U.S. and Canada

Why capitalists love Trump’s NLRB

A majority of the five-member National Labor Relations Board are currently Trump appointees. With one seat vacant, they hold three…

November 10, 2018

On the picket line

Black women call center workers lead fight for a union in Miss. In Hattiesburg, Miss., hundreds of call center workers…

November 10, 2018

Trans rights! Trans liberation!

New York members of the Peoples Power Assemblies participated on Nov. 2 in the Trans Rights Rally organized by young…

November 10, 2018

Protest forces Pennsylvania prisons to back off

Corrections Secretary John Wetzel admitted that a month of protests, public hearings and social media campaigns have forced the Pennsylvania…

November 8, 2018

Prison crackdown, prisoner boycott

This Workers World interview was conducted with Pennsylvania prison activist Bryant Arroyo in SCI Frackville on Sept. 23. The Pennsylvania…

November 8, 2018

Anti-Semitism, racism and the anniversary of Kristallnacht

At a moment when the U.S. head of government spouts blatantly racist vitriol criminalizing people for their nationality, claims “they”…

November 8, 2018

Google sued for pay discrimination

A hearing for a proposed class action lawsuit was conducted in San Francisco Oct. 26 on behalf of 8,300 women…

November 8, 2018

Victory in Detroit hotel strike

After almost a month of 24-hour pickets at the swank Westin Book Cadillac hotel in downtown Detroit, UNITE HERE Local…

November 6, 2018

After the Pittsburgh massacre: Solidarity against racism, anti-Semitism

Solidarity against racism, anti-immigrant xenophobia and anti-Semitism has swept the United States since the Oct. 27 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Individuals…

November 5, 2018

Commentary: Labor against racist, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ attacks

By a Jewish New York City public sector worker and union member When I arrived at my Local’s union meeting…

November 5, 2018