Book Review: Cowboy in Caracas

Almost all of the recent books about Venezuela focus on the big changes at the top – the government of President Hugo Chavez and the new ministries and social programmes or the coups, sabotage and propaganda by local oligarchs and US imperialism.



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Plekhanov, Marx and Engels on Freedom and Necessity

For many revolutionary organizations to act on their desire to further the socialist cause, it is necessary to focus not on revolutionary posturing but on a "reform" initiative, namely the defeat of the Republicans in the 2008 election.



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Can the Left Win France Back?

Twelve years after Francois Mitterrand, France's first, and to date only Socialist president, left office, the political landscape in both the presidential palace and the National Assembly has moved gloomily toward right-wing social and economic policies.



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CtW Polls Shows Economic Security is Number One Concern of Working Families

The Working American Dream Agenda 2007

On April 4, 2007, Change to Win revealed the results of "The Working American Dream Agenda", a follow-up survey to the 2006 American Dream Survey.  Among other findings, the new survey found that an overwhelming majority of American working people -- nearly 70 percent -- now say that their number one concern is simply basic security, rather than opportunity.

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Video: Puerto Rican Mother Removes US Flag from Son's Coffin

Mother of killed Puerto Rican soldier Jayson Nunez removes U.S. flag from her son's coffin and encourages others to oppose the war in Iraq: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KY5biA0v8I

Dump Don Imus

Racism doesn't belong on the airwaves folks. Google the NOW site and add your voice to the dump Imus movement.

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A New Beginning for ENDA

Civil rights and labor activists will be pushing the current Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).



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Bush Spreads Guantanamo Gangrene Around the World

Jumah Al Dossari has been rotting in Guatanamo for five years now without ever having been charged of an offense. The prisoner believes “he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law,” his lawyer says.



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Domestic and International Class Struggle

In his eulogy at the graveside of Marx, Engels pointed to the two great discoveries of Marx, the discovery of the materialist concept of history and the discovery of surplus value as the source of capitalist profit.



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The Colonial Drama of Israel and Palestine

Seen from this side of the Mediterranean, the Western (and especially European) view on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict exhibits a strange trait.



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