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John Reed, the great American labor journalist and a founder of the Communist Party USA, was the first to bring this country the news of what had happened in Russia on Nov. 7, 1917. In “Ten Days that Shook the World,” he wrote that the workers, led by Lenin, and carrying the banner of “peace, bread and brotherhood,” had seized power.

On Oct. 12, India’s Congress Party threw in the towel. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the leader of the United Progressive Alliance, Sonia Gandhi, said they would step back from the U.S.-India nuclear deal.

For every two people detained in immigration enforcement operations, one child is left behind, according to a recent report, “Paying the Price: The impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children,” released by the National Council of La Raza and the Urban Institute.

The new crisis in Pakistan demonstrates the hypocrisy of Bush administration saber-rattling against Iran, foreign policy analysts say.

El Senado de Puerto Rico pasó una resolución, el 22 de octubre, en la cual le exige a George W. Bush que ponga en libertad a tres presos políticos puertorriqueños en cárceles norteamericanas.

La prensa independiente y no gubernamental de Egipto está tratando de resistir a los reglamentos gubernamentales que socavan a la libertad de expresión y le niega a la mayoría del público el derecho a tener una noticias balanceada y amplia.

Thousands of field and construction workers leave their residences in Ramona, Valley Center and Escondido. They take refuge in the football stadium where they believe they will receive aid just as their neighbors do. But many of these workers are undocumented. They are afraid to go out, but the fires give them no other option. When they reach the stadium, they are shocked to find immigration officials. Some are detained and deported. Many flee and disappear in the city’s landscape.

Tensiones sobre la muerte de civiles a manos de efectivos estadounidenses en Irak se empeoraron cuando tropas de EEUU mataron a 17 civiles y herieron varias docenas más, entre estas ancianos y niños en el vecindario pobre de Bagdad conocido como Ciudad Sadr el 21 de octubre.

Hoy nuevamente el presidente Chávez señaló los “errores históricos” del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) al recordar la posible venida del Che a mediados de los 60 para sumarse a la lucha armada, y el posterior apoyo electoral dado a Caldera en el 93 hasta mediados del 94 (sería bueno estudiar los Tribuna Popular para seguir la línea de actuación del PCV en ese periodo), “errores” que él achaca al dogmatismo de los comunistas venezolanos.

During World War I, the Turkish-controlled Ottoman Empire was crumbling. In the decades before the war, economic dislocation and political crisis intensified the long-standing oppression of the Armenian Christian minority. World War I (1914-1918) was a bloody war between rising and aging empires: the Ottoman Empire was allied with the German monarchy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the losing side, against an alliance of Czarist Russia, Britain, France, Japan and the United States.