Workers unite!

Voices of oppressed ring out in New York’s Union Square

Union Square, New York City — Since a migrant upsurge in 2006 revived May Day in the United States, Union…

May 7, 2014

Detroit May Day: ‘Make the banks pay!’

May Day in Detroit focused around the ongoing struggle against emergency management, the forced city bankruptcy and the role of…

May 7, 2014

April 29 protesters tell restaurant bosses: ‘What’s outrageous – poverty wages!’

Washington, D.C. --It was rainy, windy and cold, but this didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of dozens of protesters gathered outside…

May 2, 2014

Protests in 50-plus cities say: ‘U.S. mail is not for sale’

More than 50 protests were held in 27 states on the April 24 “National Day of Action Protest to ‘Stop…

May 1, 2014

All out for May Day!

Teresa Gutierrez, right, co-coordinator of the May 1 Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, with other coalition activists at an…

April 29, 2014

100 years later, miners remember Ludlow Massacre

Ludlow, Colo. -- Near this town in the gloomy, gray, coalfields of southern Colorado stands a memorial built by the…

April 28, 2014

Restaurant workers: ‘Stop wage theft’

In a powerful demonstration of support, dozens of people marched into Liberato restaurant in the Bronx demanding better wages and…

April 28, 2014

On the picket line

Walmart: Make Gerawan pay the farmworkers! The United Farm Workers latest campaign, on behalf of more than 5,000 mostly migrant…

April 25, 2014

All labor should support LEGALIZATION!

As progressives and workers march once again on May Day, it is important to reflect on the workers’ movement in…

April 23, 2014

The meaning of low-wage worker struggle

And the need for an independent revolutionary pole in new working-class movement The nationwide strikes of workers at places like…

April 19, 2014