U.S. and Canada

Solidarity with frontline workers

When Philadelphia city officials banned all large parades due to COVID-19, AFL-CIO officials cancelled their annual Labor Day parade, opting…

September 10, 2020

Justice for Marcus Smith!

Greensboro Two years after Greensboro, N.C., police officers killed Marcus Deon Smith, the Smith family, the Working-class Homeless Organizing Alliance,…

September 10, 2020

Outrage over death of Black trans woman in Cleveland jail 

Cleveland Anger over the tragic death of 28-year-old Lea Rayshon Daye in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County Jail came out forcefully in…

September 10, 2020

PDF of September 10 issue

Download the 12-page PDF. Anti-racists defy police, fascist terror Fight the right with united worker action! editorial ALSO: Kevin Zeese,…

September 10, 2020

Remembering Frank ‘Big Black’ Smith

by Ida Robinson Ida Robinson is a co-founder with Families with a Future. She is an ex-prisoner, ex-fugitive and a…

September 10, 2020

As COVID spreads: Epidemic of evictions goes viral

Houston — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a federal eviction moratorium on Sept. 1 to prevent the…

September 9, 2020

100 days of Portland protests as anti-racists defy police, fascist terror

This city marked 100 consecutive days of anti-racist, anti-police protests on Sept. 5. The protests have shifted away from downtown…

September 8, 2020

Black Lives Matter holds court in sports

Two months before George Floyd was publicly lynched May 25 by a Minneapolis police officer pressing a knee on his…

September 8, 2020

Fight the right with united worker action!

On Aug. 12, 2017, an angry white nationalist participating in a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., deliberately sped…

September 8, 2020

Transitioning behind bars: ‘Nothing less than torture!’

By Vanessa Lee Naisha Vanessa Lee Naisha is a Black transgender woman being held in an all-male prison in Delaware.…

September 8, 2020