Romanians protest Chevron fracking

October 24, 2013

“We will not let them drill here if we must die for this,” said Gheorghe Hrum, a Romanian retired forest…

Haitians say: ‘Martelly must go, we want food, jobs’

October 24, 2013

Commemorating the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, thousands of Haitians marched in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and in Cap-Haitien on…

News from Latin America

October 24, 2013

Brazil Popular protests confront Brazil’s government for the second time this year. On Oct. 17, members of La Via Campesina…

Hands off School Bus Union 5!

October 23, 2013

Oct. 21— Since Oct. 8, the school bus drivers in Steelworkers Local 8751 have faced a continuously hostile barrage from…

Emergency protests held against Veolia

October 23, 2013

When Veolia Transportation committed an unfair labor practice lockout of 700 school bus drivers in Boston on Oct. 8 and…

Why we fight for a $15 minimum wage

October 23, 2013

On Oct. 24, community activists, students, members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, labor unionists and underpaid workers from every…

Shutdown crisis set back Tea Party, but mass struggle crucial to fight reaction and austerity

October 23, 2013

The government shutdown/debt-ceiling crisis evolved out of a civil war within the Republican Party between right-wing conservatives and the ultra-right…

U.S. in Colombia: Gen. Petraeus distorts reality

October 23, 2013

Students in New York City are so right-on to protest David Petraeus’ appointment as a highly paid professor at the…

U.S., France step up intervention in Africa

October 23, 2013

U.S. military operations on Oct. 5 in Libya and Somalia were neither isolated events nor solely prompted by the siege…

Detroit City Council tells EM and banks, ‘No!’

October 22, 2013

Oct. 21 — In a unanimous vote today, Detroit’s City Council refused to rubber stamp the state-appointed Emergency Manager’s plan…