U.S. and Canada

On opening day of NFL season, solidarity acts for Colin Kaepernick

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and Super Bowl star Colin Kaepernick is still unemployed as of Sept. 10 at the…

September 11, 2017

DACA: The latest from the Un-Obama

If there is one unifying principle emerging from the disaster known as the Trump Regime, it is the president's singular…

September 11, 2017

North Carolina arrestees: ‘Toppling white supremacy is not a crime!’

A letter from #DefendDurham arrestees to the Movement From Charlottesville to Durham to the White House — Tear down white…

September 11, 2017

Rochester, N.Y., anti-war groups say no to U.S. threats and sanctions against DPRK

Rochester, N.Y. — Local anti-war organizations held a press conference here on Aug. 22 to denounce the the U.S. war…

September 11, 2017

March defends immigrant ‘Dreamers’

Just across the street from Trump International Hotel at Columbus Circle in New York City a powerful cry arose from…

September 10, 2017

Mumia Abu-Jamal: The battles of history

The events surrounding Charlottesville, Va., have a resonance far beyond the borders of Old Dominion. Even though they began as…

September 10, 2017

National protests demand $15 and a union

“Fight for $15” and “Unionize” resonated in 300 cities around the U.S., chanted by workers marching on Sept. 4, Labor…

September 8, 2017

Will labor purchase of Sun-Times make it working-class?

Chicago, Aug. 31 — In July, an investment group led by the Chicago Federation of Labor and businessperson Edwin Eisendrath…

September 8, 2017

On the picket line

Support Texas Workers Relief Fund To help the millions of Hurricane Harvey survivors on the Texas Gulf Coast, consider donating…

September 8, 2017

Hurricanes, floods and capitalism

In “Capital,” Karl Marx described capitalism as a system that is designed entirely around the exploitation of labor — but…

September 8, 2017