Resetting U.S.-Cuba relations and the Cuban 5
Recent vindictive U.S. actions in the case of the Cuban 5 raise the question: what is holding back a change in the unconstructive policy of blockade and hostility toward Cuba?
Parents beware
While campaigning for the presidency, Barack Obama made it clear that education would be among his top three priorities. Unfortunately, he's starting off on the wrong path.
Aim those arrows accurately
We have nothing to gain, and everything to lose, if the Republicans - the strongest advocates for Wall Street and corporate profits at the people's expense - succeed in stopping Obama.
He got the ball rolling
Last night the president got the ball rolling, but he didn't roll it far enough or always in the right direction. So now it's our turn.
Health care: Keep the pressure on
Bravo to the health care activists who are cranking out the phone calls and participating in rallies across the country to say "finish reform right," despite stalled negotiations on Capitol Hill.
The freeze and the fire
Obama's budget freeze: hard to imagine a worse conclusion to draw from the Massachusetts election, or a more telling lesson for working people.
Democratize the Federal Reserve Bank
Ben Bernanke should be replaced, and the Federal Reserve needs fixing to serve working people's needs.
The Obama challenge to the banks
The president has taken a decidedly more combative, populist tone. It's time.
Setting the record straight
Some on the left say the Communist Party USA has no differences with President Obama. Just to set the record straight: we do, and we express them, but we go to great lengths to state them in a constructive and unifying way.
We looked into the future and the problem is us
Harsh talk about Obama from the left can easily become a substitute for examining our inadequacies. Wouldn't we be well served to look into the mirror?
