On West Coast, bosses threaten lockout of longshore workers

February 9, 2015

Oakland, Calif. -- The Pacific Maritime Association announced on Feb. 4 their intent to lock out the International Longshore and…

Marriage equality movement progresses

February 9, 2015

Bulletin: As of Feb. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will not stay a federal court ruling ordering same-sex marriages to…

Novorossiyan militia encircle Kiev regime’s troops

February 9, 2015

European Union leaders made a flurry of diplomatic visits in early February, holding panicky negotiations with Kiev and Moscow to…

Wisconsin anti-worker guv targets public education

February 9, 2015

Resistance to Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget proposal — Senate Bill 21, released in early February — is ongoing across…

Drop charges on ‘Black Friday 14’!

February 9, 2015

On so-called Black Friday 2014, considered the busiest shopping day of the year one day after “Thanksgiving,” 14 Black activists pulled off…

African-American jockeys battle racism

February 9, 2015

The Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013.  It  opened in 1863, and became a…

Oil refinery workers begin major strike

February 6, 2015

Catlettsburg, Ky., Feb. 5 — Oil refinery workers here are on what they say is their biggest strike since 1980.…

Louisiana’s African slave revolt of 1811

February 6, 2015

Some writers today note that an often hidden and misrepresented anti-slavery rebellion in 1811 along the German Coast in Louisiana…

On the picket line

February 6, 2015

U.S. oil workers strike Shell The United Steelworkers called a strike on Feb. 1 at nine plants run by Royal…

Anti-Islam frenzy in France targets kids

February 6, 2015

An 8-year-old boy in Nice, a small city on France’s Mediterranean coast near Italy, was hauled out of school to…