U.S. and Canada

BLACK WOMEN’S LIVES MATTER

JUSTICE FOR SANDRA BLAND! As we go to press, Sandra Bland’s funeral on July 25 was attended by hundreds of…

July 28, 2015

Kindra Chapman: #Fight4HerName

In Alabama and nationwide, protests continue against the death in police custody of Kindra Darnell Chapman, a Black teenager who…

July 28, 2015

$15 per hour, what’s next?

From coast to coast, momentum continues to build behind the struggle of low-wage workers fighting for $15 per hour and…

July 28, 2015

Bernie Sanders flunks first big test

At the Netroots Nation gathering of progressive political activists in Phoenix this mid-July, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders encountered the first…

July 28, 2015

Auto contract talks begin – time to dump two-tier!

On July 12, contract talks between General Motors and the United Auto Workers began with the traditional, much-photographed handshake between…

July 24, 2015

Protesters fight Scott Walker’s anti-worker platform

Hundreds of activists participated in the “Oppose Scott Walker’s Wall Street Agenda” protest July 13 at the Waukesha County Expo…

July 24, 2015

On the picket line

‘No cutbacks,’ say Verizon workers in Northeast Bargaining began June 22 for 38,000 workers in the Verizon East district of…

July 24, 2015

Cuba’s flag flies in Washington

Washington, D.C -- In a ceremony attended by some 500 invited guests on July 20, the Cuban flag was raised…

July 23, 2015

Sexual equality is in our genes

Marxist thinkers from Frederick Engels to Dorothy Ballan have long maintained that, for most of human existence, the social structure…

July 23, 2015

Appeal filed for Rev. Pinkney

On July 6, a motion for bond pending appeal was filed in the case of Michigan political prisoner the Rev.…

July 23, 2015