U.S. and Canada

Striking L.A. teachers win big victory

The United Teachers of Los Angeles have won a big victory after six days on strike, Jan. 14-22. The 32,000…

January 28, 2019

Legal abortion: Still under attack, but supporters are fighting back

Roe v. Wade,  the landmark Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, turned 46 on Jan. 22. The yearly assault on women’s…

January 28, 2019

Angela Davis and ‘indivisible justice’ for Palestine

In recent months the struggle for the rights of the Palestinian people has seen an increase in Zionist attacks on…

January 27, 2019

Life imprisonment — for profit — is the crime

When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered an unprecedented statewide lockdown of prisons last summer, the state’s Department of Corrections claimed…

January 27, 2019

Who’s really to blame

It is no exaggeration to say that the capitalist class in the U.S. has, for well more than a century,…

January 27, 2019

On the picket line: Farmworker walkout stops pay cut

Farmworker walkout stops pay cut The 1,800 mostly Latinx farmworkers who pick Halo mandarin oranges and clementines for the Wonderful…

January 27, 2019

Buffalo activists brave storm to defend Venezuela gov’t

Jan. 25 -- At 7:30 a.m. today, intrepid organizers and activists in snowy, cold and windy Buffalo, N.Y., put up…

January 25, 2019

Reclaiming the radical legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

The legacy of the historic Black Civil Rights and Freedom Movement, and the contributions of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

January 24, 2019

Mumia supporters call out Philly DA for hiding evidence

Supporters of former Black Panther and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal held a press conference on Jan. 15 to denounce the…

January 24, 2019

A Slice of Hell: Working at Villa Italian Kitchen

The first taste of Hell in my working life was in the fall of 2012 when I was hired as…

January 24, 2019