Opinion

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Relieve the unemployment pain now!

The reality is that unemployment insurance extension is one of the best things that can be done right now to help the economy. Contact your senators today.

God not on side of union-busters, Catholic scholars say

A Catholic scholars group says that opposing unions is a "grave violation" of the church's social doctrine - in fact, it's a mortal sin.

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José Saramago, Nobel author, Communist, mourned in Portugal

An estimated 20,000 mourners, including Portugal's Socialist prime minister and the leader of the Portuguese Communist Party, attended Saramago's funeral in Lisbon on Monday.

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Young Latino voters -- an emerging giant

"The Emerging Hispanic Electorate: The Young Giant Awakens," a survey of 1,500 Hispanics, ages 16 to 29, has just been released by Democracia, and contains both good and bad news for big and little "d," democratic politics.

A united fight on jobs

To win jobs for all, it requires a multi-racial united movement.

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DOL official: Economy ‘not normal,’ recovery way too long

WASHINGTON (PAI) -- The current economy is "not normal," unemployment affects different groups of people than it did before, and the recovery - in terms of the joblessness numbers - will take longer than it did in prior slumps, the Labor Department's top economist says.

CPUSA: A fighting spirit

Without any sense of hyperbole, the 29th convention of the Communist Party was a "home run."

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On public sector unions: A reply to Mort Zuckerman

Recently I read with dismay an article by Mort Zuckerman, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, on the Huffingtonpost.com titled 'Breaking the Public Sector Unions' Stranglehold on State and Local Governments.' First, that's a whopper of a title, right? Secondly, the article has nothing at all to do with facts.

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Corporations take away jobs, not immigrants

On May 1st, the immigrant community from New York City to Los Angeles stood up to the racist law passed in Arizona known as SB 1070.

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CPUSA convention video: Socialism -- sustainable and necessary

You can watch the opening session of the Communist Party USA 2010 Convention including remarks by CPUSA Chairman Sam Webb.

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