Human needs before profits

On the picket line

United Farm Workers march to secure voting rights The United Farm Workers (UFW) union is marching to Sacramento, the state…

August 12, 2022

Twenty years ago, Nigerian women took over ChevronTexaco and won concession

The following article first appeared on workers.org in two parts, dated Aug. 1 and 8, 2002. In honor of Black…

August 11, 2022

Methadone clinics: ending stigma and social control

In the 1930s, the German company I.G. Farben was looking for a solution to the opium shortage and the company’s…

August 11, 2022

Eviction resistance

Philadelphia A long anticipated confrontation between residents fighting for housing justice and the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Department, protecting gentrifiers’ interests, broke…

August 9, 2022

Boston Starbucks Workers United brings strike line to NLRB

Boston, Aug. 7 Disgusted by the National Labor Relations Board and its entire federal enforcement apparatus seeming to stand by,…

August 8, 2022

Una victoria indiscutible y en unidad del pueblo panameño

By Polo Ciudadano – Panamá La gran explosión social del pueblo panameño, que salió masivamente a las calles a repudiar…

August 8, 2022

Panamá: Los trabajadores se declaran en huelga y consiguen una reducción de precios

La autora estaba en Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá, de viaje de estudios con su hija, cuando comenzó la huelga nacional…

August 8, 2022

Philadelphia unions: ‘Housing is a human right!’

For months, 70 Black and Brown families have organized resistance to their threatened eviction by the Altman Company in Philadelphia.…

August 6, 2022

California Labor Federation: Convention inspired by wave of organizing

San Francisco The 2.1 million-member California Labor Federation kicked off its biennial convention here in mid-July with a special meeting…

August 5, 2022

Big Pharma’s crime: profits from addiction

New Hampshire’s attorney general, John Formella, has launched a lawsuit against Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, RiteAid and other pharmacies for failing…

August 5, 2022