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Election Crisis in Florida
What's developing is tremendous. Palm Beach will never be the same again, and neither will the people's movements or the Communist Party. I want to appreciate the work of the comrades in Florida and in Palm Beach where I was earlier this week. Their small, rather quiet town filled with senior citizens was suddenly catapulted into the center of the struggle against the ultra-right, with the whole world watching. They...
Report on Cesar Chavez Holiday
In California, we feel that we did our part to stop Bush and the extreme right. Republican governors ruled California for sixteen years and they gave working families, racial minorities, women, seniors and youth hell. Eleven days ago, at the polls, Californians gave it back to them.
Election message to GOP:'Don't mess with California!'
Report given to the National CommitteeThese are exciting and challenging times. Jarvis's report captured that. Last Saturday in Los Angeles close to 2,000 people came out to the Federal Building to demand that every vote be counted. Today another demonstration will be held. Our District held an emergency meeting to get everyone involved in moving our unions, organizations, friends and family into this fight for democracy. I like the spirit...
Reproductive Rights
To bear or not bear children - to control one's own fertility, one's physical self - is a basic and profoundly important human right. 40 percent of the world's three billion or so women live in countries that to one degree or another usurp that control or deny that right. And of course in our own country, a sharp struggle is raging over that right.
Remarks on Women's Equality
Genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that tens of millions of women are found in every - or nearly every - arena of political, economic, and social life. Its genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that the role of women in social movements has grown enormously compared with only a few decades ago. Women are agents of progressive change.
Young Women and the Struggle for Equality
Young women have been victimized on a number of fronts. With the new Bush administration and the right wing controlling a majority of seats in Washington and the economic crisis plowing full steam ahead the attacks on equal pay for equal work, reproductive rights, violence against women, welfare reinstatement, access to public education, and criminalization are among the other issues we're going to have to address.
Greetings from the Coalition to End Child Poverty in Connecticut
Many children in poverty live in single parent, female head-of-household families. In our state most of the 35,000 put off welfare now have an even more difficult economic and family situation. Most new jobs are low-wage, non-union service jobs, often temporary and part-time. The impact of the Bush administration policies plus new cuts in the safety net in Connecticut are leaving many families stranded.
Class, Class Struggle, and Class Consciousness
I hope to make a case against stiff and rigid concepts of class. In my experience, stiffly constructed concepts of class are never appropriate. And particularly now when political, economic, and ideological life is so fluid, when new opportunities exist to strengthen working class, multi-racial, and all people's unity.
Introduction to the National Leadership Seminar
Convening a seminar of district organizers and leaders made uncommonly good sense because you are the key link in the leadership chain of our Party even if we don't always acknowledge and act on that basis. Nevertheless, it is true. You make the Party go. You enable the Party to make sound assessments of and tactical adjustments to new conditions of struggle. Your initiative is crucial to the on-going process...
Labor Leads -- for Unity and Fightback!
In the years since our last labor program, in 1993, there have been historic changes in labor. The organized labor movement is stronger and more mobilized for action than at any time since the mighty movements that built the CIO. Fresh winds of change brought new leadership, new policies and renewed energy to organized labor in the last decade. Fresh battles against corporate greed at home and globally have sharpened...