Communist Party announces fund drive
April Smith, a leader in the Michigan District of the Communist Party, helped kick off the CPUSA’s $75,000 fund drive with a $1,000 check and pledge to reach their goal.
International dockers unite in Charleston
The General Assembly of the International Dockworkers Council (IDC), representing dockers’ unions from around the world, gathered in Charleston, S.C. March 4-6. For the entire article, click on the headline. To visit the webpage for the IDC, click here.
World readers can take action - On Fast Track
The Senate Democratic leadership has indicated that consideration of Fast Track trade legislation (HR-3005) may begin next week.
Marxist library holds art sale
NEW YORK – The 22nd annual exhibition and sale of paintings, prints and folios, sponsored by the Reference Center for Marxist Studies, will be held here May 3-5 at the Winston Unity Auditorium, 235 W. 23 Street
Hundreds hear Michael Moore in Seattle
SEATTLE – On a cloudy Monday afternoon, several hundred people packed into an auditorium here to hear author/director/activist Michael Moore.
100,000 demand No war at home or abroad
WASHINGTON – Pennsylvania Avenue became a river of humanity April 20 as nearly 100,000 chanting demonstrators marched from the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building demanding an end to the Bush administration’s “war at home and abroad.”
International Notes
S. Korean civic groups protest base/Millions of Italian workers strike/Japanese group calls for ban on nuclear arms/Hungarian elections offer chance for change/Cubans to help train South African teachers/Russian oil workers strike
Saving the children: the fight for pediatric AIDS funding
When Ariel Glaser died of AIDS at age 8 in 1988 no testing was being done on drugs to treat children with AIDS. None.
We can defeat the ultra-right in Nov.
As thousands pour into Washington on April 20, a huge fight is shaping up to defeat President Bush’s extreme-right wing corporate agenda in November’s elections. At stake is control of the House and Senate and 22 governorships. It is a fight that can and must be won.
Another world is possible, but what is it called?
When Frederick Engels wrote Socialism: Scientific and Utopian, some 130 years ago, he said Marx uncovered two “secrets” that catapulted the years of human yearning for a just, equal and democratic world from wishful thinking into the realm of material existence and science.
