Five years after Haiti quake, workers still struggle
In recent discussions with export apparel workers in Port-au-Prince, the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center found that workers pay half their daily wage on two daily meals.
Socialist-minded people still need to discuss implosion of Soviet socialism
All socialist-minded people should be encouraged to discuss Sam Webb's "Season's Reflections on Socialism."
Unity worth the effort at world Communist meeting
The 16th Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties was hosted with elegant patience by the Communist Party of Ecuador.
Buried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials
UK families have been forced to bury loved ones in their back gardens amid an upsurge in "paupers' funerals" caused by rising costs and grant cuts.
Canada's Conservative Harper continues to push for unlimited spying
Last year, the government requested information 1.2 million times (every 27 seconds), and Bill C-13 will make the situation worse.
Venezuelan Communist youth group attacked, right wingers blamed
The attack followed by three weeks the murder in Caracas of young, charismatic socialist National Assembly delegate, Robert Serra.
Female Nobel winners are rare: One was a British communist
Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani female education activist, shot but never silenced by the Taliban, became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Cuba appeals to United Nations on U.S. blockade
The United States wants to "isolate a small country because it defends its sovereignty and its right to freely choose its future."
Iraq’s Communist Party condemns ISIS
The Communist Party of Iraq has issued a statement, dated September 2014, regarding the recent barbaric attacks launched in that country by ISIS.
War talk re Syria ratchets up
But it is spurring worries of another misguided U.S. military undertaking, escalating war and chaos, with the people of the region bearing the brunt.
