U.S. and Canada

SIGN THE PETITION SHUT DOWN FORT HOOD NOW! JUSTICE FOR  PFC. VANESSA GUILLÉN!

Petition issued by F.I.R.E. (Fight for Im/Migrants & Refugees Everywhere) and the IAC (International Action Center). fightformigrants.org/. iacenter.org/. SIGN THE…

July 17, 2020

News about life behind the walls

Cruel and unusual: Lack of air conditioning exacerbates medical conditions Across the hottest places in the U.S., caged humans often…

July 16, 2020

Deep organizing key to historic Flint Sit-Down Strike

These slightly edited remarks were given at a July 9 Workers World Party webinar on “Introduction to Revolutionary Deep Organizing.”   …

July 16, 2020

Cambridge, Mass.: For Us, By Us Collective calls for funding communities, not cops

By Katya Zinn Cambridge, Mass. On June 22, the author acted as an accomplice to a Black-youth-organized civil disobedience demonstration…

July 16, 2020

Boston #SayHerName
Black women lead BLM march

Over a thousand people took to the streets July Fourth to center Black women’s role in the ongoing Black Lives…

July 14, 2020

‘Housing is dignity!’

Residents of the James Talib-Dean tent encampment, set up on June 11 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, held…

July 14, 2020

What is needed to reopen schools in the U.S.?

July 13 — The Trump administration has ignored facts, science and the advice of experts when issuing an order for…

July 14, 2020

Texas death penalty under fire after cruel treatment of mourners

While executions are nothing unusual in Texas, the state outdid itself last week. It not only executed Billy Wardlow, but…

July 14, 2020

Supreme Court rules for religious right, against health care

After signing three progressive decisions in June, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts revealed his true conservative stripes July 8.…

July 13, 2020

Thousands of workers strike Bath Iron Works

Over 4,300 production workers — represented by Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) Local S6 — walked off the job at…

July 13, 2020