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By Bill Van Auken
A group of top union officials in New York City played the key role in bringing about the abrupt end of the New York City transit strike, brokering a deal that leaves 34,000 subway and bus workers exposed to punishing financial penalties and the continued drive by their employer, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), to extract far-reaching concessions.
This was the first shutdown of the nation’s largest mass transit system in 25 years. It expressed the (…)

FRENTE NACIONAL CAMPESINO EZEQUIEL ZAMORA
THE ZAMORA AGENDA AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND REFORMISM
TO THE PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA AND THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD:
Two great threats are formiing over our nation, over the Venezuelan people, and its Boliviariano Revolution: the U.S. Empire is attempting to truncate the refounding of our nation and to recuperate our soil to serve its own interests and Reformism , represented by a new bureucratic corrupt political caste.
It is difficult to define (…)

On apathy By Haaretz Editorial
In today’s Haaretz Magazine, Gideon Levy tells the story of Mahmoud Shawara, a 43-year-old father of nine, who left for work on his donkey one day from his house in the village of Nuaman, near Bethlehem, was arrested by border policemen, and, after he refused to accompany the soldiers without his donkey, was tied to the donkey. The frightened donkey then galloped toward the village; Shawara sustained serious injuries all over his body, and ultimately died (…)

By Ann Talbot
Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective, Pluto Press, 2005
The publication of a new, revised edition of The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective by Tony Evans reflects the deep-going interest, especially among young people, in the question of rights. It is a book which now occupies a place on the reading lists of many international relations and human rights law courses throughout the English-speaking world. In the United States the book is (…)

“Don’t try to find the little Jesus in the beautiful pictures of ours nativity scenes, we will find him between the famished children, who this evening, will sleep tonight without having eating”
“If I don’t have conscience, I can sleep at night”
HAPPY NEW YEAR !
FELICE ANNO NUOVO AL COLLETTIVO ! (Grazie Roberto)
FELIZ AÑO NUEVO !
BONNE ANNÉE !
Esteban

Articles of Impeachment Adopted by the Committee on the Judiciary
Date:______________
Article 1 Article 2 Article 3
RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, (…)

By Patrick Cockburn
Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.
The Shia religious coalition has won a total victory in Baghdad and the south of Iraq. The Sunni Arab parties who openly or covertly support armed resistance to the US (…)

Elisabeth Schreinemacher
UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - Vietnamese victims of the defoliant known as Agent Orange wound up a month-long visit to the U.S. at the invitation of veterans, Vietnamese Americans and peace activists, to press their case for reparations from the U.S. government and the companies that made the deadly chemical.
They say an estimated 50,000 deformed children have been born to parents who were directly sprayed with Agent Orange or exposed through contaminated food and (…)

After considering his latest TV performance in defending his latest scandal, I write today to sound the alarm that our President is officially out of control. Though I had not considered it a serious possibility, after reflecting on it I agree with those who say it is time to get rolling with our impeachment option.
This is not about Bush’s stalwart though factually weak defense of the truly out of control spying on Americans. This is about the "tact" that they decided to use and the fact (…)

The generation of American leaders who fought the American Revolution and crafted the United States Constitution examined the most important issues of government. They considered (1) war and peace, (2 ) the limits to government power vs. individual liberties, (3) how officeholders should be controlled by the citizenry and (4) the raising and management of public money. That generation devised impeachment to remove tyrants and corrupt officeholders from positions of public power based on (…)