Current Issues
Bush, GOP Block Aid for Jobless
Playing the “Grinch who stole Christmas,” President Bush and his Republican helpers on Capitol Hill blocked a Senate bill that would provide an additional 13 weeks in jobless benefits and...
Best Wishes for a Peaceful New Year
An excerpt of greetings to the Communist Party USAs annual holiday party in New York Dec. 20. Sam Webb is CPUSA National Chair.
Helen Winter 1908-2001
Helen Winter, a life-long member of the Communist Party, died Dec. 13. She is survived by a daughter, Michelle Artt, granddaughters Elizabeth Meggison and Ruth Foster, and several great-grandchildren and...
Bush Plan Leaves Some Children Behind
This week the Senate passed the misnamed No Child Left Behind Act, which gives the federal government an unprecedented say in the standards public school children must meet. Yet it...
Pharmaceutical Industry: Rx for Profit
By any measure, the pharmaceutical business is big business. Last year, retail pharmacies filled 2.9 billion prescriptions, an increase of 7.5 percent over 1999. Sales from the 50 best-selling prescription...