Revoking the visa of Swiss-Egyptian scholar Tariq Ramadan is emblematic of President Bush’s efforts to chill intellectual freedom and deny Americans their First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

Lt. Watada is to be court martialed for missing movement (article 87 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice) and multiple counts of “Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman” for his public opposition to the illegal and immoral occupation war in Iraq.

“The product is a nuclear bomb. They kill people like you and me,” Allison Peeler, a college-age volunteer with Carolina Peace, said, crying during an impassioned speech here at a public hearing on Bush’s plans for a new plutonium pits plant.

The economic war unleashed by the United States against Cuba, the longest and cruelest ever known, qualifies as an act of genocide and constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.

The international humanitarian organisation Norwegian Refugee Council has closed down its relief operations in Darfur, western Sudanese, a move it said will affect 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the troubled region.

On November 8, the United Nations General Assembly, for the 15th consecutive time and by overwhelming majority, passed a resolution condemning the U.S. blockade against Cuba and demanding that it be lifted.

The ambassador also informed participants about assistance provided by Switzerland government to Lao PDR, especially in the term of helping Laos access the World Trade Organisation (WTO) through providing technical assistance.

On November 7, in a horrifying confirmation of its official policy of state terrorism, the Israeli occupation army perpetrated a new massacre, this time against the civilian population of Beit Haroun in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 18 innocent people, many of them women and children, by Israeli artillery bombardment.

What a difference a day makes! Or to be more accurate, three days.

The overwhelming victory on November 7 by the Democratic party in capturing majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate left media commentators pondering how soon the aftershocks would hit Washington. We may now have the answer, from a surprising source: A lame-duck Republican legislator.

Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet, the withholding of aid, or the denial of freedom of movement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.