Editor’s Note: Faik Batti has been a member of the central committee of the Iraqi Communist Party since 1993. He was a journalist and historian of the leftist press in Iraq. After an exile of 25 years, Batti returned to Iraq in 2003.

This deadly and destructive war has killed hundreds, wounded thousands, and uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The destruction of infrastructure from houses to hospitals, to transportation and communications systems, to power grids has been massive.

Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?

The New York Times reported this week that the Bush administration is eliminating almost half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans.

The United States is seeking a “new Middle East” by alienating the Syrian beating heart of the strategic region. Washington wants Syria to cooperate as near as in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon and as far as in Iran but is sending her messages and messengers all around the region except to Damascus.

At first glance, history seems to repeat itself in Lebanon, where a lengthy cold war is intermittently interrupted by an extreme show of violence as traditional players quickly sprint into action, stacking their support behind one party or the other.

TONY Blair continues to parrot platitudes about deeply regretting "the loss of innocent life in the Lebanon and Israel" while backing the US-Israeli battle plan.

Contrary to the usual outcome of Washington’s subsidies to U.S. farmers, recent grants for ethanol producers could actually improve many lives, both at home and abroad.

The party believes that an international pressure for an immediate cease fire is the best expression of solidarity that our people can get in order to stop the bloodshed and massacres.

Representatives of the parties of the European Left which belong to the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the party announced at a Press Conference in Athens today the visit of a delegation of the European Left party to Lebanon.

"In the United States, it is possible to work full-time, full-year and still live in poverty," states the soon-to-be-released book The State of Working America, 2006/2007, the indispensable annual publication of the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

While the deal was sold to the public as a great strategic breakthrough, those promoting the deal in the media are now talking about the benefits of nuclear energy.

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labour today issued a statement expressing their feelings of revulsion at the growing loss of innocent lives due to the escalating violence between Israel and Lebanon.

We strongly condemn all aggressive acts by the Israeli army in Gaza and Lebanon with tragically consequences for the live of the Palestinian, Lebanese and Israeli people but also for people from other countries.

Hiroshima Day will be observed on August 6 throughout the world by the peace loving people expressing anguish, sympathy and concern for those lakhs of victims of US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 61 years ago.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton kicked up quite a stir recently when he suggested that the killing of Lebanese civilians can simply not be compared with the killing of Israeli civilians.

All of the Pink Tide’s heaviest hitters were in perfect condition at the 30th Presidential Summit of the Mercado Comun del Sur (MERCOSUR), the South American regional trading bloc, which convened last Thursday and Friday in Córdoba, Argentina.

Many of the 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon do not have rights or residency status or even documents with them when fleeing.

“They are bombing entire cities, it is a true genocide. Where will this madness end? God only knows! It extends from Iraq to Lebanon and Palestine. Let’s hope it doesn’t spread further.”

"5 factories" documents the experiences of workers' participation and control in 5 different factories...Each one of these examples shows a different form of organisation and workers' participation. The workers themselves explain their own experience