Throwing Stuff Over the White House Fence
On Wednesday, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Lennox Yearwood, and about 50 other activists for peace met up on the sidewalk in front of the White House. I brought along a box containing 6,000-some pages of names and comments: about 80,000 names with cities and states, about half of them with comments beside them.
200,000 people enjoy Akahata Festival
A total of 200,000 people from around the country took part in the Japanese Communist Party's 39th Akahata Festival held November 3-5 in Tokyo, and enjoyed its political, entertainment, cultural, and sports programs and events.
Bush dead in water
BELLICOSE US President George W Bush is dead in the water as a result of the US mid-term elections, which have been a disaster for his Republican party.
Philippines Communists Celebrate 76th Anniversary
Today, we look back at the role played by our Party in the 76 years since our Party's public proclamation at a massive demonstration of workers and peasants at Plaza Moriones, at the heart of Manila's working class district of Tondo.
Union Blasts Corporate Efforts to Block Chinese Labor Reform
US and European multinationals have been accused of double standards for adopting codes of conduct requiring their suppliers behave ethically on the one hand, while on the other lobbying against China’s proposed new labour laws.
Cuba Rejects Australian Amendment to UN Blockade Resolution
The proposed amendment presented by Australia to the draft resolution entitled 'Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Imposed by the United States of America against Cuba' is unacceptable to the Cuban people. The decision to present such amendment has resulted from the pressures of the Washington authorities to impact the overwhelming pattern of votes in favor of the draft resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly every year on the issue and which in 2006 rose to 182 countries.
Election 2006: An Ideological Sea Change?
After the Democratic congressional landslide of 2006, Republican pundits, including the president, have begun to spin their interpretation of the results wildly. The election was no repudiation of Republican ideology and policies, they claim.
Election 2006: A Referendum on the Iraq War
The November 7th election result was nothing short of stunning reversal of fortune for the most extreme sections of big business and the Republican right. It has created important breathing space and a new framework for struggle.
After six long years, it's almost safe to watch cable news again
After almost six years of flipping through news channels to watch Comedy Central, sports or a movie so I wouldn't become repulsed at the sight of Bush or some other arrogant republican gloating about their latest divisive, hypocritical tactic, I spent much of the wee hours on Wednesday morning glued to the tube.
West Bengal, India: Left Front Govt’s Industrialization Drive Will Continue Apace
THE anti-people and anti-development conspiracies of the Bengal opposition notwithstanding, the industrialization efforts of the state Left Front government shall continue with fervor. “We are determined not to allow the opportunistic elements and their patrons in the corporate media to frustrate the developmental initiative that has been set in motion,” said Bengal CPI(M) secretary Biman Basu.
