U.S. and Canada

Oakland, Calif., activists occupy City Hall to protest gentrification

At the culmination of a week of actions highlighting that Oakland, Calif., is losing thousands of families per month to…

June 21, 2016

50th anniversary of the Black Power slogan and its significance

On June 16, 1966, the newly elected chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame…

June 21, 2016

Major Tillery case appealed

The family and other supporters of Major Tillery, who has been in Pennsylvania prisons unjustly for over 30 years, gathered…

June 21, 2016

Outraged New Yorkers say: ‘Boycott Israel for Justice’

On June 9, a crowd of several hundred in New York City vehemently voiced their protest of a recent anti-BDS…

June 19, 2016

Shut down the RNC! Resist state repression, racism!

Cleveland has been the butt of jokes for decades. Much of it is rooted in class arrogance, reflecting bourgeois contempt…

June 17, 2016

California election: Tens of thousands vote ‘socialist4senate’

A bright ray of hope radiated from the California primary election on June 7, despite victories by big-business presidential candidates…

June 17, 2016

Protests fight Michigan prison conditions

Prisoners at the Marquette Branch Prison in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula held a mass boycott of the facility’s cafeteria on May…

June 17, 2016

Black Lives Matter activists targeted by the state

Durham, N.C. — During the height of the Ferguson Rebellion in the summer of 2014, youth organizer Joshua Williams rose…

June 17, 2016

Mumia Abu-Jamal on: Muhammad Ali –‘the greatest!’

It was January 1942, when the baby Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born to a working-class Black family in Louisville,…

June 17, 2016

More victories for the defense in Rasmea Odeh’s case

Report from the Rasmea Defense Committee, led by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression,…

June 17, 2016