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Every year in the bitter cold mid-January, tens of thousands gather in the German capital of Berlin to commemorate the assassinated revolutionaries Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. What's the story behind the biggest annual march of the political left in this Central European country?

Marymount College is a small liberal arts college located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The beginning of the spring terms marked a fundamental change in the way MMC is administered. A new president - Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D., a conservative budget-slashing cowboy - was selected. Since his inauguration in July, much needed programs began to see their budgets cut, and drastic change from Marymount�s progressive tradition.

Our country is being devastated by the Bush administration. Like the miners in Pennsylvania who survived because they stuck together, we the people can pull ourselves out of danger with our vote in the 2002 elections.

It is increasingly clear that the Bush Administration is dead set on invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam Hussein despite U.S. and international law, domestic or foreign opposition. This new
escalation of thewar on terroris is the most dangerous step yet by the Bush administration, which has put the world closer to global conflict than at any time in a generation.

"Drop the Rock, Drop the Rock, Drop the Rock!!!" was the mantra that resonated from 500+ angry voices on a blistery hot day at the Harlem State Office Building on June 15.

Some 10,000 labor activists and youth from across the country gathered in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, on June 9th to demand the immediate release of the Charleston 5.
All five are union members that have been under house arrest since January 2000 on felony charges of inciting a riot. They face up to five years in jail.

Low income communities of color, whether in Africa, the Carribean, Asia or in your own neighborhood, are feeling the impact of AIDS. The United Nations Global Conference on AIDS was recently held in New York to respond to the AIDS crisis. Three thousand people from all over the world attended both to decry the actions of U.S. corporations and promote solutions for prevention and treatment.

In the end, it was the collective voice of a California youth movement that rang loudest. The youth chanted, waved placards and raised clenched fists to protest plans to build the biggest per capita juvenile hall in the country in Oakland's Alameda County.

Since he entered office, President Bush has made it his business to restrict and eliminate women’s rights. The man who said that he would do everything in his power to restrict abortions is indeed carrying out the mandate from the religious right.

On April 22, a broad coalition including organized labor, environmental groups and community groups will converge on Quebec City in the Canadian province of Quebec to demonstrate against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which will impose NAFTA’s “free-trade�? policies of job displacement, union busting, deregulation, privatization and environmental destruction on the entire western hemisphere.

For the second year in a row the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) held the April 4 Student Labor Day of Action to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed on that date while organizing sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968. This year, the 33rd Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King, student organizations and unions staged actions in over 80 cities.

30 members of the Youth of SIP (Party for Socialist Power) in Turkey were detained and arrested April 6 while they were putting up posters against NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Tommy Thompson,
Governor of Wisconsin,
Now Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Under George W. Bush,
Stands stiff and looks caustically at the camera...

After only three days in the White House, illegitimate President “Dubya�? Bush officially unveiled his national education plan, titled “No child left behind.�? It is a close call on what will actually be adopted by the narrowly divided House and 50/50 Senate. On the campaign trail, Bush prided himself as the “education president.�? We all predicted that what he meant by that was the dismantling of public ed as we know it, but who figured it would come so soon?

Youth and students are feeling the brunt of the right-wing attack today. The struggle to preserve and improve public education is one of them and boils down to our fundamental democratic rights. Bush and associates have on their agenda to decimate social services and education is one of them. Their solution is simply privatization.

Lucy Parsons was a Black woman, a communist, a fighter for the working class and a valiant defender of political prisoners. Yet she is almost unkown here among U.S. progressives.

For many Americans, Inauguration Day is an elaborate ceremony held to acknowledge their country’s new president. In the past, I sat by passively as presidents were sworn in as the holders of America's highest office. This Inauguration Day was different. This Inauguration Day, I joined with thousands of others in Washington, DC to protest the illegitimate “election�? of George W. Bush.

Thousands of young people from around the world will gather in Algiers, Algeria August 8-16, 2001, for the 15th World Festival of Youth & Students (WFYS). This year’s festival will mark the continuation of the festival movement that began in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1947 and has continued up through the 14th Festival in Havana, Cuba, 1997.

Facts gathered by various news sources, yet basically ignored by major news networks...

The accusations of racism regarding the experiences of many Blacks and Latinos at the polls in Florida echo the historical exclusion of people of color from American political life. This is the real crisis – not the chads – and it should come as no surprise.