Commemorations of the August 1945 nuclear bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are occasions when the demand is raised for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. Hiroshima is a stark reminder of the devastation that weapons of mass destruction cause and a time to demand an end to the terror of nuclear annihilation.

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following.

Since the first detainees were transferred there from Afghanistan on January 11, 2002, Guantanamo Bay has become the most notorious prison on earth.

After initially approving an Obama campaign advertisement for use at Florida gasoline stations on Gas Station TV, a network whose self-described mission is to "reach captive audiences via video at the gas station pump with targeted advertising," the advertising driven video service refused to show the ad.

Attention all Marxists! If you thought class struggle was the motive force of history, as certain manifesto writers have claimed, you are sadly mistaken. A new book by Daniel Lord Smail ("On Deep History and the Brain", California, 2007) has come up with the true motive force.

On July the 14th, Luis Moreno Ocampo, serving as international war-crimes prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) formally indicted Sudanese President Omar Bashir for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity against several Sudanese tribes.

Union activists affiliated with the WakeUpWalMart.com campaign circulated a petition this week via e-mail demanding the Federal Election Commission investigate whether Wal-Mart has violated federal election laws.

Critics of US politics often cite low voter participation as a sign of political backwardness, massive alienation from the process, and the lack of an appeal by the major party platforms to ordinary working Americans. Barack Obama wants to change all that.

Corporate media have been absurdly receptive to the McCain campaign's charge that Barack Obama "played the race card" by predicting that his opponents in the presidential race would try to use his race against him.

he World Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns the dismissal of 22,000 part-time public employees in California and the cuts in the wages of most of the state’s 200,000 employees.

Yesterday morning, following a massive protest in Washington, D.C., George Bush resigned from his post as President of the United States of America. Though several major media outlets have claimed the resignation was a response to the public’s call for his resignation...

The Communist Party's program, "Election 2008: Help Make History," addresses the urgent situation and the tremendous opportunity to defeat the ultra-right in this election and create the conditions to turn the country around.

Michelle Obama has been the target of more scrutiny than even Hillary Clinton in the 1990s, suggests a soon-to-be published profile of the wife of the Democratic nominee by Ebony magazine.

Global warming is a huge social problem that requires many different levels of action. Right-wing ideologues long ago convinced themselves that global warming isn't real.

For those of us who have grave misgivings about the way Europe is becoming a superstate, rather than a union of independent states, this book is an intelligent critique of the Lisbon Treaty and what it entails.

The recent hubbub over plastic containers leaching chemicals into food and drinks has cast a pall over all kinds of plastics that come into contact with what we ingest, whether deserved or not.

Kingto Tashi was only a nine year old boy when Dalai Lama fled from Lhasa. His parents were serfs to nobles and Tashi had never worn a full cloth till then. Tashi, a more or less well-off farmer now with enough land to sustain not only his family but also his dreams, compared pre-1959 days with the present situation...

“$48.73. That's how much it costs to fill my gas tank these days," said Lou Patello of Lansing, Michigan the other day. "And I am sick of it. Why can't those politicians do something about this?"

Despite increasing green awareness and steadily rising gasoline prices, Americans and other denizens of the developed world are loath to give up the freedom and privacy of their personal automobiles.

Barack Obama's plan for health care would outperform and be more efficient than the scheme offered by John McCain, according to new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released last week.