TAKE ACTION: Ukrainian anti-fascist activist kidnapped

June 24, 2014

June 24 — Maria Matyushenko, an activist with the anti-fascist organization Union Borotba (Struggle), was kidnapped and her apartment ransacked…

Casey Kasem kept his feet on the ground

June 24, 2014

Entertainer and political activist Casey Kasem, 82, died on June 15 after a long illness. Kasem was “more likely to…

Labor appeal for Boston school bus drivers’ union

June 23, 2014

The following June 11 letter was sent out to the labor movement and signed by Myles Calvey, business manager, International…

Editorial: ¡EUA fuera de Irak!

June 23, 2014

16 de junio 2014 Irak está de nuevo frente a la atención mundial. El 15 de junio, el gobierno de…

Niñas/os migrantes encarcelados en la frontera

June 23, 2014

En respuesta a la oleada de noticias sobre miles de niñas/os migrantes atrapados por la Seguridad Nacional (DHS), el Procurador…

Boston School Bus drivers’ union, supporters call for Solidarity Day III

June 23, 2014

Going to Boston to help build support for the School Bus Drivers, United Steelworkers Local 8751 was a unique and…

‘Obvious Child’ a breakthrough on abortion rights

June 22, 2014

On some issues, U.S. movies lag decades behind social change. Abortion is one of them, especially when statistically one woman…

Anti-war protests in Ukraine expose bogus ‘ceasefire’ plan

June 21, 2014

June 20 — An anti-war protest by 100 women shut down the Chernivtsi-Zhitomir highway near the town of Mahala in…

On the picket line

June 21, 2014

S.F. transit drivers protest contract with sick-out More than 500 drivers of San Francisco’s buses, cable cars, streetcars and light…

South African miners’ strike shakes big firms

June 20, 2014

Since Jan. 23, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union has led 70,000 of its members in a strike in…