Following is the full text of Beijing Declaration issued in Beijing on September 5, 2004 at the closing ceremony of the Third International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

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I am so confused. Where exactly do you stand on the issue of Iraq? You, your Dad, Rummy, Condi, Colin, and Wolfie -- you have all changed your minds so many times, I am out of breath just trying to keep up with you! Which of these 10 positions that you, your family and your cabinet have taken over the years represents your CURRENT thinking?

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I feel sorry for them, as I am sure you do, too. I mean, there they are, swarming all over the former Soviet Union, expending great efforts to teach the people there the ways of capitalism and it seems the people are not grateful. I am talking about the US and EU-trained "aid workers" who are trying to "help" the people of the various former Soviet Republics.

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Muravchik, and a long-time resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (well funded interference runners for big business), has produced a melodramatic history of socialism that would make my old anti-Soviet City College teacher quite happy, along with readers of the National Review and Fox News viewers.

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"Nothing prepares you for the actual moment you step into jail!" Al-Tijani Al-Tayeb, leader of the Sudanese Communist Party, cocks an ear towards the kitchen of his Nasr City apartment, as his wife, Fatheya, emerges bearing cups of delicious Kenyan tea. Still to this day, she is actively involved with the women's wing of the Sudanese Communist Party.

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Recently Louis Uchitelle presented an economic analysis of the US deficit (NYT "Business Day" 9-18-04). Marxists should take note of a possible sudden collapse of the US economy that may well threaten the existence of the international capitalist system. Uchitelle talked with C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics, who thinks the deficit is a "disaster in the making."

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Tens of millions of workers have fought to survive over the last 3 1/2 years of the anti-worker extremism of the Bush administration. They suffered under rich tax cuts, budget cuts, stripped safety and health protections, gutted wage protections and union organizing rights, severe repression of civil liberties, attacks on civil rights, dangerous environmental policies, and an endless illegal war that has seen hundreds of thousands of working families torn apart.

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Has it come to this? Did SportsCenter really broadcasting this week from Kuwait? Are we inhaling our nightly dose of baseball, banter and "booyah" from a set designed by the US Armed Forces? Is the SportsCenter stage really designed to look like a bunker, replete with camouflage netting, anchors' desks made out of sandbags and a Bradley tank?

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An old socialist once said that American liberals are more sympathetic to socialism as an idea the further it is away from home. The Bush administration and the Republican party, at least verbally, seem to have the same attitude toward democracy as an idea, advocating its expansion abroad while they do everything in their power to restrict it at home.

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The right to vote is fundamental to any real democracy. The African American people from slavery to today have had to wage a hard, bitter and bloody struggle for this right: it is therefore a sacred and basic part of achieving full democracy and equality for all and an important gauge of the strength of US democracy.

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As the world's leading democracy, it's ironic that we have been so afraid of it elsewhere, supporting reactionary royal families and dictatorships in country after country

Mary Perry, now ninety-seven years old, went to art school at the age of 15 in 1923. In New York City she attended the Art Students League and the Traphagen School of Fashion and Design. She was one of 40 women sculptors on the New York City Federal Arts Project (Commonly referred to as the WPA) At that time, in the 1930's, she began to do social-protest art which has been her life long interest. On the Federal Arts Project , besides doing her own sculpture, she also taught children sculpture at the Harlem Art Center and the East Side House. Later she assisted the sculptor Cesare Stea on a sculpture for West Point.

During the 1930's and 1940's, she exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, Carnegie Hall, New York University, Rockefeller Center, The Roerich Musuem, The New School for Social Reseach, Radio City, Independence Hall, and such galleries as the ACA Gallery and the Municipal Gallery in New York City.

After moving with her husband and child to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1950's, she exhibited during the 50's and 60's in San Francisco galleries, Telegraph Hill, East West, Greta Willliams, and the Artists Cooperative, and in Oakland at the Oakland Museum. At Dominican College in San Rafael, California she had a solo show on her response to the Vietnam War. In 1968 she had her own gallery in San Rafael, California.

In the 70's and 80's, she had shows in California including Benicia, Sausalito, and in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club. Mary has lived in the Rogue Valley since 1992, her work has been shown at the Grants Pass Museum, The Rogue Valley Art Gallery, The Jega Gallery, Garos, and the Art Space Gallery near Tillamook , Oregon. In February 2006 her social- protest work was shown at the Thorndike Gallery on the Southern Oregon University campus.

In 2001 " Art and Antiques Magazine," had an essay on her Federal Arts Project experiences. Her art papers are in the Smithsonian, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at Sonoma State University in their collection on women artists.

An award winner at both the Metropolitan and Oakland Museum for her sculpture, she was also an award winner for her painting from Mill Valley which honored her with their Spirit of Mill Valley Award.