Heading the agenda as members of the Communist Party’s national committee gathered here March 24-25 were new developments in the people’s movements to end the Iraq war, win labor and immigrant rights, gain health care for all and uphold democracy.

Anybody got $500 million collecting dust under the couch? If you live in Chicago, take a second look between those cushions. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has let it be known that the people of the Windy City could pay out as much as $500 million if they are awarded the 2016 Summer Games.

An international academic conference devoted to the subject “Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition” is to take place at Bar-Ilan University this month.

Discussions are underway at the House of Representatives on a bill on special measures to implement the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan.

With an irony befitting the turns of a satiric political novel, a strand of intertwined statesmanship and farce characterized President Bush’s March stopover in Guatemala.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Tamiment Library at New York University on March 23rd to welcome the transmission of the Communist Party USA archives to the library.

Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans with signing statements and continues to violate the same laws.

The first three months of 2007 have added further impetus to the wave of anti-imperialist, progressive, and patriotic sentiments which swept across Latin America during the preceding year.

In less than two years the American people will be going to the polls to elect a new president. The country is in the middle of one of the worse crisis it has faced since Vietnam.

Retired Peruvian military officers Telmo Hurtado and Juan Rivera Rondon were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in Florida and Baltimore respectively, in violation of U.S. immigration laws this past week.

The US led pressures against Iran on the question of that country’s expressed wish to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, is only a cover for the US attempts to secure US control over an area of the Middle East that is best situated to control the production and export of energy resources from this part of the world.

The party of President George W. Bush won today a new candidate to the White House when Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo, of known xenophobic tendencies, confirmed he would be running for office.

Inequality isn't a matter of bad luck or misfortune. Social class and other socially significant categories like race and gender are the hidden hands that determine one's life chances, future prospects, and current living conditions.

For the last several months, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have carried out well-publicized immigration raids in factories, meatpacking plants, janitorial services, and other workplaces employing immigrants.

David Hicks is expected back in Australia within two months but will remain incarcerated in Australia until the federal elections are out of the way.

Venezuela is currently selling approximately 200,000 barrels of oil per day to China, announced the Chinese Ambassador to Venezuela yesterday.

Our aim is to enhance our struggle towards a just and lasting peace in the Middle East especially as we approach the anniversary of 40 years of the Israeli occupation to the Palestinian territories, the longest occupation in modern history.

Few weeks ago, just as in the last few centuries, the land claims of rural workers have been brought back up in several spots of Latin America.

This is a proud moment for our party. This collection contains tens of thousands of documents, books, pamphlets, photos, audio and visual records that show the real history of the Communist Party, USA.

US Rep. Lynn Woolsey’s (D-CA) amendment to the US House Fiscal Year 2008 Budget received 81 yes votes on March 29, 2007, a big step forward for the proposal, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. US Reps. John Lewis (D-GA) and Hank Johnson (D-GA) joined Woolsey and 78 others in voting “aye.”