Human needs before profits

On the picket line

Twin Cities teachers  This month could see more than 8,000 teachers in Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota, leaving the…

March 3, 2022

Oakland community fights school closures and cutbacks

Oakland, California Teachers, parents, students, education workers and community activists are launching a multifaceted campaign to stop the school closures…

February 28, 2022

North Carolina workers organize emergency rallies for safety  

This lightly edited article was published as a Feb. 16 report at southernworker.org, Statements are testimony given to the writer…

February 24, 2022

Oakland workers, teachers: ‘Stop the Port land grab and racist school closings!’

Oakland, California  A crowd of Oakland longshore workers and teachers rallied Feb. 17 at City Hall to raise two demands:…

February 21, 2022

Education workers fight for justice

Education workers are adding to a recent surge of worker organizing across the country and around the world, a surge…

February 18, 2022

On the Picketline

Brew union strong Baristas at five Pittsburgh-based Coffee Tree Roasters shops filed for union representation with United Food and Commercial…

February 18, 2022

Haitian workers demand: ‘Triple the minimum wage!’

Haiti faces a crisis of government legitimacy. The only elected officials in the country at any level whose terms have…

February 18, 2022

What $203 billion can buy  

Oh, the trials and tribulations of centibillionaire Jeff Bezos — what to do with $203 billion? Go into space? Done…

February 17, 2022

¡La solución a la desigualdad global es el socialismo! 

En todo el mundo, miles de millones de personas están sufriendo pérdidas increíbles como consecuencia de la incapacidad y la…

February 11, 2022

What’s important for workers in BLS January jobs report

The corporate media shouted loud hosannas to greet the Bureau of Labor Statistics Feb. 4 announcement that the U.S. economy…

February 9, 2022