Jeff Sorel

Midwest meeting exposes U.S. imperialism

An enthusiastic audience attended a May 19 forum in Chicago on combating the U.S. war drive from the Middle East…

May 26, 2017

Chicago ‘Fight for $15’

More than 2,000 workers — mostly young, Black or Brown and minimum-wage — rallied and marched in the rain in…

May 25, 2017

May Day & Marx, Chicago 1886

Chicago - It is often noted that May Day had its origins here in Chicago. Two days after 40,000 workers…

April 30, 2017

Chicago coalition unites for May Day

The coalition planning a giant march and rally for Chicago on May Day held a press conference April 5 to…

April 12, 2017

Lucy Parsons: A working-class founder of May Day

The class struggle was at fever pitch in Chicago in 1885. Unemployment was high, wages were low, and food prices…

March 1, 2017

Black Reconstruction and the Paris Commune: Two Momentous Revolutions

Black History Month brings back to life long-buried struggles of African-American people for liberation and justice. One of the most…

February 15, 2017

Can reforms stop police terror in Chicago?

It took the U.S. Department of Justice 13 months to determine what everyone in Chicago already knows -- that the…

January 16, 2017

Chicago transit workers take to the streets

Bus and rail operators, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 whose contract expired over a year ago, picketed…

January 2, 2017

Chicago protest greets Pence

Hundreds of demonstrators greeted Vice President-elect Mike Pence as he arrived to address well-heeled luncheon goers at the Chicago Club…

January 2, 2017

Chicago protesters: ‘Stop racist cops!’

Chanting “Boycott Black Friday, stop racist police!” hundreds of demonstrators blocked store entrances Nov. 25 on Chicago’s upscale Michigan Avenue…

December 2, 2016