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What we need today a program for working peopleELECTION PLATFORM 2004, COMMUNIST PARTY USA
October 08, 2004Editor’s note: The Communist Party USA recently released the following election platform. We reprint it here as part of our coverage of the broad, people’s movement to defeat President Bush. The platform is also available on-line, in English and Spanish, at www.cpusa.org.
Read moreFor equality, justice and self-determination
September 29, 2007The following statement was made by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque at the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 26 in New York City. Mr. President: Never before had the real dangers menacing the human species become so evident; never before had the violations of International Law become so evident, as they increasingly jeopardize international peace and security; never before had inequality and exclusion become so...
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‘In the Penal Colony’: A Philip Glass opera based on Franz Kafka
April 30, 2019LONG BEACH, Calif.—Two of the world’s most popular and introspective artists have paired up after almost four-score years to create a mesmerizing piece of stage theatre that operagoers will not soon forget. Southern California is currently hosting its premiere performances of Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony” adapted as an approximately 90-minute one-act opera by the world-renowned American “minimalist” composer Philip Glass. The libretto is by Rudolph Wurlitzer....
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Biden’s National Security Guidance document reflects the old imperialist foreign policy
March 30, 2021It falls far short of a world in which there is mutual cooperation among nations needed to solve international problems.
Read moreArt, Truth & Politics
December 10, 2005In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.' I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by...
Read moreSpeech given at the official function commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the assault on the Monc
July 29, 2005Dear people of Havana who, by your selfless, tenacious efforts and in hard-fought competition with the inhabitants of Villa Clara, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Camagüey and Granma, won the right to hold this official function here in the capital: I congratulate you all. Fighters of yesterday and today: Distinguished guests: Dearest fellow Cubans: I thank our generous and heroic people for the privilege of commemorating this anniversary of the assault on the...
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