U.S. and Canada

How the Glenville Rebellion briefly won community control in 1968

The police practice of murder, brutality and harassment of Black communities is not a new phenomenon. Nor is resistance to…

January 27, 2015

Paul Robeson gave voice to the trees and forests

If Paul Robeson were alive today, he'd be toasting and defending people's hero Ramsey Orta (who filmed the police killing…

January 27, 2015

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

On Jan. 21, the apartheid Zionist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu was authorized by the United Nations General Assembly to host…

January 26, 2015

Vast wealth inequality will drive class struggle

Jan. 26 — President Barack Obama and the New York Times have apparently just discovered something every worker in the…

January 26, 2015

Detroit MLK Day rally highlights Selma, Ala.

This year’s “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rally and March” commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Selma campaign that created…

January 24, 2015

People with disabilities half of people killed by cops; disability rights groups protest

Disabled-rights groups are among the most energetic advocates of solidarity with African-American victims of police murder. Some 34 disability activist…

January 24, 2015

Gary Webb told the truth

Film review: ‘Kill the Messenger’ Gary Webb told the truth about CIA-backed contra terrorists selling drugs to finance their dirty…

January 24, 2015

Stop Veolia in Boston and Detroit!

The following message from the four fired leaders of United Steelworkers Local 8751 in Boston was delivered to the Detroit…

January 24, 2015

NYPD charged with illegally targeting Muslims

Over 100 people rallied and heard testimony in Philadelphia Federal Court on Jan. 13 in support of Muslim civil rights…

January 24, 2015

On the picket line

VW workers not fooled by bosses’ pseudo-union plan After narrowly losing a union election in the Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen assembly…

January 24, 2015