and violence.
Philippines: The War Against the People
Scholars Denounce Killings in the Philippines and Calls for a World-Wide Action
