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A Marxist perspective on religion today

May 6, 2005 By Tim Yeager

Among the “wedge” issues with which the ultra-right attempts to divide the working class are the questions of (1) rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, including marriage or civil unions, access to benefits and...

EDITORIAL: Scapegoats for Bush

May 6, 2005

For two years, decent people have agonized over the photo of Iraqi prisoners piled naked in an interrogation room at Abu Ghraib prison, leering American soldiers posing beside them. Another shows an American soldier leading a...

EDITORIAL: Two anniversaries

May 6, 2005

On May 8 and 9, 1945, the world celebrated the victory in Europe of the Allies — the U.S., Britain and the USSR — over the forces of Hitler fascism that first destroyed democracy in Germany...

Hiroshima mayor calls for nuclear weapons ban

May 6, 2005

CHICAGO — Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, and president of Mayors for Peace, addressed a standing room crowd of over 350 at DePaul University here April 27. Akiba is touring the U.S. as part of...

Voices from the peace march

May 6, 2005

“It’s time to stop nuclear weapons. I have been in the U.S. three times before on the same mission — to stop an evil weapon. This is my own personal opinion and not that of any...