2001 - February

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.