U.S. and Canada

Protesters demand answers in police shooting

By Erica Mines, Matty Starrdust and Rufus Farmer Chester, Pa. Five people were arrested on Jan. 29 after 25 protesters…

February 2, 2016

What’s driving shocks to the economy

Jan. 25 — The working class in the U.S. has suffered devastating blows since the 2007 capitalist economic crisis. Now…

January 29, 2016

Criticism grows of racism surrounding Oscar snubs

The shutout of Black and other actors of color from the Oscars nominations announced on Jan. 14 has intensified a…

January 29, 2016

Treat hep C in Philly jails!

Supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal took their campaign demanding life-saving drugs for him and 10,000 other Pennsylvania prisoners suffering…

January 29, 2016

1966 murder prompted SNCC’s anti-war stance

Samuel “Sammy” Leamon Younge Jr., a 21-year-old activist from Tuskegee, Ala., was shot and killed at a Standard Oil gas…

January 29, 2016

NYC tenants’ rally confronts realtors

A large multinational protest chanted while mostly white men -- “suits” -- entered the New York Hilton Jan. 21 for…

January 29, 2016

Anthony Hill’s killer cop indicted

Atlanta, Jan. 21 — After a four-day, round-the-clock vigil was held in front of the DeKalb County Courthouse — despite frigid…

January 28, 2016

State terror and the ‘Drone Economy’

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Mary Ann Grady Flores, a Catholic Worker movement, anti-drone activist, was taken into custody in the DeWitt, N.Y.,…

January 28, 2016

Labor at the crossroads?

On Sept. 19, 1981, the AFL-CIO, under pressure from the rank and file as well as union locals throughout the…

January 28, 2016

MLK Day in Oakland, Calif.

On Jan. 18, some 3,000 people marched 4.6 miles from downtown Oakland, Calif., through West Oakland, ending at the Bay…

January 28, 2016