From 1961 to 1999, Victor Perlo’s “People vs. Profits” column in the Daily World and the People’s Weekly World set the standard for a Marxist analysis of U.S. capitalism. 
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Aug. 12, 2006
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CHICAGO — “It’s time, past time, that our soldiers come back home to their families” from Iraq, said Gerald McEntee, international president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, in his keynote address to nearly 6,000 convention delegates and guests who assembled here Aug. 8.
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MINNEAPOLIS — If Keith Ellison is elected in November to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, he will bring to the U.S. House of Representatives a fresh progressive voice in tradition of Paul Wellstone. He will also be the first African American congressman from Minnesota and the first Muslim in the U.S. Congress.
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A Republican bill that hid a huge, wolfish tax break for the wealthy inside the sheep’s clothing of an increase in the minimum wage crashed and burned in the Senate on Aug. 3.
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ALBANY, Nueva York — Asegurar los derechos al voto y derrocar a la extrema derecha fueron los temas de muchos de los oradores en la “Cumbre de Feministas Jóvenes” y la conferencia nacional anual de la Organización Nacional para Mujeres (NOW por sus siglas inglés) que se llevó a cabo el 21 al 23 de julio en la capital del estado de Nueva York.
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WASHINGTON — Un informe de un grupo de expertos del Colegio de Abogados Norteamericano respaldó a la democracia y a gobierno por ley el 23 de julio al declararse firmemente contra el uso del presidente George W. Bush de las “declaraciones al firmar” con fines de anular leyes aprobadas por el Congreso.
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“Godless” is a good preview of what candidates with a peace, health, environmental and women’s rights focus will face in the fall elections. Why? The Bushites know winning on the issues will be difficult so they are putting their focus on emotion.
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Mako, the Japan-born actor who used his Oscar nomination for the 1966 film “The Sand Pebbles” to push for better roles for Asian American actors, died July 21. He was 72.
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Featuring Tom DeLay grinning like a Cheshire cat throughout the film, “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress” chronicles the shenanigans of “the poster boy of corruption.”
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Those of us who come from the first wave of disability rights advocates began our struggle within the civil rights movement of the 1960s. We learned an important lesson from that movement as to how a minority of citizens could change the way a society views the rights of all the people.
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