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Unlike centi-billionaire Gates, China shares vaccines, technology with world

In a stunning announcement Aug. 5, China’s President Xi Jinping informed the First International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation of…

August 10, 2021

Striking Alabama miners take fight to Wall Street

Five hundred striking Alabama coal miners — joined by hundreds of other union members and supporters — rallied July 28…

August 3, 2021

Honoring mental health issues, athletes like Simone Biles deserve support

The biggest news coming out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is not about the pandemic excluding large numbers of crowds…

July 30, 2021

Life expectancy drop exposes racism, class bias

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released “provisional life expectancy estimates” for the U.S. based on provisional mortality data…

July 27, 2021

Capitalism breeds climate catastrophe — Report from Belgium on the floods

By Michel Collon Hundreds die from heat exhaustion in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. Unprecedented heat waves hit northern…

July 20, 2021

Turmoil no excuse for invasion
U.S. hands off Haiti!

In Haiti, around 1:00 a.m., July 7, brand new SUVs without license plates pulled up to the private residence of…

July 13, 2021

Step toward unionization, student-athletes win historic ruling

The National Collegiate Athletic Association waived its archaic rules June 30 to allow student-athletes to earn money off their popularity…

July 6, 2021

Mobilizing worker power: AMAZON UNION NOW!

The fight to unionize the second-biggest U.S. employer took a big step forward at the Teamsters’ (IBT) union convention last…

June 29, 2021

SCOTUS ruling: Bigotry behind the fig leaf of religion

The June 17 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Fulton v. Philadelphia, represents a bigoted attack…

June 25, 2021

Reparations and abolition

Finally, the U.S. has a federal holiday recognizing the emancipation of Black people from slavery. Congress passed the Juneteenth National…

June 22, 2021