Minnie Bruce Pratt

Columbia U. student workers set up picket line

Striking Student Workers of Columbia University in New York City set up a picket line Dec. 8 and declared a…

December 9, 2021

From Alabama to Australia: Solidarity for striking mine workers

Global solidarity for striking Alabama coal miners ramped up with a Nov. 18 worldwide Day of Action. This kicked off…

November 24, 2021

<span class="streamer">Racist acquitted</span><br>The people’s verdict: GUILTY!

After a trial thoroughly tainted by racism, on Nov. 19 a jury acquitted white supremacist Kyle Rittenhouse on all counts…

November 22, 2021

Claudette Colvin: Catalyst for 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott

Claudette Colvin’s defiant action on a segregated Alabama bus in 1955 – before that of Rosa Parks – resulted in…

November 12, 2021

Global Day of Climate Action

The climate crisis school-strike movement, Fridays For Future, called a Global Day of Climate Action for Sept 24. More than…

October 1, 2021

Hauling support for striking Alabama coal miners

Centreville, Ala. Sept. 15 — Here in Central Alabama, the courageous strike by 1,100 Brookwood coal miners — United Mine…

September 22, 2021

Alabama coal miners on strike, nurses and students walk out

Centreville, Ala. Sept. 12 — At the beginning of July, Alabama’s vaccination rate was the lowest among U.S. states, with…

September 13, 2021

Venezuela workers send solidarity to Nabisco strikers

Workers of the Sisotrokraft Union at the Mondelez factory in the city of Barquisimeto in Venezuela sent a solidarity message…

September 2, 2021

Beware the siren song: Women’s liberation and Afghanistan

This article originally appeared in Workers World, Dec. 6, 2001. As U.S. bombing and troop presence has intensified in Afghanistan,…

August 20, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: athletes resist, forge solidarity

Black-gloved fists raised in a Black power salute, heads bowed on the podium, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos…

August 11, 2021