U.S. and Canada

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 4

Marx & Engels on Morgan As noted previously, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels found Morgan’s analysis of pre-class and early…

June 13, 2013

Big brother?

From a June 6 audio column at prisonradio.org.  The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa.…

June 13, 2013

Philadelphia: Drive for profits behind building collapse

Philadelphia — Six people are dead and 14 injured after a building undergoing demolition fell onto a Salvation Army thrift store…

June 12, 2013

Tribute to Vince Copeland: Highlights of an outstanding thinker and fighter

New York — Doing justice to the life of an outstanding figure in the arduous struggle to liberate humanity from capitalist…

June 12, 2013

People’s Assembly platform brings mayoral victory for Chokwe Lumumba

In a historic election, long-time Black political activist and civil rights attorney Chokwe Lumumba was elected mayor of Jackson, Miss.,…

June 11, 2013

Hoodie Day for Trayvon Martin in Buffalo, N.Y.

The Buffalo, N.Y., National Hoodie Day march, led by African-American youth, proceeded down a major street in a predominantly African-American…

June 11, 2013

Michigan protesters support Walmart workers

Close to 100 supporters of Walmart workers demonstrated June 7 outside the Walmart Super Center in Dearborn, Mich. Among them…

June 11, 2013

Walmart confronted at annual stockholders’ meeting

The largest private company in the world, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., was forced to confront its worst nightmare on June 7:…

June 10, 2013

Los Angeles demands ‘Hands off Syria’

Hundreds of anti-war and social justice activists, representing many groups, including an organization of Syrian activists, gathered in unity to oppose the…

June 10, 2013

United statement to oppose U.S./NATO and Israeli war on Syria

The groups supporting a protest in Los Angeles on June 9 released this statement: No more wars — U.S. out of…

June 10, 2013