Southern labor hosts assembly: ‘Build a workers’ alliance!’

September 13, 2012

Charlotte, N.C. — Over 300 Southern workers, trade unionists and community allies gathered for the Southern Workers Assembly on Sept.…

Rank-and-file labor leader Saladin Muhammad: ’What is our charge as Southern workers?’

September 13, 2012

The following opening remarks were made by Saladin Muhammad, coordinator of the Southern International Worker Justice Campaign and retired United…

Mumia Abu-Jamal fights life imprisonment

September 13, 2012

As activists gear up for a Sept. 14 event in New York promoting the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, the…

Leslie Feinberg stays firm: ‘Free CeCe McDonald!’

September 13, 2012

  This article uses the gender-neutral pronouns hir and ze. Leslie Feinberg, an internationally known and widely respected author, editor…

Atlanta remembers Troy Davis on Sept. 21

September 13, 2012

“We need to dismantle this unjust system …” Troy Davis had written shortly before his execution by the state of…

Demonstrate against racism in Wyandotte schools

September 13, 2012

A picket line went up in front of the Wyandotte Public Schools headquarters right outside the city of Detroit on…

Fred Hampton Sr’s 1969 assassination commemorated

September 13, 2012

Chicago — This year as every year, Comrade Mother Akua Njeri, the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, the Black Panther Party…

Students, community allies all support Chicago teachers on strike

September 12, 2012

Sept. 10 — The Chicago Teachers Union, in a just struggle for a fair contract, went out on strike during…

Obama, the Democratic Party and the working class

September 12, 2012

The Republican Party is so blatantly reactionary, so racist, so anti-immigrant, so openly hostile to women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…

DNC street protests hit corporate polluter, demand freedom for Cuban Five

September 12, 2012

Downtown Charlotte, N.C., home to the national headquarters of Bank of America and regional headquarters of Wells Fargo, was buzzing…