A powerful movement for peace, for civil rights, for social justice is unfolding, with the primary task of Changing Congress in 2006... The question is, can the fear factor smokescreen associated with the war on terrorism create a thick enough cover to maintain the corrupt Republican majority in the U.S. House and Senate?

In the years leading up to Haiti’s 2006 presidential and legislative elections, whose second round are now set for April 21, the International Republican Insitute (IRI) helped form and coach three coalitions of right wing and social-democratic parties...

As one of Washington’s strongest allies, Colombia holds a special diplomatic position in a region that is increasingly wary of U.S. intervention.

THE elections to West Bengal state assembly, this time, is receiving unprecedented level of attention not only inside the country, but even internationally.

In the recent years and in the course of disputes about Iran’s nuclear policies, the Tudeh Party of Iran has always stressed that peaceful use of nuclear energy is the indisputable right of Iran and all other countries of the world.

Malawi has an extremely low ratio of less than 2 doctors and 29 nurses per 100,000 people, with only 13 Malawian doctors working in the 27 district hospitals. "The main problem is that most of the doctors we sent for training in the UK remain there after completing their studies,"

Prime Minister Villepin poured fuel on the protest with his arrogant refusal to meet and discuss the draconian law, claiming it was essential to modernize France and make it competitive in “globalized markets.”

At the AFL-CIO Convention last year, delegates approved a resolution on the war in Iraq...We encourage everyone to read the full resolution to see where the AFL-CIO union movement stands on this painful issue.

The first of May is May Day, the real labor day, the commemoration of the Haymarket Massacre and the fight for an 8-hour day in Chicago – an American holiday celebrated everywhere except America.  But the first of May is two other things as well in more recent but already fading history. 

The Darfur conflict erupted in early 2003 when the rebels took up arms against the Sudanese government in Khartoum to end what they call the neglect and oppression of the inhabitants of Darfur, western Sudan.

The success of calls for international isolation was partly due to the role that was played by South Africans in exile. They worked tirelessly at raising the level of awareness of the international community to the atrocities being committed by the apartheid regime.

Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post.

Last week the Senate confirmed Randall Tobias as the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice also appointed Mr. Tobias to serve as the Director of Foreign Assistance, a newly created position that will oversee $19 billion in foreign aid.

The Montreal Convention's Article 7 gives the US no discretion. It must either extradite or prosecute Posada Carriles for 73 counts of first degree murder in relation to the downing of the airliner.

In the last five years under the Koizumi cabinet, poverty has increased and the social gap has widened; U.S. military bases in Japan have been strengthened; and Japan's Asia diplomacy is at a serious impasse.

A very important step has been made: we defeated Berlusconi. Now we intend to rule Italy towards a change and to help the rise of a new political subject of the alternative left in Italy.

Last fall, I noted that the cumulative weight of an increasingly unpopular war, Katrina, indictments, incompetence, corruption, scandals, cronyism, and deeply felt anxiety with energy costs and the economy had taken its toll on the standing of the Bush administration.

More than 600 union activists from some 30 unions, the state’s three dozen central labor councils and the Ohio AFL-CIO voted April 8 to restructure the state’s unions into a New Alliance.

Accompanied by Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque, the Haitian president-elect honored Cuban National Hero Jose Marti on Wednesday by laying a wreath on his monument in Havana.

Venezuelans commemorated the 4th anniversary of the April 11, 2002, coup d’etat, yesterday, with the unveiling of a monument to the victims at the Llaguno Bridge, one of the centers of the violence in 2002.