Mobilized on six continents—Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America—millions of people have demanded that Israel cease its attack and lift the siege on Gaza. [Includes slideshow of protests around the world.]

Jan. 5—Attention customarily turns away from news of the world during a holiday week when U.S. schools, organizations and workplaces close. But even so, outraged demonstrations to stop the U.S./Israeli bombing of Gaza flared in every major U.S. metropolitan area more than once and in some cases, daily. [Includes slideshow of protests across the country.]

The response of the world’s imperialist governments to Israel’s ferocious assault on the 1.5 million Palestinians packed into Gaza shows once again who is really calling the shots in Tel Aviv.

Workers World Party extends our deepest congratulations and solidarity to the Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban people, who are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the heroic triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

El Centro de Acción Internacional condena la criminal masacre por bombardeo en Gaza perpetrada por Israel con el apoyo de los EEUU que hasta la fecha ha causado la muerte de más de 200 palestinos/as dejando a más de 300 personas gravemente heridas.

Por 60 años, Israel ha perseguido al pueblo palestino con impunidad desafiando las resoluciones de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas y del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, las órdenes del Tribunal Internacional de Justicia, el Derecho Internacional y los derechos humanos fundamentales.

Gaza is a strip of land, four-fifths the size of the New York borough of Queens, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, of whom 800,000 are children. By entering Gaza, Israel’s war machine, backed in full by U.S. imperialism, is writing a new chapter of war crimes in world history.

Dec. 31—The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the world.

The International Action Center condemns the criminal U.S.-backed Israeli bombing of Gaza that has led to the massacre of 200 Palestinians and the serious wounding of another 300.

Statement by the youth organization FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together) on the Israeli assault on Gaza.

In an investigative article released this week, a reporter who spent a year and a half in New Orleans connects the dots on reports that have circulated ever since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 showing that Black people were dying from indiscriminate shootings as well as from drowning after Katrina.

Life-long civil rights advocate Ramsey Clark, winner of the 2008 United Nations Human Rights Award and founder of the International Action Center, held a press conference in front of the JFK Federal Building on Dec. 17 to defend Chuck Turner, an African-American community leader and five-term Boston city councilor.

Students at The New School in New York City formed the New School Radical Student Union and occupied the dining hall of a New School building on Dec. 17, demanding more accessible and democratic education.

A growing, broad-based coalition in metro Detroit is fighting to have five felony charges against people’s journalist Diane Bukowski dropped immediately.

Every major mass transit system in the country is in crisis, with many imposing fare hikes and service cuts. The worst case is probably New York, where the transit authority plans to raise fares, cut bus lines, close stations and lay off workers. A new bridge toll is also being considered

Transit riders in Buffalo have a right to feel excited about their efforts to stop a two-phased, 50-cent rate hike—25 cents now and another 25 cents in six months.

Gov. David Paterson has announced his proposed New York State budget for fiscal year 2009-2010, which begins July 1. Among the list of regressive tax hikes and devastating cuts to almost every state service, from education to health care, is yet another proposed cut to the state’s paltry indigent legal services budget.

Even while trillions of dollars were being poured into the Pentagon budget, education in the United States was slipping behind the rest of the world.

The 7th biannual Southern Human Rights Organizing Conference (SHROC VII) was held in Durham, N.C., from Dec. 12 to 14.

Striking Moncure Plywood workers from IAM local W369 rallied outside Chatham County courthouse in Pittsboro, N.C.