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Afghanistan's Future Debated in Bonn
The United Nations convened its first formal talks on a post-Taliban transitional government in Afghanistan Nov. 27. Much of the world, including the Afghan people, is focusing its hope on these talks, being held in Bonn, Germany. They provide a stark to George W. Bushs pledge to widen the war against terrorism.
International Criminal Court: a better way
From Biblical times to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, men and women have dreamed and worked for a world free from war. So far they haven’t done too well.
NC Report on the Charleston 5
The fight to free the Charleston 5 already had special significance prior to the tragedy of September 11th and the now urgent war or peace emergency. But the new situation and the surrounding challenges of deepening economic crisis, threats to civil liberties, the racist and chauvinist hate attacks against Arab Americans and immigrants, the heightened racial profiling, the attacks on democracy, place even more importance to this battle for justice...
Making a Peaceful and Non-Violent World: The Challenge of Our Times
On September 11 at 8:48 a.m. our country and world changed as commercial jets were transformed into projectiles of senseless death and destruction by hateful and criminal terrorists. Not only were the lives of thousands of people lost and not only was there destruction beyond belief, but shock waves of profound sorrow, fear, anger, and concern about our future were felt across our country and the world. But also, in...
Where are we after September 11?
The following is an excerpt from a report to the Communist Party's national committee, elected at its convention in July. The national committee met Oct. 20-21 in New York.
Political Action Remarks
The horror and shock of planes crashing into the World Trade Center did not slow down the push by the Bush administration and the extreme right-wing to achieve their anti-worker, anti-people agenda.
Where Are We After September 11?
The shocking and terrifying nature of the Sept. 11 assault has done more than temporarily traumatize the nation. It has also given the Bush administration and the far right a new legitimizing discourse, or, to put it in a less highfalutin way, a new ideological rationale to pursue its political objectives at home and worldwide.
Free speech group attacks anti-terror bill
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is waging a last ditch struggle to block a so-called 'anti-terrorism' measures adopted by the House and Senate that grants the Bush Administration sweeping new powers of detention and surveillance without judicial review.
Making a Peaceful and Non-Violent World: The Challenge of Our Times
Opening remarks to the National Committee. '...in that horrific instant and the weeks that have followed, domestic and world politics took an altogether new, frightening, dangerous, and unanticipated turn.' '...Rather than bringing us closer to a solution to the problem, the administration's response to the terrorist attack is sharpening every struggle to the extreme, endangering every democratic gain won over the past seven decades and, most ominously, plunging the nation...
The Great 2000 Election Battle
(Opening to the National Committee, Nov 18, 2000) Jarvis Tyner, Executive Vice Chair, CPUSA Good Morning Comrades. This 2000 election has been one tremendous struggle from beginning to end. Beyond any doubt this is one of the most incredible election struggles ever in our history. I wish Comrade Gus was here at this meeting; I would really like to get his thinking on this one. This election has many...