April 7, 2007

With antiwar momentum building in and out of Congress, major grassroots efforts kicked off last week to bring U.S. troops home.

Tensions ease with release of British sailors, but U.S. war threats vs. Iran remain.

NEW YORK — The Communist Party USA has issued a new political assessment, “New Times Require Fresh Politics and Flexible Tactics,” the text of a report delivered by CPUSA National Chair Sam Webb and discussed and adopted at its National Committee meeting last month here.

The Bush administration attempted to move the immigration debate in Congress further to the right when top White House aide Karl Rove and Senate Republicans proposed new legislation March 29.

The determination of a united workforce, backing from a union trying to help them organize and support from a national campaign have combined to result in a victory for workers in the livestock department at Smithfield Packing’s Tar Heel, N.C., plant.

A timeline of the U.S. attorney scandal

OAKLAND, Calif. — With Californians more likely to be uninsured than people in 45 other states, it’s no surprise that poll figures show 81 percent of voters think the government should guarantee that all residents can get affordable health coverage.

SAN ANTONIO: 20,000 honor César Chávez
SEATTLE: City ordered to compensate WTO protesters
PITTSBURGH: Sleepless night protests transit cuts

While a new study released this month notes some improvements, African Americans and Latinos are still more likely than Anglos to be targets of traffic stops and searches in Texas.

Colombian left-wing leader Ricardo Palmera, also known as Simon Trinidad, was about to go on trial in Washington, D.C., for supporting terrorism and conspiring to take hostages, when on March 26 Judge Thomas Hogan unexpectedly removed himself from the case.