NLRB ruling: Workers 1, McDonald’s 0

August 9, 2014

Labor organizing involves fighting injustice — on the picket lines, in the streets. When the bosses retaliate — and they…

Capitalism increases Ebola dangers

August 9, 2014

Aug. 7 — Ebola was identified 40 years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then called Zaire. Two…

Ukrainian Nazis and the ‘Commissar Order’

August 8, 2014

Victor Shapinov, of the Marxist organization Union Borotba (Struggle), makes the connection between the Nazi practice of extermination of communists…

An assassination that announced World War I

August 8, 2014

July 31 — One hundred years ago today a brutal assassination announced the outbreak of World War I. No, it…

Solidarity with Palestinian people

August 8, 2014

By Professor Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International League of the Peoples' Struggle Aug. 7 — We, the International League of…

Remember the Tonkin Gulf lie!

August 7, 2014

Aug. 4 is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident. On that day in 1964, officers of…

An ironic name

August 7, 2014

In mid-July there was a vigil in a South Albany, N.Y., housing complex — named the Ezra P. Prentice Homes…

Brigade defies U.S. travel ban on Cuba

August 7, 2014

Buffalo, N.Y. -- Twenty-two courageous U.S. citizens, members of the 45th Venceremos Brigade, crossed the Peace Bridge from Erie, Ontario,…

New York retail workers rally for justice

August 7, 2014

As New York City’s working class takes on more defense of working conditions for restaurant, grocery, airline, car wash, fast…

Struggle wins temporary water shutoff moratorium

August 7, 2014

New developments took place at the end of July around the struggle for water in Detroit. A class-action lawsuit was…