After years of laying the groundwork, Bush is sharpening his ax and preparing to mount a campaign for the final blow – the destruction of Social Security!

"We are fighting for a democratic modern state, which will enshrine political freedoms and rights and ensure that there is no return to dictatorship or authoritarianism under any guise, whether nationalist or religious."

In forgiving portions of Iraq's foreign debt, the Paris Club imposed conditions on any future Iraqi government that would tie that country's economy to "free-market fundamentalism."

The number of US soldiers killed during the 21 months of the war on Iraq reached 1,350 today after another nine troops died in resistance actions.

Bush has already demonstrated that he is willing to install programs and carry out policies that are opposed by most Americans. Social Security privatization is no different.

It would be an impressive sign to the world that America is capable of compassion and empathy if the President were to cancel the inaugural excess and add the tens of millions to the relief fund for the victims of the tsunami disaster.

Civil rights organizations demand that the US Senate examine closely Alberto Gonzales' record on the prisoner abuse scandal and the formation of the administration's overall civil rights agenda.

With funds amounting to close to $2 billion, the UN is continuing its efforts to mobilize international aid for the countries affected by the terrible seaquake in the Indian Ocean.

The AFL-CIO yesterday condemned the murder of Hadi Salih, the international secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), who was shot by assassins who broke into his Baghdad home.

In the early hours of 6 January 1995, that hero of our revolution, Cde Joe Slovo, passed away after a long battle with cancer. This year we are commemorating the 10th anniversary of that sad day.

Humanity as a whole faces the ascending aggressiveness of the US imperialism, which takes manifold forms: political, economic and military throughout all continents.

Are the basic features of Lenin's theory of imperialism still valid today, despite the fact that they have been imbued with a new content which has modified them?

2004 should be remembered as a year when the hermetically sealed divide between sports and society frayed for the first time in a generation.

The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions reported further attacks on its members on the railway line between Basra and Nasiriyyah and on union offices in Baghdad.

The Philippines government, an original member of the "Coalition of the Greedy," supported the war against Iraq in the hope of profiting from the post-invasion restructuring of its economy.

Bush's stingy response in providing aid for the disaster in South Asia compares unfavorably with his rush to war in Iraq. We know where his priorities lie.

Anthropologist Jared Diamond offeres some thoughts on why societies don't survive in his latest book. Their ruling classes do not concern themselves with the consequences of their own excesses.

An anonymous soldier writes about his New Year's resolution from Iraq. Who are we fighting for, he asks.

The Bush administration's opposition to the science of HIV/AIDS prevention and its anti-choice ideology could get more people killed.

Bush's corporate partners are enjoying higher rates of profit because of his war on Iraq.