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David Zirin, 03/19/2005
“A theater of the absurd.” This is how Rep. Tom Lantos described Thursday’s “steroid hearings” on Capital Hill. The description is apt. Viewers, as CSPAN and ESPN joined forces, witnessed hearings as pointless as they were, admittedly, riveting.
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Don Currie, 03/19/2005
A majority of Canadians have rebuffed the Bush Administration's intrusion into Canadian political affairs and compelled the Martin Liberal Government to keep Canada out of US Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD).
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European Communist Youth, 03/19/2005
The world is on the verge of an historical moment. In the past fifteen years, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, imperialism has launched reckless attacks, with the consideration of absence of a power to stop them.
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Mohamed El-Anwar, 03/19/2005
The Iraqi Communist Party (ICP), also known as the People's Union, won two seats in the interim National Assembly. Do you see a future for the ICP in Iraq?
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UFCW, 03/19/2005
Arkansas' Department of Human Services released damning figures yesterday stating that the retail giant leads the list of top 10 employers whose workers are receiving state welfare.
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Prensa Latina, 03/18/2005
Nearly seven years after a farce of a trial, a former Miami FBI bureau chief has admitted that the five Cubans imprisoned in the US were not given access to some intelligence information relating to their case.
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Norman Markowitz, 03/18/2005
I admit that I have been a baseball fan longer than I have been consciously anything else – a Dodger fan from the South Bronx since the Summer of 1951.
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Joel Wendland, 03/18/2005
Polls conducted recently in Australia and Italy indicate that voters there may be ready to replace their conservative governments.
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Gene C. Gerard, 03/18/2005
President Bush recently nominated Stephen L. Johnson, a 24-year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be the agency’s new administrator.
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Phyllis Bennis, 03/18/2005
Bush attempts to equate military occupation by the U.S. and its allies with democracy, and the struggle against those occupations with terrorism.
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Blade Nzimande, 03/18/2005
As the SACP we have been consistent over the decades in grounding our analysis and struggle in South Africa in a Marxist-Leninist class approach.
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Sarah Schaffer, 03/17/2005
Washington has stepped up its aggressive stance toward Iran, threatening it with harsh UN Security Council-mandated sanctions if it does not abandon its alleged nuclear activities.
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Political Affairs, 03/17/2005
This week's opening of the 61st Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights began with a call by the Cuban delegation for major reform in the Commission.
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Political Affairs, 03/17/2005
As Congress gets set to hand Bush another $82 billion that he originally promised wouldn't be needed to fight his illegal war, this weekend marks the two-year anniversary of the beginning of Bush's war on Iraq.
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Gene C. Gerard, 03/17/2005
The White House announced last week that President Bush issued pardons to eight individuals. During his first term, Mr. Bush issued a mere 31 pardons and sentence commutations.
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Manfred Idler, 03/17/2005
WHEN Tamara and Fiona Baur returned from Cuba last summer, several people asked why the solidarity brigade that they had worked with was called Olga Benario.
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Joel Wendland, 03/17/2005
After weeks of promotion, more people disapprove of Bush's privatization plan than did just three weeks ago.
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Frank H. Wu, 03/17/2005
Although the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of affirmative action and scholarly studies have shown the benefits of enrolling a diverse range of qualified students, opponents of the programs continue to make misleading arguments.
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Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 03/16/2005
The recent visit of the first ever communist delegation to Pakistan after India’s vivisection in 1947 was described as “historic” by every section of the Pakistan society
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The Guardian (Australia), 03/16/2005
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2005 Review Conference will take place at the United Nations in New York from May 2 to 27, 2005.
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