African Americans and the 2004 Election
The United States was born from the struggles of the settlers for the right to have a say in their lives and their future. The Boston Tea Party in 1774 mobilized the citizenry around the slogan, 'no taxation without representation.' This is still the beacon call for today’s African American community and other segments of our multi-racial and multi-national country. It is imperative that the African American community be fully mobilized in this presidential year if Bush and his band of warmongers is to be defeated.
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Civil Society in Cuba? Indeed, and Socialist!
The process of revolutionary changes that the people of Cuba started since the triumphal events of 1959 provided a potential for solid, wide-ranging and representative citizens’ participation in all aspects of life. This type of civil society makes possible and guarantees the ways and means for direct participation by Cubans in debate, the submission of proposals and the adoption of decisions relating to all matters of interest to our nation, including its political life, economic development, foreign relations, distribution of wealth and the protection of national patrimony.
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Iraqi Trade Unions Speak Out Against Occupation
IRAQI trade unionist Abdullah Mushen demanded an end to the occupation and a 'sovereign and democratic Iraq' in central London on Thursday night.
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A Fiery Hell on Earth
For some time now, I have been searching for answers to a deeply perplexing question: Why is the United States promoting the spread of atomic bombs worldwide? By 'atomic bombs' I mean the kind that turned Hiroshima and Nagasaki into a fiery hell in 1945 -- A-bombs made from plutonium (Nagasaki) or 'enriched' uranium (Hiroshima).
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Bush Blocks Underprivileged Medical Students from Attending School in Cuba
It has now been just over four years since the first group of US students were sent off to Cuba as a part of a training program that was offered by Cuba's Ministry of Health (MINSAP). This was their addition to a school only for foreign nationals that was born out of the turmoil of Hurricanes George and Mitch in 1999 that devastated much of Latin America. At this writing, almost 100 students from the US are underway in their studies.
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Lenin Goes to Market
Two recent articles in Political Affairs indicate that more clarity is needed on the question of the socialist market economy. For example we read that 'The socialist market economy is designed for transition from an early capitalist or even pre-capitalist society and the focus is to create the prerequisites for socialism.' But an observer of the situation in China state to the contrary that 'China is already a socialist society.'
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Report on Venezuela's Trade Union Situation
The government of President Hugo Chávez was swept to power in Venezuela, an oil-rich country in the northernmost part of South America, through democratic elections in 1999. Chávez's government identified the major problem in the country as being the fact that the country's vast oil wealth was not being used to alleviate poverty, as 80% of the country's 24 million inhabitants continued to be impoverished.
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Who's the Real Enemy? Review of The Manchurian Candidate
If the original film insisted on portraying the People’s Republic of China, and communism generally, as the real enemy of America, our modern version offers another reality. This time the Manchurian candidate is the pawn, not of the Chinese, but of Manchurian Global, a powerful multinational corporation, which, as one character states, has in one way or another controlled much of the policy decisions of every president since Nixon.
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Iraq's Labor Upsurge Wins Support from U.S. Unions
Once the U.S. occupation of Iraq began over a year ago, Iraqi workers lost no time in reorganizing their country’s labor movement. Labor activity spread from Baghdad to the Kurdish north, with the center of the storm in the south, in the oil and electrical installations around Basra, and the port of Um Qasr.
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WE NEED HEALTH CARE -- ALL OF US!
What would you say to a health care system that provides for primary care physicians, specialists, prescription drugs, mental health care, drug treatment, long term care, and optical and dental care for everybody? That would be the Conyers bill H.R. 676. And it will cost most 95% of us less money than we are now paying. Who would pay more? The answer is easy--the guys who got the big Bush tax breaks.
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