U.S. and Canada

Can reforms stop police terror in Chicago?

It took the U.S. Department of Justice 13 months to determine what everyone in Chicago already knows -- that the…

January 16, 2017

Dr. King’s Legacy: Linking struggle at home and abroad relevant today

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, he denounced…

January 14, 2017

Reproductive justice takes on the Trump-Pence agenda

Organizing for the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21 has been deep and massive. As of this writing, over…

January 14, 2017

Big Pharma prices soar, Part 2

Lifesaving medications, including Harvoni which can cure hepatitis C, are often developed through taxpayer-funded research. But they are priced out…

January 12, 2017

Labor launches new fightback

Workers and community members across the country began the new year in emergency actions to fight a vicious anti-union, anti-people…

January 11, 2017

Long live the whistleblowers!

Look behind the drumbeat of attacks on Russia for allegedly causing Trump to be elected and what you find is…

January 10, 2017

Under capitalism: ‘They don’t really care about us’

Six-year-old Toussaint Birwe was killed by a 14-car State Department convoy that barreled through his hometown of Mokong in the…

January 10, 2017

A history of resistance at inaugurations

The 1973 counterinaugural demonstration, coming at a sensitive moment in the Vietnam War, was one of many protests that focused…

January 10, 2017

Solidarity with locked-out Honeywell workers

South Bend, Ind. - On Jan. 5, autoworkers from Detroit and Chicago traveled to South Bend, Ind., to show solidarity…

January 10, 2017

Alabama resists racist Cabinet nominee

Two dozen members of the Alabama NAACP occupied the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions in Mobile, Ala., on Jan.…

January 9, 2017