Venezuela's Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro denied on Saturday that a Venezuelan lawyer, Moisés Maionica, who pleaded guilty to being an "unregistered foreign agent" in a Miami federal court, was acting on behalf of the Venezuelan government.

February is Black History Month. Communists have always emphasized the importance of the African American people to the struggles for basic social change in this country from Slavery to Civil Rights to today.

No Easy Victories is a remarkable and often insightful collection of essays and reflections, many of which have been penned by those who played leading roles in the dramatic story of how a conservative hegemon was compelled to retreat somewhat in its support for colonialism and apartheid.

Why federal Judge Marcia Cooke is trying to make President Bush’s baseless arrest, detention and charges of Jose Padilla look as if they are even remotely legitimate is beyond me.

Israel's national labour center Histadrut is giving full support to workers at Tel Aviv's Ibn Gvirol street branch of the international coffee roaster and restaurant franchiser Coffee Bean, where workers have been on strike since January 22.

In a protest organized by a coalition of left-wing movements, over 1,000 people from Israel demonstrated at the Erez border crossing on Saturday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the residents of Sderot, under the slogan: "Stop the siege on Gaza.

We heard the same old lies, the cheap applause lines, the idle boasting, and the empty rhetoric coming from Bush once again in his State of the Union Address. But this time it seemed more like a final curtain call of a washed up actor who nearly everyone now realizes never should have stepped foot on the stage.

For the past few decades, one of the major vehicles for extreme right ideas within US politics has been the Christian fundamentalist movement.

On February 10, a mayoral election will be held in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the Japanese and U.S. governments are planning to bring in aircraft from a U.S. aircraft carrier as part of the ongoing U.S. military realignment in Japan.

The Australian government has declared that it is going to wage war against inflation as their number 1 economic objective at the present time. The rate of inflation reached 3.6 percent in the most recent figures announced by the authorities and this is outside the "comfort zone" of the Reserve Bank.

On the heels of Bush's state of the union speech Jan. 28 in which he offered no serious new proposals for economic recovery or a change of course in Iraq, Senate Democrats are planning a huge confrontation with Bush on these issues.

Since 4th January millions of Indonesians have been watching their TVs, listening to the radio, reading newspapers and chatting on the street about their former president, Suharto, as he lay in bed in an unstable and critical condition.

United for Peace and Justice, the nation's largest antiwar coalition with 1,400 member groups, today announced plans for activities on the 5th anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.

Sam Webb talks about the question of democracy and the 2008 elections. What does the Communist Party USA say about democracy? What is the CPUSA's opinion of the 2008 elections? What difference will the 2008 elections make?

In his final state of the union address, which his handlers touted as his last big effort to reclaim his legacy, George W. Bush repeated the same tired phrases and hackneyed platitudes he has often advanced as deep thinking and serious policy in the past.

The Gaza Strip is the largest prison on earth. The breaking of the Rafah wall was an act of liberation. It proves that an inhuman policy is always a stupid policy: no power can stand up against a mass of people that has crossed the border of despair.

Economic turbulence largely due to credit market turmoil and rising oil prices could spur an increase in global unemployment by an estimated 5 million persons in 2008.

Enthusiastically hailed by some and greeted with pessimism by others, the climate-change plan revealed by the European Commission on January 23rd is dangerous for two reasons.

At least 60 people, mostly women and children, were killed and 280 wounded as a result of a massive blast followed by a suicide attack against a senior police official on 23 January in Mosul, the IRCS said.

Senator Obama won by 28-points over Senator Hillary Clinton with John Edwards receiving 18 percent of the vote in the South Carolina Democratic primary. And in his victory speech, Senator Obama continued to call for unity and action against those who believe that he is on mission impossible.