Chilean communists hold 22nd Congress
The following is based on a story from the Communist Party of Chile’s newspaper, El Siglo.
New trial sought for Cuban five
In a phone press conference, Nov. 12, Leonard Weinglass, attorney for Cuban Five defendant Antonio Guerrero, announced that he filed a motion in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida seeking a new trial. Weinglass expressed optimism that the motion would lead to the eventual release of all of the Five.
Green campaign for Pa. governor led the way on issues
Michael Morrill, Green Party candidate for Pennsylvania governor, made a difference in the Nov. 5 election although he received only 1 percent of the vote. Morrill won 38,080 votes in spite of being ignored by the media, having inexperienced organizers, and lacking funds and name recognition.
Tangled roots of anti-Semitism and Zionism
In 1881, anarchists killed the mildly liberal Russian Tsar Alexander II with a well-placed bomb. His brutish son and successor, Alexander III, joined with the most reactionary elements in the Russian ruling class to place the blame for that bombing on the Jews. This marked the beginning of an escalating tendency of European, and especially Russian, ruling elites to use anti-Semitism to deflect the anger of the people.
Juvenile executions a shameful practice
Glen McGinnis was nine years old the first time he was raped by his stepfather. His mother, a crack addict and a prostitute, offered little in the way of parenting. He was beaten with an electrical cord and a baseball bat, and burned with hot grease. When Glen was 17, he shot and killed a laundry attendant and was subsequently executed by the state of Texas.
Memorials and politics
Iron Range retirees had not even had time to uncramp their legs after their three-hour ride home from the historic memorial for Sen. Paul Wellstone and those who so tragically died with him. Williams Arena in Minneapolis was still reverberating from the tears, the cheers and the fighting spirit of this common folks’ tribute to a fallen leader, his wife and life-partner Sheila – a leader in her own right, their daughter Marcia, three campaign aides and two crew members.
Change our election system
Worker’s Correspondence This Election Day I worked as a judge in a small Chicago Southside precinct of less than 700 registered voters. Because of my age, this is my first Election Day horror story.
Students seek truth in media
Fierce storms did not stop a crowd of students from the University of North Texas in Denton from attending a panel discussion on 'Media Democracy Day,' Oct. 18. On a table by the doorway were the People’s Weekly World and materials from two organizations that seek honesty in media: The Columbia Journalism Review and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). A news report from the Fort Worth daily newspaper told about a major Vermont seminar of which Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) roundly condemned corporate news reporting.
The death of neo-liberalism
During the 1970s, a new set of economic policies for preserving and promoting capitalist development emerged. Its most celebrated political expression was in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
NARAL President speaks on judicial appointments
WASHINGTON – National Abortion Rights Action League President Kate Michelman, in a Nov. 7 press statement, warned that with the White House and Congress in 'anti-choice hands' NARAL expects the president to move aggressively to 'pack the courts with conservative ideologues in order to appeal to the far right wing of his party.'
