There is mounting evidence that the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor is largely responsible for the differences in health between the rich and the poor.

Equal rights activists of all sexual orientations have surely asked themselves, "Was gay marriage asking for too much?" Perhaps it was.

Civil rights organizations demand that the US Senate examine closely Alberto Gonzales' record on the prisoner abuse scandal and the formation of the administration's overall civil rights agenda.

Bush recent appointments to the US Commission on Civil Rights will turn that body into a mouthpiece of the ultra right rather than a platform for promoting civil rights.

While the debate over gay marriage has been raging in the public sphere between gay rights activists and the ultraright, there has been a much quieter debate within the gay community.

If the left is to broaden its appeal to working people, it must begin to see them more holistically and appeal to them on issues of human rights. There is a long tradition in U.S. history upholding "human rights," the rights of labor and the whole people, as against "property rights," the rights in the 19th century of "the rich and the well-born" in the twentieth of corporations and investors.

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The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Frances Newton on Dec. 1 for the April 1987 murders of her husband, Adrian Newton and children Alton and Farah Newton in Harris County. If executed, Newton would be the first African-American woman Texas has put to death since the state resumed executions in 1982.

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The election of George Bush for a second term in the White House is a big setback for democratic forces, not alone in the United States itself but right across the globe. George Bush is nothing more than a puppet for the most bellicose forces centred around the giant corporations in what is known as the military-industrial complex.

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What can really be said about the "morality" of those who oppose abortion and the right of women to control their bodies, national health care insurance, and affirmative action programs but at the same time support capital punishment, economic inequality with the most extreme income gap between "haves" and "have-nots" of any industrial nation, racism, both structural and otherwise, and the criminal invasion of Iraq, and white supremacist visions of world hegemony?

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Although hopes to wrest the House and Senate from right-wing Republican control were not realized on Nov. 2, the Bush administration may find some stumbling blocks in pushing their agenda through Congress. The stage is set for major battles, given majority public opinion in opposition to privatization of Social Security, tax breaks for the wealthy, the war on Iraq, and appointment of extremist judges.

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Several months ago most pollsters predicted that the margin of difference between Kerry and Bush would be razor thin. I can’t recall anyone projecting a landslide for either candidate, let alone a major political realignment nationwide. Guess what? They were more right than wrong.

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Many liberals think that a new "Red Menace" is facing America – not that there ever was an old one. Waking up Wednesday morning (Nov. 3) and seeing the map of the red versus the blue states was pretty depressing. If there were any election the Democrats should have swept to victory in it was the 2004 election.

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GEORGE W Bush’s re-election to the White House spells trouble not only for working people in the US but for the rest of the world. His triumph represents victory not only for the unwholesome alliance of queer-bashers and misogynists that makes up the Christian right but also for the military-industrial complex, including the oil lobby.

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Never before has the divide between our nation’s richest and poorest been so large. Never before has corporate corruption and welfare been so flagrant. Therefore, we watch with rapt attention and desperation the unfolding of the American Dream on so-called reality TV, distracted from the fact that the Dream’s rewards are more fiction than fact nowadays.

Four years ago, Bush's Brain Karl Rove swore that he would not rest until the four million Evangelicals who did not vote then would turn out yesterday. And they did. They came in droves. They told those who did the exit polls that the issue that brought them to the franchise was not their own unemployment or under employment, or even the loss of their family members in a war of choice. They came to vote for "moral values."

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Although there is both anger and despair at the election results among all anti-Bush forces, it is important that we think and act as Marxists. The first question we should ask is: what would Marxists do in analyzing this election. Elections are mobilizations in the class struggle and the Republican leadership understands that, dealing with this election both as a military campaign and as psychological warfare.

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Bruised but unbowed by labor’s failure to oust George W. Bush in the Nov. 2 election, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told a news conference here that the movement will "fight like hell" to stop Bush’s ultra-right agenda in his second term. "Yesterday’s election was breathtakingly close. There is clearly no conservative mandate for our nation," Sweeney said.

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The worst possible outcome of Tuesday’s election would have been that George Bush won with the help of a divided Black electorate. Instead, African Americans reaffirmed the vitality of the Black Political Consensus – our eyes firmly fixed on the prize: peace, jobs and justice.

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While the economy did receive some stimulus from tax cuts it was very little for the trillions of dollars of present and future revenue sacrificed. Much more could have been achieved with a fraction of this money going to beleaguered state governments and people with less income than the rich. The real purpose of Bush's tax policy was to rewrite the tax code to create "an ownership society": one in which owners do not pay taxes, but workers do.

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Summary of the Report written by the US Commission on Civl Rights: "Redefining Rights in America: The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration, 2001-2004." This report documents that civil rights problems are entrenched in American society, the result of unequal treatment over the course of history. Furthermore, new means of prejudice and discrimination have become manifest. George W. Bush has fueled much of this new unequal treatment and hasn't lifted a finger to turn back the tide of racism.

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