U.S. and Canada

South Carolina prisoners jailed in ‘a modern day plantation’

Conducted after an April 15 rebellion at Lee Correctional Institution, a South ­Carolina maximum security prison, this excerpted interview is…

September 5, 2018

Education worker strikes begin again

Seattle — Heading into Labor Day, teachers at seven Washington Education Association locals are on strike. More walkouts could follow.…

September 5, 2018

Worldwide support pours in for Mumia Abu-Jamal as DA continues to block new appeal

More than 100 activists assembled outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia on Aug. 30 to demand the immediate release…

September 4, 2018

Trump, Charlottesville, Chemnitz and the struggle

Sept. 1 — To many progressives among the population, Donald Trump appears to be on the ropes. They are waiting…

September 4, 2018

Students resist the Klan on North Carolina campus

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Barricades surrounded the stump of Silent Sam and other monuments on the campus of the University…

September 3, 2018

The lessons of Chicago, 1968

This is the 50th anniversary of the massive street struggles in 1968 during the Democratic National Convention. We reprint here…

September 1, 2018

San Diego remembers Sagon Penn

Members of the San Diego Committee Against Police Brutality (CAPB) and ­Workers World Party remembered the legacy of Sagon Penn…

August 30, 2018

Homeless individuals create community in Minneapolis camp

Minneapolis — A camp of nearly 200 homeless people has sprung up along the shoulder of state highway 55, where…

August 30, 2018

Second month of encampment at ICE in Los Angeles

Occupy ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) held an encampment at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles throughout July and…

August 30, 2018

Renaming a street is a struggle against white supremacy

The attempt to change the name of a Brooklyn, N.Y., street sign to honor a hero of the Haitian Revolution,…

August 30, 2018