Phebe Eckfeldt

Electrifying solidarity on the Boston hotel strike picket line

Oct. 4 -- Today, on the one-month anniversary of the Battery Wharf Hotel strike, hundreds of supporters joined the picket…

October 7, 2019

Battery Wharf Hotel workers strike

Sept. 15 -- All 75 union workers walked off the job Sept. 5 at the luxury, 150-room Battery Wharf Hotel…

September 20, 2019

Wayfair workers walk out saying: ‘No profit off concentration camps for migrant children!’

Over 500 Wayfair workers -- clerical workers, engineers, product managers, visual artists and information technology workers -- walked off their…

July 2, 2019

Harvard U. workers unite to defend immigrants

Cambridge, Mass. — Sixty workers marched on Harvard University President Drew Faust’s office Jan. 31, demanding she take action on…

February 5, 2018

Supporters demand ‘Justice for Sam Smith!’

Dec. 15 — Transgender activists, family members and supporters came out to show support for Sam Smith in his bid…

January 5, 2018

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

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

December 7, 2017

With affordable health care the issue, students, workers support Harvard strike

Workers around the world are watching as Harvard University Dining Service workers take on the multibillion-dollar institution, demanding “No cuts…

October 17, 2016

Harvard U. strike! Trying to survive capitalism

Cambridge, Mass. It was 5 a.m. on Oct. 5 and Harvard University Dining Services workers were already marching on a…

October 12, 2016

Cuba: Socialist health care beating heart disease

As in much of the world, heart disease is a leading cause of death in Cuba, but the country has…

October 25, 2015