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What we need today a program for working peopleELECTION PLATFORM 2004, COMMUNIST PARTY USA

October 8, 2004

Editor’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,...

NYC infant mortality up

October 8, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

In 2003, New York City’s infant mortality rate climbed to 6.5 percent, an increase of 8 percent above the previous year’s figure.

GOP steps up attacks on foreign born

October 8, 2004

News Analysis The Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress are stoking the fires of anti-immigrant agitation in the weeks before the election. In Congress, the Republican leadership is using the perceived urgency of acting...

Border vigilantes scatter like roaches

October 8, 2004

TUCSON, Ariz. — Deaths of Mexican and other Latin American immigrants trying to cross Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, one of the deadliest deserts in the world, have soared. Since 1999, more than 3,000 people have died trying...

Halabi responds to Cato charges

October 8, 2004 By Wadi’h Halabi

Three weeks ago, this column identified George W. Bush’s “ownership society” as “actually a Wall Street expropriation, foreclosure-and-indenture scheme.” The column warned that Bush’s Wall Street masters, impelled by a crisis of their system, were using...