Vigil for Lumad hits U.S. role in Philippines

September 25, 2015

The New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines held a vigil in New York’s Union Square on Sept.…

Pickets demand — ‘Free Petrenko and Moldovan protesters!’

September 25, 2015

Protesters demanding freedom for Grigory Petrenko and imprisoned Red Bloc activists picketed outside the Republic of Moldova’s Permanent Mission to…

UAW-Chrysler contract: Jobs threatened, two-tier pay stays

September 23, 2015

Just 19 hours after the old contract between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the United Auto Workers expired on Sept. 14,…

On the picket line

September 23, 2015

$15 minimum wage proposed for N.Y. state workers New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sept. 10 that the Wage Board…

Phoney charges — A tool of repression in Colombia

September 23, 2015

By Húbert Ballesteros Húbert “Huber” Ballesteros is a peasant leader from Fensuagro (National Unitarian Agricultural Trade Union Federation) and the…

Western wildfires spawned by capitalism

September 22, 2015

Sept. 20 -- Five people have been killed by ferocious wildfires sweeping through California, including a disabled woman burned to…

Stewart detention center uprising resists U.S. immigration system’s brutality

September 22, 2015

Lumpkin, Ga. -- On Sept. 3 at about 10:30 p.m., Corrections Corporation of America management deployed their Special Operations Response Team…

Imperialist wars leave migrants stranded and abused

September 22, 2015

Sept. 21 -- Tens of thousands of migrants are living under precarious conditions in Hungary and Croatia as well as…

Confederate symbols condemned at int’l bike race

September 22, 2015

Richmond, Va., Sept. 20 -- When organizers of an international cycling race in Richmond, Va., the former capital of the Confederacy,…

Honor Black history, not Confederate shrines

September 22, 2015

We publish here the statement of Ana Edwards, chair of the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project of the Defenders for…