About 20 Atlanta activists met at sundown at Freedom Park to spell out the word IMPEACH with an array of candles on a hill at a major intersection, Freedom Parkway and Moreland Avenue.

The class struggle has its origins in actual exploitative practices, which in turn are traceable to an integrated, global system of exploitation. The ceaseless accumulation of capital and the exploitation of wage labor are two sides of a single coin.

This past weekend, I got together with one of my best friends in life and listened as words of pain, bitterness and confusion flowed freely from his lips. He had just learned that one of his family members had been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. A young man, scarcely in his second decade of life, was gone.

US Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney. Kucinich did not limit the Articles to the issue of Iran; they also include defrauding the public and Congress over the need to invade Iraq.

US Rep. Kucinich (D-OH) is about to unveil Articles of Impeachment against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney at a press conference, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.

Subpoena is a beautiful word. Sub means Under, as in "The subservient subject submitted along with his subordinates to the rule of law." Poena means Penalty, as in "There's an opening at the penal colony."

Heading the agenda as members of the Communist Party’s national committee gathered here March 24-25 were new developments in the people’s movements to end the Iraq war, win labor and immigrant rights, gain health care for all and uphold democracy.

Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans with signing statements and continues to violate the same laws.

In less than two years the American people will be going to the polls to elect a new president. The country is in the middle of one of the worse crisis it has faced since Vietnam.

The Georgia Working Families Caucus (WFC) is the Georgia General Assembly’s newest legislative caucus, having officially formed this session “in order to develop and promote legislation and policies that invest in workers, families, and communities,” Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

In the first 11 weeks of the 110th Congress, several pieces of progressive legislation, including the Employee Free Choice Act and an increase in the minimum wage, have passed in the House.

Candidates will be judged on the issues and on the ability to continue to expand and deepen the broad people’s coalition, which is the only way we can wrest control away from the right wing.

Contradicting President Bush's claim that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' actions were "appropriate," Republican Sen. John Sununu (NH) this week joined a chorus of members of Congress calling for Gonzales' dismissal.

Recent Senate hearings on the apparent politically motivated firings of eight US attorneys by the Bush administration has dealt a severe blow to the credibility of the administration and to the Justice Department.

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.

It is difficult to understand why Dick Cheney came to Australia at all. If it was merely to tell Australians that the US-Australia alliance is “rock solid” and that Australian soldiers are brave and “doing a great job”, it was a waste of time. John Howard is always on hand to tell us that at every opportunity. If it was to stiffen Howard’s resolve not to “cut and run” he did not need any persuading on that score.

We can Still Do It

We Can Still Do It!

In this print edition...

• Beyond Equality: Class, Gender and Race Today, by Mary Davis
• Why Bush's Medicare Drug Plan is Just Plain Wrong, by Anna Bates
• Union Yes! Supporting a Worker's Right to Choose, by Ben Sears
• Current Letters (updated 2-27-07)
• Current Poetry (updated 2-27-07)

Progressives are not immune to the "national pastime" of selecting ones favorite candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination for 2008.

Today, according to political watchers and pundits, money-men and mainstream media, the United States has its first formidable female contender for the Presidency of the United States. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton! As a politically active woman who desires equality in office, Mrs. Clinton's candidacy should rally my support. But sadly, it does not!

Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, has written a new best-selling book, US v. Bush, which includes a federal indictment against President George W. Bush and other top administration officials for conspiracy to defraud US Congress and the American people over the need to invade Iraq.