Peace

WASHINGTON — Fighters for justice and peace greeted a Pentagon memo saying that 1,000 or more detainees at secret U.S. military prisons around the world are protected by the Geneva Conventions. They called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

Former Army Pfc. Steven Green was arrested this month and charged with raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her, her parents and her 5-year-old sister on March 12 in Mahmudiyah, Iraq.

The series of bomb blasts on the suburban railways in Mumbai is a vicious terrorist attack. The death toll has touched 173 and is still rising. Hundreds have been injured, many of them seriously. The attacks in the Kashmir valley on the same day targeting tourists underline the similar aim of disrupting normal life and restoration of peace.

Friday afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center on Chicago’s south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said, “Okay, you’ve had your 15 minutes, it’s time to go.” “You can’t be in here protesting,” Officer Adkins said, pointing to my Veterans For Peace shirt.

We are writing this press release from the Customs dock in Reynosa, Mexico, having successfully passed across the US border this morning without incident.

The Communist Party USA strongly condemns the latest acts of aggression by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people. In the past days, the Israeli Army has launched a series of attacks on civilian infrastructure, including bridges, water supply facilities and Gaza’s only power station.

PHILADELPHIA — As other grannies and their supporters sang peace songs, spoke out against the war and displayed their colorful banners and signs outside a U.S. Armed Forces Center here, 11 grandmothers tried unsuccessfully June 28 to enlist for service in Iraq. “Take us, not Philadelphia’s children and grandchildren,” they told the recruiters. “Let them live their lives.”

The Communist Party USA strongly condemns the latest acts of aggression by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people. In the past days, the Israeli Army has launched a series of attacks on civilian infrastructure, including bridges, water supply facilities and Gaza’s only power station. In the face of the attacks, coupled with the ongoing withholding of humanitarian aid, Palestine faces a humanitarian crisis.

Even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice condemns North Korea for threatening to test a new missile that could theoretically deliver a nuclear weapon to the Western Aleutians, the Pentagon is poised to develop its own new generation of nuclear-capable long-range delivery systems

The Communist Party of Israel denounces the government Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz, which has aggravated the bloody war against the Palestinian people, especially against the Palestinian inhabitants in the Gaza Strip, and kidnapped ministers, members of the parliament and senior Palestinian officers.