The People’s Champ — beautiful, brilliant and great

June 7, 2016

The champ has passed. “The Greatest” has gone. Muhammad Ali is dead. It was a foregone conclusion that this day…

A fighter against war and racism

June 7, 2016

Muhammad Ali died June 3 after a decades-long battle against Parkinson’s disease. In addition to being a phenomenal athlete, he…

Workers say French anti-labor law must go

June 7, 2016

Hundreds of thousands of French workers, youth and students have come out into the streets of France nine times since…

Trabajadores agrícolas de Nueva York luchan por derecho a organizarse

June 7, 2016

Trabajadores agrícolas luchan valiente y tenazmente por el derecho a organizarse en Nueva York. Actualmente, no hay una protección jurídica…

Free Rev. Edward Pinkney!

June 3, 2016

Activists from around Michigan converged in Benton Harbor in the southwest portion of the state on May 28 for a…

On the picket line

June 3, 2016

AT&T workers win grievance strike Communications Workers Local 9509, representing some 1,700 AT&T workers in San Diego, walked off the…

Capitalism, in brief

June 3, 2016

A short primer on capitalism: 1. The current crisis is a crisis of capitalism. It is not a crisis of…

African liberation struggles drove Portugal’s April 1974 revolution

June 3, 2016

It was April of 1974. A popular folk song serving as a secret signal to the captains in Portugal’s Armed…

Interview with the GDR’s Margot Honecker — ‘The past was brought back’

June 3, 2016

Margot Honecker, born in 1927, former minister of education of the German Democratic Republic and widow of longtime Socialist Unity…

Black Lives Matter, the elections and self-determination

June 2, 2016

Let’s be honest, Bernie Sanders and his campaign of “democratic socialism” have struck a chord with young people and the…