By SA Canada / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action Until Aug. 31 the labour-based New Democratic Party had declined to demand that Canadian troops leave Afghanistan—much less take the side of the popular resistance to the Zionist apartheid state in Palestine and the invasion of Lebanon. Then NDP federal Leader Jack Layton issued a … Continue reading NDP Calls for Canadian Troops Out of Afghanistan
Month: September 2006
Drug Profiteers & Government Doom AIDS Victims
By Barry Weisleder / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action TORONTO—The International AIDS Conference, held here in August, was the largest ever, attracting some 26,000 participants. But many must have gone home disappointed. Despite a headline-grabbing donation by Bill and Melinda Gates to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, and the release of promising trial … Continue reading Drug Profiteers & Government Doom AIDS Victims
Bush Spy Program – Down But Not Out
By Joe Auciello / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action On Aug. 17, ruling in favor of free speech and privacy, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rejected the Bush administration’s rationales for a spying program that operated outside the law and ordered the operation shut down. The government immediately filed an appeal, and the … Continue reading Bush Spy Program – Down But Not Out
U.S. Authorizes a “Transition Plan” for Cuba
By George Saunders / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action Because of Fidel Castro’s enormous authority and the central political office that he holds, questions of leadership of the Cuban Revolution, and of its stability and survivability, have been posed by his temporary transfer of authority to his brother, Raul, and to others. In a … Continue reading U.S. Authorizes a “Transition Plan” for Cuba
Behind Mexico’s Post-Electoral Crisis
By Jamie Gonzalez / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action MEXICO CITY–Huge rallies and demonstrations demanding a total recount, ballot box by ballot box, have been held in Mexico City since the conservative Felipe Calderón was announced as having an advantage of around 300,000 votes at the July 2 presidential elections. One of the demonstrations … Continue reading Behind Mexico’s Post-Electoral Crisis
Gaza: Israel’s Shooting Gallery
by Gerry Foley / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action newspaper Throughout the assault on Lebanon, there was no let up on Israeli attacks in Gaza. And in the Israeli military’s shooting gallery, there has been no ceasefire. On Aug. 25, Israeli planes fired missiles at two buildings wounding nine Palestinians. The first strike was … Continue reading Gaza: Israel’s Shooting Gallery
Hundreds Meet to Launch New Immigrant Rights Alliance
By Jason Cain & Wayne McElyea / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action The biggest and most authoritative assembly yet of immigrant rights activists debated strategy and tactics, and launched a new organization—the National Alliance for Immigrant Rights (NAIR)—at the National Immigrant Rights Strategy Convention, held in suburban Chicago Aug. 11-13. Such a gathering was … Continue reading Hundreds Meet to Launch New Immigrant Rights Alliance
ICE Steps Up Immigrant Raids
September 2006 issue of Socialist Action newspaper The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is cooperating to an unprecedented degree with local and state police across the country to apprehend undocumented workers. The pretext is often a manhunt for an immigrant with felony convictions. Anecdotal evidence shows that ICE raids may also be targeting prominent activists … Continue reading ICE Steps Up Immigrant Raids
A Visit to Lori Berenson in Peru
by Lea Wood / September issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Mark visited Lori for Father's Day weekend with Lea Wood, the Vermont Coordinator of the Committee to Free Lori Berenson. Lori and Lea have been exchanging letters since 1997. Lea is a remarkable individual and, as she approaches her 90th birthday, serves as an inspiration … Continue reading A Visit to Lori Berenson in Peru
Israel & U.S. Set Back in Their Brutal Attack on Lebanon
by Gerry Foley / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action The month-long war between Hezbullah and Israel, in which Israel tried to hold the entire country of Lebanon as a hostage, was halted by uneasy truce on Aug.14. It seems that none of the parties involved expected the truce to last. Only days after agreeing … Continue reading Israel & U.S. Set Back in Their Brutal Attack on Lebanon
Iraqi Shiites Clash With U.S. Led Occupation
by Gerry Foley / September issue of Socialist Action Newspaper The major political development in Iraq in recent weeks has been the developing confrontation between the movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr and the forces of the United States and its virtual auxiliary, the so-called Iraqi army. These tensions reached a peak in a two-day fire-fight … Continue reading Iraqi Shiites Clash With U.S. Led Occupation
Mexican Revolutionary Socialists Reject Electoral Fraud
by Liga de Unidad Socialista / September 2006 Massive protests have been continuing in Mexico against the faked election of the rightist candidate for president, Felipe Calderon of the PAN (National Action Party). Organizers estimated the demonstration in Mexico City at the end of July at 2 million persons, many of whom are still camping … Continue reading Mexican Revolutionary Socialists Reject Electoral Fraud
Film Review: “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
by Gaetana Caldwell-Smith / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action Actor/activist Martin Sheen narrates director Chris Paine’s documentary, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”—which should be on a double bill with Al Gore’s film about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” In one of the opening shots in “Electric Car,” as a sleek silver sedan zooms silently … Continue reading Film Review: “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
News From the Jeff Mackler for U.S. Senate Campaign
by Mark Ostapiak / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action Newspaper With the U.S. war machine and its heavily armed client regime in Israel center stage in the political arena, Jeff Mackler, Socialist Action write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in California, addressed a crowd of 5000 at the Aug. 12 antiwar rally in … Continue reading News From the Jeff Mackler for U.S. Senate Campaign
The History of Imperialist Aggression in Lebanon
by Andrew Pollack / September 2006 issue of Socialist Action Israel’s 2006 war fits a long pattern of intervention—a pattern of unprovoked, wholesale murder, covered up by deception. From its start the Zionist movement had plans for southern Lebanon. Israeli historian Benny Morris in “Righteous Victims” reports that the Zionists presented a map for their … Continue reading The History of Imperialist Aggression in Lebanon