The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism is an important collection of essays on Italian American working-class history. Generally perceived as conservative, Italian Americans have a lengthy and influential record of radical working-class activity.

Chronic under-funding of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), insufficient staffing levels, poor compensation and mandatory overtime are just a few of the issues causing a patient care crisis within the VA.

After he had an article published in Collier’s magazine, Philip Bonosky returned to Duquesne, Pennsylvania, the steel town where he had grown up.

Rarely have U.S.-Mexican relations received the sort of public scrutiny that the currently raging immigration debate is now attracting.

Unite for change - let's turn our country around! The times are urgent and we must act...We have a foreign policy that is foreign to our core values, and domestic policies wreaking havoc at home. It's time for a change.

Hunger strikers and supporters, two of them in wheelchairs, headed a march of 5000 people in San Francisco, protesting bills in the US Congress which would criminalize immigrant status and violate the rights of immigrants.

“Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama and the Dominican Republic behaved generously with Cuba, even when four Cubans tried to place some signs,” the leader of the Revolution reminded the audience.

In the face of a sweeping debt and budgetary crisis currently afflicting the U.S. economy, the passage of the FY 2006 budget witnessed a brutal bloodletting of vital domestic programs from education and child welfare to Medicaid.

The WorkChoices Act and the accompanying 400 plus pages of regulations criminalise legitimate trade union activity. They criminalise workers, union officials and trade unions for merely taking industrial action to defend their interests.

When attending the radio-TV roundtable broadcast Monday, Farrakhan rejected George W. Bush’s warmongering policy... "The Cuban Revolution must be defended, as this is one of the richest nations regarding human nature and development,"

The Iranian nuclear issue has come up for discussion at the U.N. Security Council which is capable of imposing sanctions. A serious effort is needed to solve the question peacefully and diplomatically.

Here is another in our series of book previews (reviews of reviews) on important new works. If anyone is inspired to write a full review of one these works (800 words) please contact us at pabooks@politicalaffairs.net.

Researchers found that chronic poverty and food insecurity forced more than 70 percent of the region's children to work to help support their families; almost 40 percent suffered chronic malnutrition

It's March 27th, my son's due date, but it looks like he may be late being born.  Maybe he's heard what it's like out here.  I may have had C-Span a little loud during Bush's last press conference.

"The dream," John Lennon once said of 60s idealism, "is over." These were the words that came to me late one evening, sitting at my desk, in the glow of a computer screen, a glass of red wine at one hand, a spiral ringed notebook and pen at the other.

20,000 participants are expected to attend Atlanta's upcoming, first-ever United States Social Forum (USSF) in late June 2007.

In the fall of 2004, just after Central Oregon Jobs with Justice formed, members wanted to do something about Wal-Mart.

President Bush’s 2007 budget that was released last month includes significant cuts in housing assistance. The new budget for the Housing Choice Voucher Program underfunds 70 percent of the state and municipal housing agencies that oversee the program.

The resolution called on international organizations and world governments not to recognize Israel's unilateral solutions or measures, or deal with any guarantees or promises that would undermine the Palestinian people's legitimate rights...

Taylor is wanted by a UN-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone that has charged him with 17 counts of war crimes in that country’s civil war.