U.S. and Canada

A new global revolutionary workers’ movement in the making

There is a new workers’ movement developing. It’s bold and it has revolutionary potential from the point of view of…

December 2, 2013

Charges filed in killing of Renisha McBride

A Dearborn Heights, Mich., homeowner, Theodore P. Wafer, has been charged with second-degree murder in the Nov. 2 shooting death…

December 2, 2013

Racist cops protested

Vile racism is on the rise in metropolitan Detroit. First, there was the seemingly cold- blooded shooting death of young…

December 2, 2013

More than 800 protest racist Washington football team name

By Chris Getowicz Minneapolis Over 800 people gathered here, Nov. 7, to demand the Washington Redskins change their racist name.…

December 2, 2013

Why build workers’ assemblies

Talk given at the WWP conference by Sharon Black. The new low-wage workers movement is really a movement in embryo…

December 2, 2013

The time is now to free Oscar López!

The campaign to free Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera is reaching new heights with the Nov. 23 demonstrations…

December 2, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 24

Sexual repression as an instrument of class domination The ruling classes of the early state societies had written legal codes…

December 1, 2013

Could a Cuban vaccine have prevented a Princeton epidemic?

Eight Princeton University students have contracted type B meningitis since March. Meningitis, which inflames the lining around the brain and…

November 30, 2013

Protest at Georgia detention center

Lumpkin, Ga. -- For the seventh year, hundreds of protesters gathered Nov. 22 in Lumpkin, Ga., to march to the…

November 30, 2013

Thousands demand: ‘Close torture-training School of the Americas’

Fort Benning, Ga. --  Following the 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter in El…

November 30, 2013