U.S. and Canada

Meeting celebrates Million Worker March Movement

By Cheryl LaBash and Monica Moorehead Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. Founding members of the Million Worker March Movement held…

October 23, 2014

Cuba, Ebola & the Cuban 5

Revolutionary leader and former Cuban President Fidel Castro’s Oct. 17 reflection, “Duty calls,” explains Cuba’s urgent mobilization of medical personnel…

October 23, 2014

Why isn’t there more global aid to fight Ebola?

Oct. 20 — Several United States congressional representatives have called for a ban on travel into the U.S. from the…

October 22, 2014

Behind stock market swings: World capitalist slowdown looms

Oct. 19 — A global capitalist slowdown has sent world stock markets into decline, from Wall Street to London, Berlin…

October 22, 2014

Philadelphia: No to ICE

Erika Almiron, director of immigrant rights’ organization Juntos, spoke at an Oct. 16 press conference on the latest attacks by…

October 22, 2014

Supreme Court upholds racist Texas ID law

Once again the right-wing majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has made an outrageous attack on the hard-won democratic rights…

October 22, 2014

Demonstrators drown out Pa. Gov. Corbett who signed ‘Silence Mumia Law’

Philadelphia, Oct. 21 — Lots of media were on hand today in Philadelphia to record the moment when Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett put…

October 22, 2014

Stops cuts of teachers’ benefits in Philadelphia!

Judge Nina Wright Padilla of the Court of Common Pleas issued a temporary injunction Oct. 20 barring the School Reform…

October 21, 2014

State’s gag order vs Mumia Abu-Jamal silences all prisoners

Philadelphia -- At a time when more and more convictions are being reversed and prisoners released because of improper, racist…

October 21, 2014

Memorial for GI union leader

A memorial meeting for Andy Stapp, who died in September, will be held on Nov. 1 in New York. As…

October 21, 2014