Human needs before profits

PDX maintenance workers “Sit Down! Fight Back!”

Portland, Oregon  “We won’t stand for it!”  Portland Airport (PDX) wheelchair attendants, baggage and service workers, cabin cleaners and janitors…

July 1, 2023

ON STRIKE: 1,800 Portland Prudential nurses

Portland, Oregon Nurses and clinicians marched off the job June 19 for a weeklong strike after an overwhelming 97% strike…

June 30, 2023

On the picket line

ILWU declares tentative contract win The 22,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) at 29 ports in…

June 30, 2023

Texas heat wave – dangerous disaster brewing

Ever since the heat dome established itself over Texas and northern Mexico on June 14, some 30 million to 40…

June 29, 2023

Trump would execute drug users – China rehabilitates them

In true demagogue fashion, in May 2023 Donald Trump demanded a ramping-up of the so-called “War on Drugs.” In Manchester,…

June 29, 2023

Bronx Antiwar Coalition chases military recruiters out of college career fair

The Bronx Antiwar Coalition successfully chased U.S. Army recruiters out of a student career fair June 11. The fair was…

June 19, 2023

“No 76ers arena in Chinatown!”

Over 3,000 protesters from Chinatown and supporting communities marched through downtown Philadelphia on June 10 with a loud and clear…

June 13, 2023

Confront the class behind climate change!

Buffalo, New York I returned on June 1 from a delegation to the People’s Republic of China, landing in JFK…

June 12, 2023

Erdogan: a ship that could continue to sail in a sea of contradictions

The author of this article, published June 2 on lapluma.net, is a former Venezuelan military officer and diplomat and current…

June 10, 2023

‘Compromise and consensus’ − but for whom?

President Joe Biden averted a default on the federal debt June 3 when he signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Biden…

June 6, 2023