U.S. and Canada

Detroiters: ‘No cuts to our pensions!’

Ballots will be sent the week of May 12 to tens of thousands of city of Detroit retirees to vote…

May 19, 2014

New York state: ‘No more prisons!’

Albany, N.Y. -- Over 600 people demonstrated at a statewide mobilization against mass incarceration in Albany, N.Y., on May 5.…

May 19, 2014

Detroit auto parts plant strike threat wins union

Detroit -- Kace Logistics is one of many companies that function near or inside a major auto assembly plant. Workers…

May 18, 2014

SuperShuttle drivers versus Veolia

SuperShuttle drivers from Dulles and Reagan airports in the Washington, D.C., area and their supporters rallied on May 12 and…

May 18, 2014

Hundreds in Philly rally to rehire Monteiro

Hundreds of students and community activists gathered at Temple University in Philadelphia on May 8 for a rousing rally calling…

May 18, 2014

Petraeus ‘wanted for genocide’

Students from the City University of New York and others stood in protest May 6 across from CUNY’s McCauley Honors…

May 16, 2014

Superprofits and kidney disease

Capitalism has been good to David Tepper, who raked in $3.5 billion last year. That’s what 232,000 minimum-wage workers earn,…

May 16, 2014

GM ignition scandal continues

Months after the link between a faulty ignition switch and car crash fatalities made front-page news, General Motors’ reckless disregard…

May 15, 2014

A sordid history: U.S. collaboration with neo-Nazis

It may surprise some that the U.S. government — especially under a reputedly liberal Democratic Party administration — would be…

May 15, 2014

NYC meeting kicks off actions on Ukraine

Meeting at Riverside Church on May 10, anti-war activists from the New York metropolitan area gave a kick-start to three…

May 14, 2014