Global warming, Trump and China

January 11, 2017

The year 2016 just ended was the hottest on record. So was 2015. And 2014 before that. Each year, new…

Trump, Russia and the Democrats: The enemy is at home

January 10, 2017

As the inauguration of the president-elect approaches, the popular movement that has arisen to oppose his reactionary program is facing…

Chicago and racist oppression

January 10, 2017

This is a violent capitalist country. Shootings, beatings, murders occur every day. It is historical fact, beginning with the war…

Long live the whistleblowers!

January 10, 2017

Look behind the drumbeat of attacks on Russia for allegedly causing Trump to be elected and what you find is…

Under capitalism: ‘They don’t really care about us’

January 10, 2017

Six-year-old Toussaint Birwe was killed by a 14-car State Department convoy that barreled through his hometown of Mokong in the…

A history of resistance at inaugurations

January 10, 2017

The 1973 counterinaugural demonstration, coming at a sensitive moment in the Vietnam War, was one of many protests that focused…

Solidarity with oilfields workers in Trinidad and Tobago

January 10, 2017

The following statement was posted Jan. 3 on wftucentral.org. The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing 92 million workers in…

Solidarity with locked-out Honeywell workers

January 10, 2017

South Bend, Ind. - On Jan. 5, autoworkers from Detroit and Chicago traveled to South Bend, Ind., to show solidarity…

Alabama resists racist Cabinet nominee

January 9, 2017

Two dozen members of the Alabama NAACP occupied the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions in Mobile, Ala., on Jan.…

‘The U.S. Mail is Not for Sale!’ Union victory over Staples and postal privatization

January 9, 2017

Five years ago the Postmaster General began a series of moves aimed at the step-by-step privatization of the Postal Service,…