U.S. and Canada

Youth tell ICE: ‘Free Maguiber!’

Oakland, Calif. — The California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance held a press conference on the street in front of Alameda…

July 6, 2017

Protests continue over attempts to repeal ACA

Grass-roots action protesting plans to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act continued to spread as June ended, despite the…

July 6, 2017

In Chicago, ‘Healthcare = Life’

Chicago, June 27 — “Don’t Kill Us: Healthcare = Life!” Chicagoans, including dozens of differently abled people, participated in a…

July 6, 2017

Battle-tested people with disabilities fight for rights

July is widely celebrated as Disability Pride Month in the U.S. This year, the month marks the 27th anniversary of…

July 5, 2017

Stop DA office coverup, free Mumia now!

For the second time, Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker ordered the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 22 to release…

July 5, 2017

Newark reparations march: ‘They stole us, they sold us, they owe us!’

Over a hundred people marched through downtown Newark, N.J., on June 24 demanding reparations for the African Holocaust. Called by…

July 1, 2017

Federal workers’ union busted by Congress

As a prototype for destroying collective bargaining protections for federal workers, the Trump administration, with the connivance of Congress, has…

July 1, 2017

Little Steel Strike: Capitalists expose their brutality

The Little Steel Strike was one of the bloodiest strikes in 1937, and a setback for labor in a year…

June 30, 2017

On the picket line

Immigrant farmworkers win union victory in Washington In a major victory for U.S. farmworkers, about 200 migrants who pick berries…

June 30, 2017

400 pack Berkeley City Council meeting, say: ‘End collaboration with feds’

Berkeley, Calif. — Some 400 people packed a special City Council meeting here on June 20 to demand that Berkeley…

June 30, 2017