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FARC announces unilateral cease

This initiative from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) was announced from Havana, Cuba, where peace talks have been…

August 2, 2015

Memphis cops kill Black youth, protests follow

By Brent Ford The following is a guest article submitted by a political activist in Memphis, Tenn. July 22 --…

July 31, 2015

No to NATO and AFRICOM in Spain

The following are edited excerpts from a news release from the Global Platform Against War, which organizes across the Spanish…

July 9, 2015

Greek Debt Committee declares all debt to the Troika ‘illegal, illegitimate, and odious’

Last spring the Syriza-led Greek Parliament, over the protests of opposition parties, authorized a committee to audit the debt. Below…

July 6, 2015

A visit with Michigan political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney

By David Sole and Marcina Cole Coldwater, Mich. In rural, south central Michigan, several hours from Detroit, sits Lakeland Correctional…

July 6, 2015

‘By any means necessary, Black Liberation will matter!’

By Erica Mines Philadelphia represents the epitome of state-sanctioned violence at the hands of police: the so-called race riots of…

June 29, 2015

Haitianos, expulsados de la República Dominicana

Por: Un residente extranjero en Santo Domingo. Otra tragedia humana en contra del pueblo haitiano se está fabricando, a medida…

June 29, 2015

Longshore worker local condemns Charleston massacre

The following resolution -- submitted by longshore rank-and-file worker veteran Clarence Thomas -- was adopted by the International Longshore and…

June 28, 2015

Report from Santo Domingo: How government scapegoats Haitian workers

By a foreign resident in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Another human tragedy against the Haitian people is in the making…

June 28, 2015

U.S. Cuba Network extends solidarity to Charleston massacre victims

The following statement was issued on June 20, 2015. The National Network on Cuba extends our solidarity to the survivors…

June 25, 2015