The House of Representatives this week passed the bipartisan Employee Free Choice Act by a vote of 241-185. The law would strengthen legal protections of workers against employer punishment and harassment when trying to organize a union.

The Bush administration’s drive to privatize government services and its push to reduce veterans’ benefits may be the cause of the disaster at Walter Reed Hospital.

The United Nations and NGOs have strongly condemned the continued apparent targeting of children in Iraq’s bloody sectarian violence.

A February 25 report in the New York Times on Venezuela's international arms purchases used selective information and an alarmist tone to suggest that Venezuela's military spending was a potential threat to regional stability.

What President Calderon is doing now differs little from what his predecessors did at the start of their terms. But the results are always the same – encouraging at first but then it all starts up again.

As Congress returns to the subject of immigration, the Bush administration has stepped up arrests and deportations of immigrants.

On February 21, workers and local residents took part in rallies, demonstrations, and representations around the country for the success of the 2007 Spring Struggle.

Canadian Communists returned to their roots on the Feb. 2-4 weekend, gathering near the University of Toronto for their 35th Central Convention.

An explanation of writer’s block may not be a good way to begin a political essay or to preface an exhortation to protest the infamy of the war on its fourth bloody anniversary. But the truth is the Iraq catastrophe has many of us peace activists despairing, almost to silence. The war, criminal from its inception, has gone on far too long and is increasingly painful and frustrating to write and talk about.

In a strongly worded statement issued this week, the left-wing Tudeh Party of Iran has reasserted its opposition to a new military adventure in the Middle East. Any intensification of military or political conflict in the region will be against the interests of the people of Iran, the Middle East region and global peace, it argues.

The Employee Free Choice Act is one of the most important pieces of legislation being considered by the new Congress, yet many people have probably never heard of it.

I am happy and honoured to send you my warmest wishes on International Women’s Day – my first one as Secretary-General of the United Nations. I hope you will all come to know me as your representative and ally in the years ahead.

Years back, an old and astute professor at the University of Washington ended a fascinating lecture to a small group of freshmen with the following contention: "Our country might find itself in a position that could force it to deprive its citizens from certain freedoms to preserve basic rights."

One of the characteristics of conservative thought throughout modern history has been to see the world as a collection of more or less independent, isolated, and incompatible compartments. In its discourse, this is simplified in a unique dividing line: God and the devil, us and them, the true men and the barbaric ones.

Two-pronged U.S. tactics of confrontation and engagement unfolded last week and described by some media as “turnabouts” in the strategy of containment of what Washington perceives as adverse regional roles in the Middle East, but in the Iraqi context and in historical perspective these tactics are revealed only as old diplomatic manoeuvres in the drawers of the State Department.

The United Way of Aiken County, South Carolina, has come under recent criticism for its support of the Bush Administration’s proposed new weapons-grade plutonium plant at a recent hearing.

A British newspaper is reporting that Iraq's government is set to enact legislation which will give transnational oil companies the “right” through “exploration contracts” to exploit Iraq's oil, the second largest reserves of all on earth, for the next 30 years.

All three nationalist movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina have practiced the same politics of ethnic cleansing during the war, although not with quite the same results. That is the basic reason why we think that this process of the court has been needless and politically harmful.

Did anyone from Greenpeace or Earth First! ever imagine that the world’s first environmental president would come from Venezuela? Many Greens might find such an idea ludicrous considering that the South American nation is one of the largest oil producing countries in the world and a major resource for heavy mineral and coal mining.

In the United States during the 1950s, Theodore W. Adorno was exploring the mental and social landscape favorable to implanting antidemocratic ideas.