In a recent essay on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s advocacy for peace, titled "Vocation of Agony: A Personal Meditation on Dr. King's Legacy," Rev. Osagyefo Sekou elaborated a stirring call for deep moral change in America.

Strategy for a Black Agenda first came out in 1973. The book was and remains a fundamental contribution to the struggle. The issues that Henry Winston raised centered on the unity of the class and national questions.

For working people, the long-term trend in the US has been toward greater inequality in wages, less job security, fewer pensions, and fewer people with healthcare. All these long-term trends are being further aggravated by the economic crisis the country is currently going through. How does this crisis manifest itself?

So far the campaign has shown, to any independent, intellectually astute observer, that there is currently no such thing as a free election in this country. Since Mr. Putin was appointed #1 in the electoral list, all the government’s administrative resources, all the power structures and ministries, are being used on behalf of his party’s campaign.

I have opinions, God knows, on language. This statement of Lessing’s is ridiculous. What Marxism did was to liberate language for millions of workers the whole world over, and still does to this day.

“New Orleans: A Labor of Love,” is actually a public awareness campaign to get 5,000 volunteers into the Gulf Coast during 2008.

Our organization, the Free Burma Campaign, South Africa, is made up of exile Burmese activists in South Africa, along with native South African civil rights and former anti-apartheid activists.

The earth will find a new way to have a balance and nature will survive, but the question is what will be the impact on humanity? In other words, we are doing this to ourselves, and if we want to improve life for ourselves, we’d better change the way we operate.

It was rather curious, that when Mr. Bush met with then Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, he expressed surprise that there were Black people in Brazil.

Religious conflict, interlocking with economic and political disputes, vastly intensified their destructiveness. That was what led me to start working on this book, which came late in my career.

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.

This book is unusual, you might almost call it an orphan, in that it was originally intended to accompany a television documentary project on the Reconstruction period. That was one of the reasons we started out saying there needs to be a strong visual component.

I look at Central America in the 1980’s as a testing ground for the coalition that stands behind George W. Bush. It was a place that brought together these different constituencies that stand behind the Bush doctrine, the pre-emptive warfare doctrine. Neo-conservatives, free marketeers, the Christian right and militarists: Central America was a place where they could run wild.

Right after 9/11 we saw a round up of people of Arab and Muslim descent, more than 1,200 people locked up with no charges. Many of them were abused and even tortured. Racial profiling and anti-immigrant bashing whipped up the frenzy in Congress for keeping immigrants out.

I remember a great many family stories. I remember my mother's brother Danny coming to stay with us as he was out of work. I remember living with another family in a little apartment – Lucy and Lon up from Appalachia where the pigeons cooed right outside the window by my crib.

One of the points of the book is that migration is a community process. It’s not an individual process. Whole communities participate in it, but migration also creates communities.

If we’re to say that we have a gay movement that has any meaning, that is not just a bunch of self-satisfied bourgeois gays who send checks to organizations promoting gay marriage but instead are really engaged with the global human project of gay liberation, then our national gay groups have to devote some resources to educating and organizing around these issues of gay oppression in other countries.

Everyone agrees that the people who planned the attacks on September 11th 2001 ought to be brought to justice. But how should this be done, and who are these people really, asked Hussein Ibish, Executive Director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership.

As a socialist, I favor university intellectuals finding a way to relate to working people, especially rank-and-file labor organizations. At the least, intellectuals might be involved in community organizations – but as learners as much as teachers.

Union members are preparing to journey to San Diego for the 2006 Pride at Work (PAW) convention. Scheduled to begin September 7th, the national convention of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trasngendered (LGBT) constituency affiliate of the AFL-CIO is titled "No Turning Back in 2006."