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?

Detroit, Mich. – An exhibition celebrating the life of Paul Robeson opened here last Saturday, Jan. 19, at Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery.

While the race for the Democratic nomination for president has just begun, it's clear that the people, many of whom are first time participants in the process, are hungering for change and to put their mark on this election.

As Susan Faludi detailed in Backlash, the 1980s conservative revolt against the feminist movement quickly permeated popular culture—the movies we watched, the ads we were fed—reinforcing the sorry stereotypes the women’s movement sought so hard to diffuse.

Sen. Barack Obama received a huge boost one day after finishing slightly behind Sen. Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary when three important union endorsements went his way.

The jubilation of Barack Obama's stunning win in Iowa was muted by the dismay of his defeat in New Hampshire.
Commentators have conjured up every conceivable explanation for New Hampshire's sudden change of heart as Obama's nine point lead evaporated
within 24 hours.

It seems like yesterday that 15,000 working family voters crowded into Chicago’s Soldier Field to ask questions and hear what the seven major Democratic presidential candidates had to say about jobs, health care, workers’ rights, the war in Iraq and more.

In the buildup to the 2008 elections, the right-wing Republicans have decided to make immigrants the scapegoat for the failure of the Bush administration and the shortcomings of the capitalist system.

With 28% of nearly 10,000 votes cast, Smithfield Chairman Joseph Luter III narrowly beat out American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey to win the seventh annual online "Grinch of the Year" election sponsored by National Jobs with Justice.

First of all, the People’s Weekly World (which continues the Daily Worker, founded in 1924) has a very long history of what we call working-class journalism.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that he would continue to raise the banner of socialism in his country, waiting for the day when history would allow it to reach its greatest height.

The vote on the constitutional referendum yesterday in Venezuela demonstrated the ethics of the Bolivarian Revolution, affirmed President Hugo Chávez in a press conference after the referendum was narrowly defeated.

Bolivian President Evo Morales today joined a column of campesinos that has been marching for several days in favor of a variety of social measures and a new national Constitution.

The recent racist rantings of the Nobel prize-winning geneticist Dr. James Watson shows us again how the eugenicist myths of inherited intelligence are still common currency and how immediate and contemporary ripostes to such bogus science are necessary and essential.

Immigrant workers workers and their supporters demonstrate in front of San Francisco City Hall and the Federal Building.

Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex and compounded questions. Racists, in turn, come from all walks of life.

Se está escribiendo y hablando mucho sobre los problemas relacionados con la inmigración de los indocumentados. Los políticos y los llamados “expertos” pitorrean mentiras racistas.

Ermilo and Marcelina Lopez and their sons Jeronimo and Juanito, are a family of Mixtec immigrants from San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca.

Democratic candidates have earned high marks for supporting LGBT equality, according to a report released last week by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, examining the positions of all the presidential candidates on LGBT issues.

Fifty-three years after the Brown Decision declared segregation in schools unconstitutional and twenty-nine years after a more conservative court limited in the Bakke decision the scope of affirmative action policies in education to questions of diversity, the Supreme Court this week gave the supporters of de facto segregation and institutional racism a major victory.