World

Steelworkers hit streets for Mexican miners

March 24, 2006

Steelworkers are rallying in front of Mexican consulates across the U.S. and Canada to demand that Mexico’s President Vicente Fox reinstate the head of that country’s miners union. The pro-corporate Fox government has removed Napoleon Gomez...

Secessionists threaten Venezuelas unity

March 17, 2006

“It’s new evidence for a destabilization plan that North American imperialism, through the fascist government of George W. Bush, is carrying out in our country to torpedo and sabotage the revolutionary process.” Oscar Figuera, general secretary...

Urgent appeal to stop anti-Venezuela bill

March 14, 2006

H. Con. Resolution 328 will be up for a subcommittee vote this Thursday, March 16. Your help is needed to stop this intellectually dishonest, anti-Venezuela resolution. Please call Congress today! WHAT IS H. CON. RES. 328?...

Rich history, bright future: The Japanese Communist Party convenes

March 10, 2006

ATAMI CITY, Japan — It’s 3:55 a.m. A small truck rolls along the dark rain-slick streets of the Seiso District of Odawara City, a little hamlet propped on the coast of Sagami Bay southwest of Tokyo....

ANC wins big vote in local elections

March 10, 2006

The African National Congress won two-thirds of the vote in the March 1 local elections in South Africa, handily defeating its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance, which won 16 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party won 8...