The following article is an interview with Irma Gonzalez and Elizabeth Palmeiro, the daughter and wife of Rene Gonzales, a member of the Cuban Five unjustly imprisoned in the United States. The interview was conducted bt Adam Glass and Jeff Tomlinson for Rebel Youth magazine, the publication of the Young Communist League of Canada. It was published in the November 16-30 issue of People's Voice, the leading communist newspaper of Canada.

Aristotle, one of the great minds of antiquity, thought that the population of states would have to be limited to the few thousand who could be directly seen and addressed at one place. Otherwise, he asked, who would be the herald of such a vast multitude, “Unless he have the voice of a Stentor? Clearly then, the best limit of the population of a state is the largest number which can be taken in at a single view.”

Without a doubt the 2006 elections transformed the political landscape in the U.S. Immediately following the news that his party had been swept from power, President Bush sacked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Public awareness of the lies that led to the war and the crimes committed during the war helps build public demand for the troops to come home. Not every committee in Congress can work fulltime on simply ending the war: a legislative process that must be pursued but which will be uphill and subject to veto or signing statement.

Hurdling over the barriers erected by Washington policymakers, Cuba, with increasing gusto, is turning to its oil and ethanol sectors to achieve energy security, despite the U.S. embargo.

“God is greater than Israel and America,” was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended into the graveyard in grief stricken Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Fired by anger and disgust with George W. Bush, the Iraq war, corporate greed, corruption and human needs cutbacks, voters went to the polls Nov. 7 and terminated 12 years of Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

THE WORD AMONG government circles is that Stephen Harper's handlers are determined that he "not be another Joe Clark."

In response to the question, whether the growth of private enterprise in the course of building socialism with Chinese characteristics is leading or would, in the future, lead to a class differentiation in the society, they answered in the negative.

Fifteen years after the disappearance of the USSR, imperialism's global offensive has brought to our planet more war, more militarism, more violence, more torture, more illegal prisons, more restrictions of freedoms and more anti-democratic repression.

¯it0dal healthcare program is the number one domestic priority of the voters. According to some statistics, 83% of the people want such a program and recognize that we are the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t have such a program.

An International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties took place, in Lisbon, on November 10, 11 and 12, 2006, under the theme "Dangers and potentialities of the international situation."

The outcome of the US elections, the victory of the Sandinistas in the Nicaraguan elections and the overwhelming support for the Cuban resolution in the UN General Assembly opposing the US blockade of Cuba add up to a week up to significant developments in the world-wide struggle against the policies of the Bush administration and other reactionary governments.

Scholarship, teaching, service and governance were seen as part of the same university mission, and the only football game that mattered to anyone was the Rutgers-Princeton game. Indeed, a match between Rutgers and Princeton in the early post Civil War period is generally regarded as the beginning of American football.

“The Time is Now,” said Congressman John Conyers to the Healthcare-NOW national strategy meeting yesterday in Chicago. Conyers and 60 Healthcare-NOW organizers from 16 states joined in thinking about how to push forward for a single-payer national healthcare system in the United States in a marathon 10 hour strategy session.

"Since 9/11 we have betrayed our values; we've betrayed our Constitution," Michael J. Steinberg, legal director of the ACLU of Michigan, told a gathering at the University of Detroit-Mercy Monday.

I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week's election. You're worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don't want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand.

A crisis has arisen in health care for senior and disabled Americans. The Bush Administration and Republican Congressional leaders pushed through a bill that they promised would bring relief from the rising costs of prescription drugs.

In an extensive press conference of over four hours with representatives from the international media, Venezuelan President Chavez welcomed the U.S. Democratic Party’s success in Tuesdays elections and touched on many other issues.

On Thursday Nov. 9, 2006, approximately 1,500 demonstrated against the recent demolition of Arab homes in the unrecognized villages of the Negev.