U.S. and Canada

What’s behind the election of socialists in Chicago

April 8 -- Chicago is the third most populous U.S. city today, after New York and Los Angeles, and is…

April 8, 2019

You are the working class

The ruling class has offered up a big lie, and we have swallowed it whole. We have been told that…

April 8, 2019

On the picket line: Education workers in three states & gig drivers in LA

Adjunct professors win union in Florida Service Employees’ Faculty Forward campaign won a landmark unionization drive March 27 at Miami-Dade…

April 6, 2019

Town meetings expose community health crisis after Houston petrochemical fire

Environmental racism A town hall meeting was held March 24 at Talento Bilingue de Houston to address East End community…

April 6, 2019

Philadelphia students take over school board meeting

The Philadelphia Board of Education voted 7-2 on March 28 to mandate metal detectors in all city high schools. Angered…

April 6, 2019

Georgia, #1 in maternal deaths, passes country’s most restrictive abortion law

The Georgia legislature succeeded in passing the most restrictive law governing access to abortion in the country on March 29,…

April 4, 2019

Jussie Smollett and capitalist victim blaming

Charges brought against Black gay actor Jussie Smollett by the city of Chicago were dropped on March 26. But since…

April 4, 2019

Hundreds join anti-NATO march through U.S. capital in revival of broad antiwar movement

Several hundred activists and organizers took to the streets of the U.S. capital on Saturday, March 30, traveling from all…

April 3, 2019

Black students at Princeton Theological Seminary demand reparation for school’s slavery connections

Black students at Princeton Theological Seminary say it’s time for the institution to repent for its reliance on the 19th…

April 3, 2019

Veterans For Peace activist reports back

The March 30 reportback organized by Portland’s Hands Off Venezuela PDX group featured Dan Shea, a member of Portland’s Veterans…

April 3, 2019