I thought of writer Dashiell Hammett, who went to prison for refusing to name names for the McCarthyites and was bankrupted for political reasons by the IRS, when I read of Tom DeLay’s threats against "activist judges" and "liberal media."

ABDULLAH MUHSIN argues for support for Iraqi democracy and calls on its political leaders to show that Iraqis can solve their own problems.

Community activists are taking their campaign to tell the truth about Wal-Mart’s anti-worker, anti-community policies to Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Arkansas.

More than 300 people gathered in Washington D.C. and New York City yesterday to send a loud and clear message to senators: "Don't go nuclear."

Having failed to dislodge firebrand Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez by force in an April 2002 coup, Bush now must come to terms with the fact that Venezuela has cultivated strong European ties.

A Office of the U.S. Trade Representative report emphasizes the importance the U.S. government has attached to the privatization of postal services in Japan's structural reform.

At the halfway point of the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for reforming the 53-member body.

THE need for the European Union to reject US pressure and adopt an independent position in the Human Rights Commission in Geneva was highlighted by Ali Ruckert, president of the Communist Party of Luxembourg.

According to press reports, DeLay's wife, Christine, and daughter, Dani DeLay Ferro, accepted over a half of a million dollars from Americans for a Republican Majority, a DeLay-controlled PAC.

As we mark the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination nearly forty years ago, we might ask ourselves: is there still a dream?

In many ways, the SACP Special Congress is a direct call on all poor and working people in South Africa to ensure that the second decade of freedom becomes their decade.

I want to speak directly to the men and women of Oglaigh na hEireann, the volunteer soldiers of the Irish Republican Army.

The State Department purported to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a basic definition of human rights and condemned violations of the principles codified in that document.

The most remarkable thing about the bankruptcy bill (which has now been postponed in the House until next week) is something that the corporate media is incapable of reporting on.

In May, world leaders, mayors and people from around the world will converge on the United Nations to decide the fate of the endangered Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

The bible bashing and the hucksterism of the right-to-lifers in the US surrounding the Schiavo case shows once again that the religious right is riding high under Bush.

John Bolton, under secretary of state for International Armaments and Security, has accused Cuba of producing biological weapons and being a terrorist threat.

Thousands of working families and community activists in more than 70 cities at the offices of Wall Street firms demanded Charles Schwab Corp., Wachovia Corp. and others stop pushing the privatization of Social Security.

After four years of sitting on its more than one hundred billion dollar defaulted debt, Argentina offered its creditors a pittance of its total obligations to them.

Bolton led the campaign against ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, renewal of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, and the withdrawal from the International Criminal Court