International

I noticed that recent CPUSA statements on the Middle East put a heavy weight on Israel’s responsibility and much lighter weight on Hezbollah or Hamas. Why doesn’t the CPUSA take a more even-handed approach?

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.

TEL AVIV, Israel — The biggest Israeli demonstration against the war to date took place here Aug. 5 in the heart of the city’s downtown, an area that is considered especially right-wing.

A solo días después de que una bomba israelí cayo sobre un edificio residencial en la aldea libanesa del sur, Qana, matando a 62 civiles, entre estos 35 niños – provocando horror mundial – el gobierno israelí bruscamente rechazó llamadas mundiales en favor de un cese de fuego inmediato.

Oficiales aduaneros de Estados Unidos detuvieron a una delegación de la Brigada Juan Rius Rivera por visitar a Cuba en solidaridad con el pueblo de ese país hermano cuando regresaron por la ciudad de Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Los 60 puertorriqueños regresaban después de hacer trabajo voluntario en Cuba.

“No vamos a pagar ninguna multa, y vamos a exigir nuestros derechos en las audiencias de Washington, y vamos a armar un alboroto por un cambio de política hacia Cuba”. Estas fueron las palabras de Ellen Bernstein, vocera del grupo ecuménico neoyorquino, Pastores por la Paz.

We wish to extend to you and the Cuban people our very best wishes for a speedy recovery from your recent surgery. We hope you will be able to quickly resume your invaluable work in the struggle for world peace, justice and equality

This year, on the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stakes are higher than ever in the struggle to eliminate a destructive power that could end life as we know it.

Only days after an Israeli bomb smashed into a residential building in the southern Lebanon village of Qana, killing at least 62 civilians, 35 of them children — and provoking worldwide shock, horror and outrage — the Israeli government brusquely rejected worldwide calls for an immediate cease-fire.