AFGE national vice-president, Augusta Thomas, on acquittal of George Zimmerman

July 22, 2013

Augusta Thomas, national vice president for women and fair practices for the American Federation of Government Employees based in Washington,…

South Bay labor resolution condemns the killing of Trayvon Martin

July 22, 2013

The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the South Bay AFL- CIO Labor Council, at the general membership meeting held on…

In Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital workers lead struggle to save healthcare

July 22, 2013

In an ongoing struggle to stop the closing of four hospitals in Brooklyn, N.Y., a protest was held July 15…

Quebec train disaster was waiting to happen

July 21, 2013

In North America’s worst rail disaster since 1989, a train carrying fracked oil from North Dakota exploded in the small…

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 9

July 21, 2013

Women and the struggle for human sociality For anthropologists who subscribe to an evolutionary materialist approach to human origins, the…

Solidarity expressed with Narragansett Nation

July 21, 2013

In searing summer heat, a 10-person delegation from the Rhode Island Peoples Assembly traveled from Providence to the Narragansett Nation,…

U.S. and Cuba open postal talks

July 21, 2013

Cuban diplomats met with U.S. State Department and Postal Service officials on June 18-19 to discuss the normalization of mail…

Free the Korean freighter and crew!

July 20, 2013

When poor Somalis seize ships off the coast of their country, they are called pirates. But when Panama does the…

Behind Xi Jinping’s call for a return to Marxism

July 20, 2013

The president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, has been issuing statements that seek to curb the corrosion…

Henri Alleg, 1921-2013, revolutionary and exemplary communist

July 20, 2013

By Miguel Urbano Rodrigues Henri Alleg (July 20, 1921 - July 17, 2013), born Harry Salem to Polish-Jewish parents in…