U.S. and Canada

Redbaiting derails people’s needs in Georgia Senate runoff

Atlanta, Georgia So what's it like living in the political circus of the Jan. 5, 2021, run-off in Georgia for…

December 22, 2020

COVID and prisons: No walls, no borders in the workers’ struggle

Texas “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers [in an unnamed Texas prison], in the middle…

December 22, 2020

Is the U.S. facing a revolutionary situation?

The inescapable duty of a socialist revolutionary is to perceive the changes taking place in society which sharpen the class…

December 22, 2020

Cleveland baseball team finally retires racist name, mascot

Cleveland It’s official. And it’s about time. After months of discussions and rumors, Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team announced Dec.…

December 21, 2020

The vaccine: class division and chaos

To spotlight the need for COVID-19 vaccinations of hospital workers, Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., staged a photo…

December 21, 2020

Too little, too late – better than nothing?

The reported reaction of many to the CARES Act 2 — which is about to be passed as we write…

December 21, 2020

El voto blanco por Trump: ¿Es posible la solidaridad multinacional de la clase trabajadora?

¿Por qué 74 millones de personas votaron por Trump, dada su desastrosa respuesta a la pandemia y el colapso económico?…

December 21, 2020

Release Mumia now!

Philadelphia The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police have done everything possible to silence Mumia Abu-Jamal and bury his fight for…

December 18, 2020

Ramsey Prison Unit: The terror of Texas

By Nanon M. Williams Nanon Williams was arrested in 1992 at age 17 for capital murder and spent years on…

December 18, 2020

Cops and landlords go hand-in-hand in New York City

With the looming Jan. 31 expiration of the federal ban on evictions — and landlords already evicting tenants — protests,…

December 18, 2020