Students protest Chicago school closings

December 8, 2017

By Becca Tellgren-Leng and Thomas Tellgren-Leng Chicago Students at Harper High School staged a sit-in on Dec. 1, protesting the…

Syracuse University union drive: Grad workers denounce tax plan

December 8, 2017

Syracuse, N.Y. — Worker outrage and organizing was the order of the day on Nov. 30, as some 150 members…

Seattle school bus drivers strike

December 8, 2017

Four hundred school bus drivers held a one-day strike Nov. 29 against First Student, the big national contractor. The strike…

Brooklyn, N.Y., tenants insist ‘The city is not for sale!’

December 8, 2017

Brooklyn, N.Y., tenants against gentrification were threatened with arrest on Nov. 30 during a New York City Council meeting. Earlier,…

Durham anti-racist activists: ‘Be a witness in our defense!’

December 7, 2017

By LeiLani Dowell and Ben Carroll Durham, N.C. Activists and community and family members gathered here the morning of Dec.…

Boston cop’s transphobic rant at potential juror subverted justice for Sam Smith

December 7, 2017

Boston — A struggle is building to win a new trial to free Sam Smith of Roxbury, Mass., a Black…

Solidarity and security in revolutionary times

December 7, 2017

This talk was given on Nov. 19 at the Workers World Party national conference in Newark, N.J. Who here is…

Serious questions after notorious Philly DA appointed

December 7, 2017

Longtime Philadelphia civil rights attorney and newly elected District Attorney Larry Krasner has appointed former DA and retired State Supreme…

Steinle verdict: Bigots call for sanctuary cities boycott

December 7, 2017

San Francisco — Furious, threatening tweets by #45. These were the president’s response to the Dec. 1 acquittal of undocumented…

Socialist methodology and the mass struggle: Lessons from Detroit and beyond

December 7, 2017

This year represents the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia — a monumental, cataclysmic, socially transformative occurrence which served…