U.S. and Canada

‘Night for Ramona’

At Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books in Philadelphia on Oct. 12, around 100 people attended a “Night for Ramona” to…

October 19, 2018

Celebrating Ramona Africa

Over 100 activists attended an Oct. 13 cultural fundraiser in New York City for Ramona Africa, a leader of the…

October 19, 2018

Immigrant family risks arrests to end deportation orders

After almost ten months of taking sanctuary in the basement of a Philadelphia church, Carmela Apolonio Hernández was ready to…

October 18, 2018

Detroit joins Marriott strike

Some 160 hotel workers, including bartenders, servers, cashiers, bellhops, front desk workers and housekeepers at downtown Detroit’s Book Cadillac hotel…

October 18, 2018

Oakland, Calif., hotel workers strike

Three Latinx workers from Stationary Engineers Local 39 (shown here) are striking at the Oakland Airport Hilton as part of…

October 18, 2018

On the Mass. ballot, voting YES for worker rights, trans rights

Three Massachusetts ballot questions this November need a YES vote. They present an unusual opportunity for people to mobilize through…

October 18, 2018

Hurricane hammers Florida & government protects property, not people

Pensacola, Fla. — Convoys of relief supplies provided by a left and community coalition effort headed from this city to…

October 17, 2018

Striking hotel workers strategize to win

Oct. 12 — Chanting “7 a.m. wake-up call!” and “Don’t check in, check out!” 500 Boston hotel workers on the…

October 17, 2018

Teamsters say: ‘Immigrant rights, workers rights!’

Striking Los Angeles port drivers, organized by the Teamsters union, shut down an entrance to the Metropolitan Detention Center here…

October 16, 2018

Mass pressure cancels fascist speaker

James O’Keefe, a fascist provocateur fueled by the Trump regime, was scheduled to speak at Columbia University on Oct. 10.…

October 16, 2018