Peace
The struggle to end the occupation of Iraq
February 20, 2004Opinion Progressive forces in Iraq, among which the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) plays a key role, suffered immense losses in dead and imprisoned under the right-wing Saddam Hussein dictatorship. Yet they always opposed any outside intervention...
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Momentum builds for March 20 peace rallies
February 20, 2004NEW YORK – Preparations are well under way for another major display of antiwar sentiment here on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. “People are responding to this because...
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Soldiers dad: Aid needed for Baghdad hospital
February 20, 2004SAN DIEGO – Fernando Suárez del Solar is a man with a mission. Meeting this determined and compassionate father at a local social justice center here (a pink house on a working-class street corner) evokes a...
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In slap at Bush, Senate to probe WMD lies
February 19, 2004The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence handed President Bush a direct challenge when it announced Feb. 12 that it will investigate whether Bush and other top officials misused and manipulated intelligence to make a case for...
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South Carolinians fight for free speech
February 19, 2004CHARLESTON, S.C. – When George W. Bush spoke at a waterfront terminal here Feb. 5, two days after the South Carolina primary, scores of protesters picketed outside chanting “U.S. out of Iraq.” The demonstration was sponsored...
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