Here is a PowerPoint slideshow to accompany the by Joelle Fishman, Chair of the Political Action Commission. This is a tool available for Party Districts, Clubs, members and friends to convey some of the facts, messages and important goals leading up to the November 2006 Mid-term elections. Warning! The attached file requires Microsoft PowerPoint to view and is VERY LARGE (9 MB). Download may take several minutes.
Karl Rove, top Bush advisor now facing possible indictment, arrogantly declared the Republicans will use fear of terrorism once again to win the elections in 2006. It will be about the Republicans post-9/11 worldview versus the Democrats pre-9/11 worldview he said at the Republican National Committee. The question is, can the fear factor smokescreen associated with the war on terrorism create a thick enough cover to maintain the corrupt Republican...
Three years into shock and awe, the Bush administrations imperialist war and occupation of Iraq has shattered hundreds of thousands of lives, both in Iraq and in the United States. The Iraqi people have awakened from the nightmare of dictatorship only to be plunged into a seemingly bottomless abyss of bombings, torture and executions by the U.S. military; death squads, attacks on civilians and exploding sectarian violence between the Shiite,...
February presents us once again with an opportunity to strengthen our basic understanding of the fight for democracy and social progress in our country. One decisive question is the relationship of the struggle of the working class to the struggle of the African American people. The core forces of the forward motion for social progress in our country consist of the working class and its organized form, the labor movement,...
Report of the CPUSA delegate to the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties 'Current Trends In Capitalism: Economic, Social And Political Impact. The Communists' Alternative' Athens, 18-20 November, 2005. The United States is going through one of the most politically turbulent periods in recent memory. The administration of George W. Bush is facing a profound crisis of legitimacy.
Report to CPUSA National Board. Two months after our nations worst disaster on the Gulf Coast hundreds of thousands are still displaced and homeless... I spent a day and a half in New Orleans and a day in Baton Rouge...these are impressions based on what I saw, the interviews I conducted, and what information I gathered from local radio, newspapers and TV.
The purpose of my report is to present a picture of the political situation and its evolution since our Convention. Normally we might not do this, but things have happened over the past four months that are anything but normal. Indeed, the political landscape has tilted enough that the National Board thought it would be useful for the National Committee to take a fresh look at the status of the...
The Communist Party, USA joins the people of Puerto Rico in condemning the FBI killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ros and the arrest orders for other fighters for independence. We are outraged that the FBI let Ojeda Ros bleed to death. We are outraged that Ojeda's request to be permitted to surrender to a well-know journalist was denied. It is apparent from all credible sources that the FBI killed...
Report by Marc Brodine, Chair of the Program Committee for the 28th Convention of the CPUSA. The report set the stage at the Convention for discussing, amending and adopting the .
Message of greetings from the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL)Cyprus to the 28th National Convention of the CPUSA.