On the Picket Line: Teachers & energy workers win, Southern unions hold the line

February 22, 2019

Chicago charter teachers win historic strike victory! Education workers, parents and students won the second-longest charter-teacher strike in U.S. history…

Seattle Black Lives Matter fights racism in schools

February 22, 2019

Black Lives Matter at School was held Feb. 4-8 and beyond at schools all across the U.S., including Seattle. This…

A return to Leninism: The centennial anniversary of the Comintern

February 21, 2019

Larry Holmes is the First Secretary of Workers World Party. V.I. Lenin, the principal leader of the Russian Revolution, opened…

In West Virginia win, rank-and-file education workers block privatization

February 21, 2019

West Virginia educators walked out, again, on Feb. 19, in a reprise of their 2018 militancy. The statewide walkout was…

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan: ‘I proudly stand with President Maduro and the people of Venezuela’

February 21, 2019

This statement originally appeared on Sheehan’s Jan. 27 “Soapbox” blogspot. Since Hugo Chávez Frias became president of Venezuela in 1998…

ICE ramps up state terrorism in the South

February 21, 2019

Feb. 16 -- The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has ramped up its presence in the South, specifically in North…

Belgian unions stage general strike

February 21, 2019

Over 50 percent of Belgian workers are unionized, so when the unions went out on a 24-hour strike on the…

Trump’s ‘national emergency’ protested

February 21, 2019

By Wyatt Miller Minneapolis Article published first in fightbacknews.org. Hundreds of people poured into the streets Feb. 16 to demonstrate…

An appreciation of Malcolm X from a young Black activist

February 21, 2019

Feb. 21, 2019, is the 54th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X.   “Who told you to hate the…

No walls, no wars!

February 19, 2019

On Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day in the U.S., the world once again witnessed a president with no heart. One might…