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Jewish peace group supports responsible disengagement and settlement evacuation
CHICAGO - Brit Tzedek v’Shalom/The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, a grassroots U.S. peace organization seeking a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, today submitted over 10,000 signatures of American Jews calling on the Israeli and U.S. governments to provide funding to assist settlers to voluntarily relocate from the West Bank to Israel proper (within the pre-1967 borders).
The (…)

Scores of Dead
"The Star" Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq.
Lieutenant-General Mark Kimmitt admitted on Tuesday that "about 70"
American and other Western troops had died during the Iraqi insurgency since April 1 but he made no mention of the mercenaries, apparently fearful that the full total of Western dead would (…)

Qana, where Christ’s first miracle took place;
Qana, where the lateste glorious action by the israely army took place on the 18th of april 1996: the killing of 100 civilians, mainly olders, women and children, who found shelter in a site of the UNIFIL (UN Interim Forces In Lebanon).
Qana, a symbol of the sufferings of the Lebanese, of the tragedies of Middle-East: 50 years of slaughters, destructions, sorrow and pain.
Till when ?
The story of a unforgettable visit, by Lucie Heymann. (…)

So President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and that’s okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the West Bank. That’s okay. Taking land from Palestinians who have owned that land for generations, that’s okay. UN Security Council Resolution 242 says that land cannot be acquired by war. Forget it. That’s okay.
Does President George Bush actually work for al-Qa’ida? What does this mean? That George Bush cares more about his re-election than he does (…)

Spain’s new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has given orders for Spain’s 1,300 troops in Iraq to come home as soon as possible.
Zapatero made the announcement in a televised statement just a day after he was sworn in as prime minister following his Socialist party’s upset victory in a March 14 general election.
His decision, taken much sooner than expected, creates more problems for the United States whose forces are locked in the fiercest fighting in Iraq since last year’s (…)

MADRID, Spain
The prime minister ordered Spanish troops pulled out of Iraq as soon as possible Sunday, fulfilling a campaign pledge to a nation still recovering from terrorist bombings that al-Qaida militants said were reprisal for Spain’s support of the war.
The new Socialist prime minister issued the abrupt recall just hours after his government was sworn in, saying there was no sign the United States would meet his demands for staying in Iraq - United Nations control of the postwar (…)

A statement of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism 545 Eight Avenue, 14th Floor NE NY, NY 10018 national@cc-ds.org
The prospect of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East must not be held hostage to the personal political fates of the President of the United States or the Prime Minister of Israel. Nor can it be dictated by the two officials’ most reactionary supporters. Whatever short- term political calculations they and their advisors have made, the stance (…)

Oakland. Ca and Bagdad
The disaster that is the occupation of Iraq is much more than the war that plays nightly across U.S. television screens. The violence of grinding poverty, exacerbated by economic sanctions after the first Gulf War, has been deepened by the US invasion. Every day the economic policies of the occupying authorities create more hunger among Iraq’s working people, transforming them into a pool of low-wage, semi-employed labor, desperate for jobs at almost any price. (…)

Doomed from its inception, the Bush administration’s crusade to "liberate" Iraq has become a violent conflagration of conflicting intentions and discordant ideologies, with the casualties and the potential for disaster increasing daily. The wildfire of nationalism has begun to sweep the land, uniting Sunnis and Shiites for the first time in centuries against a common enemy, the Americans. Already, more troops are being injected into the equation, and the repeated American mantra is that we (…)

A million worker march is planned for mid October 2004. This mobilization, first initiated by the ILWU, local 10, is in response to the attacks upon working families in America and the millions of jobs lost under the current administration with the complicity of Congress. The working class has not suffered such hardships since the Great Depression. Help us organize and fight back.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
Thirty-six years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. summoned working people across America (…)