U.S. and Canada

Chuck Africa – Rest in power!

After a four-year struggle with cancer, Charles “Chuck” Sims Africa of the MOVE 9 died on Sept. 20. Sims, 61,…

September 28, 2021

Hundreds of athletes file brief to defend abortion

Over 500 U.S. women and gender-oppressed athletes, many well-known, signed a historic 39-page amicus brief Sept. 20 in defense of…

September 28, 2021

A broken taillight – an excuse for police murder?

Atlanta On Aug. 7, 2020, 60-year-old Julian Lewis, a semiretired Black carpenter, was driving home in Sylvania, Ga., after going…

September 28, 2021

‘Tear Down the Walls! Free Them All!’

The following are excerpts given at a Sept. 19 “Shut Down Fayette” rally in front of Eastern State Penitentiary in…

September 24, 2021

Changing racist name of prisons is ‘like putting lipstick on a pig’

Outrage over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in May 2020 was immediate. This righteous anger took many forms,…

September 24, 2021

Philly’s first Curb Fest for political prisoners

By Betsey Piette Philadelphia’s first Curb Fest for Political Prisoners, held in the city’s Germantown neighborhood Sept. 18, featured local…

September 24, 2021

‘Rising Together’ rally for solidarity

A giant 18-foot-tall paper-mache puppet of Mumia Abu Jamal was the centerpiece of  the“Rising Together” rally held Sept. 19 at…

September 23, 2021

PDF of Sept. 23 issue

Download the PDF. Free abortion on demand for ALL genders ALSO: Women athletes demand justice Is 'Tax the Rich' thee…

September 23, 2021

Hauling support for striking Alabama coal miners

Centreville, Ala. Sept. 15 — Here in Central Alabama, the courageous strike by 1,100 Brookwood coal miners — United Mine…

September 22, 2021

Women gymnasts expose FBI complicity in abuse scandal

The nightmare that began with U.S. women gymnasts, both prominent and unknown, being sexually molested as young girls by USA…

September 21, 2021