Editors' Blog
Video: From Wisconsin to Washington, stand up for jobs, workers' rights and peace
Opening to the 1st annual Communist Party conference.
April 16 live video broadcast: “Stand up for jobs, workers' rights and peace”
Now the struggle goes to Washington where Republicans are scheming to end Medicare, gut Social Security, and make working families pay yet again for more tax cuts for the rich. The Communist Party USA joins with working families to demand a stop to the Republicans' slash and burn policies.
A tale of three budget plans
Yesterday, President Obama outlined a fiscal policy proposal to reduce the federal debt by $4 trillion.
A Bad Budget Deal for the People
President Obama has struck a deal with the Republicans that is reminiscent of the policies associated with George HW Bush and Bill Clinton, that is, to reduce public spending in major areas while in a less direct way, taxation.
Taxing the Rich Makes Economic Sense
Even as President Obama addressed the nation today with a deficit-cutting plan, which included the call for cuts in defense spending and higher taxes on the rich, some wealthy Americans have joined a campaign to "tax wealth like work."
Podcast: Why the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is Still a Bad Idea
On this episode PA contributing editor John Case and CPUSA labor commission chair Scott Marshall respond to the new push to pass the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
AFL-CIO rejects Colombia FTA
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Proposed Colombia Trade AgreementApril 06, 2011We are deeply disappointed that the Obama Administration has signaled that it will move forward to submit the proposed U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement to Congress for a vote in the near future. In our view, the situation in Colombia remains unacceptably violent for trade unionists, as well as for human rights defenders and other vulnerable populations.
