U.S. and Canada

Madison, Wis., rally demands justice, union jobs

Madison, Wis. -- Hundreds of youth, students, workers and their allies marched on March 11 to demand justice for Tony…

March 12, 2015

U.S. psychological association colludes in torture

A Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s use of torture at Guantánamo Bay and other locations states…

March 12, 2015

U.S. ranks as world’s worst in jailing women

Women are the fastest growing prison population in the U.S. due primarily to harsh sentencing for nonviolent crimes and drug…

March 12, 2015

Stop crude oil ‘bomb trains’

March 7 — In the past three days, two trains carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in North America, one…

March 12, 2015

On International Women’s Day, marches, rallies target police violence and low wages

Ever since the first International Women’s Day was observed in 1911, women all over the world have been commemorating IWD…

March 11, 2015

Selma 50 years later — Fight’s still on against racism and for liberation

Selma, Ala. — A jubilant, determined crowd of more than 100,000 people marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,…

March 10, 2015

Justice Dept. on Ferguson: Rampant racism but no indictment of killer cop

On March 4, the U.S. Department of Justice issued two seemingly contradictory reports. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder officially announced…

March 10, 2015

Young anti-racist artists face felony charges

The prosecution of two Metro Detroit youths, accused of painting a mural of protest against police brutality on a building…

March 10, 2015

Ferguson, Attica, Zimmerman and the capitalist state

Several judicial rulings in recent weeks demonstrate the determination of the capitalist government to shield the front-line forces of the…

March 9, 2015

UAW and VW: Workers need a fighting union

Just over a year ago the National Labor Relations Board conducted a union representation election at the Volkswagen plant in…

March 9, 2015