More than 125 state and local labor leaders have urged presidents of Change to Win unions to drop a plan that threatens to shred union movement unity in states and communities.

A bill establishing a government-run Canadian style single-payer health care system for the U.S., built on Medicare, is gaining union backers.

It was wonderful to behold tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to demand an end to the genocide in Darfur, in the western Sudan.

For poor people, the answer is clear: Essentially none of this wealth has come their way. Adjusted for inflation, the tenth percentile of after-tax family income is almost exactly the same today as it was in 1979...

On May Day immigrants and their supporters filled the streets of Los Angeles twice in one day -- a huge march downtown, and another through the Wilshire district's Miracle Mile.

While acting sooner rather than later will help reduce the size of the eventual adjustments, the trustees’ report indicates that Social Security does not face a deep structural crisis requiring drastic changes.

The congress took place in an optimistic mood caused by the marvellous result achieved in the national elections in September 2005, the successful start of work of the 53 member strong parliamentary group "The Left."

Residents fear a rerun of a rebel dawn attack on the capital last month that left 300 dead and injured... In the last national election in June 2005 just 30 percent of Chadians turned out to vote.

Local journalists point to the recent jailing of journalists in the northern Kurdish region. There on 1 May, a court jailed two newspaper editors who recently published stories critical of the regional government in local newspapers.

We congratulate the people of the Solomon Islands and those opposition parliamentarians who brought about the defeat of a corrupt government which was supported by foreign money and foreign military and police forces.

“This century marks the end of US imperialism and the birth of our new and great homeland, free and united, where all of us will be able to live with the most happiness possible,”

The progressive community can breathe a little easier with the roll back, for the time being, of the anti-evolutionary religious diehards who have recently caused so much trouble in Kansas and Pennsylvania.

36 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment.

Only a handful of unauthorized Lavalas candidates ran since the FL(Aristide’s Lavalas Family party) , along with the National Popular Party (PPN), officially boycotted the de facto and occupation-run elections, calling them “selections.”

In conducting this study, the human rights groups documented over "330 cases in which US military and civilian personnel are credibly alleged to have abused, tortured or killed detainees."

We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter. This idea is not original with me. It's been seen on bumper stickers for quite some time.

Conflict erupted in Darfur in February 2003 and fighting and refugees have repeatedly spilled into eastern Chad since. Darfur rebels say they took up arms over Khartoum’s discrimination and oppression of the region.

Activists, who have long campaigned against the state of emergency, say the government has historically used the emergency law to thwart political opposition rather than terrorism.

Bolivia's new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting U.S.-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation.

Francis Fukuyama is one of that growing band of pundits who are safely cloistered over their keyboards, who now reckon that perhaps the US-led invasion of Iraq was not such a good idea.