U.S. and Canada

On the picket line: historic strike in PA & bus drivers unionize in VA

Historic locomotive factory strike in Erie, Pa. In the largest U.S. manufacturing sector strike since 2016, nearly 2,000 locomotive manufacturing…

March 6, 2019

The key to climate change

Almost a century and a half ago, Karl Marx’s closest collaborator, Frederick Engels, wrote about the degradation of the environment…

March 5, 2019

Oppose Trump’s Title X changes

March 5 -- President Donald Trump added another notch on his campaign promises belt on Feb. 22. But Planned Parenthood…

March 5, 2019

‘25 shots from the racist cops’: The police execution of Willie McCoy

It was late evening Feb. 9 when local African-American rapper Willie McCoy, 20, drove into a Taco Bell drive-through in…

March 5, 2019

Charter school teachers strike and win

After nine days on the picket line, teachers and specialists at Ohio’s first unionized charter school have their first contract.…

March 5, 2019

Amazon Struggle Spreads to Virginia

When Amazon announced it would build two new headquarters, one in New York City and the other near Washington, D.C.,…

March 5, 2019

Students fight institutionalized racism in Georgia

"I was livid, furious," said Elijah John, a Black student at Kennesaw State University after seeing his image used in…

February 28, 2019

Mumia speaks to Yale Rebel Lawyers

On Feb. 1, students at Yale Law School courageously rescinded their invitation to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to be…

February 28, 2019

N.C. city workers speak out: ‘End austerity, end racism’

City workers in the Durham chapter of United Electrical Workers Local 150, N.C. Public Service Workers Union, came together Feb.…

February 28, 2019

The Green Book: Traveling while Black

The 400-year existence of Africans and their descendants in the U.S. can be summed up with a word like “exclusion.”…

February 26, 2019