September

Exchange, Cooperation and Development

Following is the full text of Beijing Declaration issued in Beijing on September 5, 2004 at the closing ceremony of the Third International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

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Open Letter to Bush

I am so confused. Where exactly do you stand on the issue of Iraq? You, your Dad, Rummy, Condi, Colin, and Wolfie -- you have all changed your minds so many times, I am out of breath just trying to keep up with you! Which of these 10 positions that you, your family and your cabinet have taken over the years represents your CURRENT thinking?

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'Victims of Communism'

I feel sorry for them, as I am sure you do, too. I mean, there they are, swarming all over the former Soviet Union, expending great efforts to teach the people there the ways of capitalism and it seems the people are not grateful. I am talking about the US and EU-trained 'aid workers' who are trying to 'help' the people of the various former Soviet Republics.

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Al-Tijani Al-Tayeb: A revolutionary path in Sudan

'Nothing prepares you for the actual moment you step into jail!' Al-Tijani Al-Tayeb, leader of the Sudanese Communist Party, cocks an ear towards the kitchen of his Nasr City apartment, as his wife, Fatheya, emerges bearing cups of delicious Kenyan tea. Still to this day, she is actively involved with the women's wing of the Sudanese Communist Party.

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The Coming Economic Crises

Recently Louis Uchitelle presented an economic analysis of the US deficit (NYT 'Business Day' 9-18-04). Marxists should take note of a possible sudden collapse of the US economy that may well threaten the existence of the international capitalist system. Uchitelle talked with C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics, who thinks the deficit is a 'disaster in the making.'

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Bush's 'Job-friendly' Economy isn't Worker Friendly

Tens of millions of workers have fought to survive over the last 3 1/2 years of the anti-worker extremism of the Bush administration. They suffered under rich tax cuts, budget cuts, stripped safety and health protections, gutted wage protections and union organizing rights, severe repression of civil liberties, attacks on civil rights, dangerous environmental policies, and an endless illegal war that has seen hundreds of thousands of working families torn apart.

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Hold the Booyah: SportsCenter Out of the Middle East!

Has it come to this? Did SportsCenter really broadcasting this week from Kuwait? Are we inhaling our nightly dose of baseball, banter and 'booyah' from a set designed by the US Armed Forces? Is the SportsCenter stage really designed to look like a bunker, replete with camouflage netting, anchors' desks made out of sandbags and a Bradley tank?

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What Democracy Means

An old socialist once said that American liberals are more sympathetic to socialism as an idea the further it is away from home. The Bush administration and the Republican party, at least verbally, seem to have the same attitude toward democracy as an idea, advocating its expansion abroad while they do everything in their power to restrict it at home.

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The Republican Campaign to Suppress the Black Vote – A Racist Conspiracy

The right to vote is fundamental to any real democracy. The African American people from slavery to today have had to wage a hard, bitter and bloody struggle for this right: it is therefore a sacred and basic part of achieving full democracy and equality for all and an important gauge of the strength of US democracy.

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