U.S. and Canada

Students fight massive debt

Students are fed promises of a bright future, and expectancy of a higher income upon program completion. However, college graduates…

June 3, 2013

Striking Walmart workers, supporters converge on company headquarters

Walmart workers across the United States resumed their strike at the end of May and began caravaning toward Bentonville, Ark.,…

June 3, 2013

Youth contingent adds politics to Buffalo, N.Y., Pride parade

Buffalo, N.Y. — Youth with the International Action Center carried banners and signs in the Buffalo Pride Parade on June 2.…

June 3, 2013

Support striking Palermo’s workers

Milwaukee — On June 1, striking Palermo’s workers and their allies marched 18 miles from the Palermo’s Pizza factory in…

June 3, 2013

Workers World at the Left Forum

Among the 1,000 speakers ready to present their ideas at the 2013 Left Forum at Pace University in downtown Manhattan…

June 3, 2013

Too many unemployed; jobs fairs close

Philadelphia has the highest poverty rate of any of the 10 largest U.S. cities: It’s 28.4 percent. Some 31 percent…

June 2, 2013

Foreclosure struggles escalate in U.S. cities

Anti-foreclosure activists and foreclosed homeowners escalated their struggle against the federal government during the week of May 20. In Washington,…

June 2, 2013

Chicago board closes 50 schools

Despite a heroic series of demonstrations led by the Chicago Teachers Union that involved support from school pupils and community…

June 2, 2013

Malcolm Latif Shabazz

Taken from a May 18 audio column from prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville,…

June 2, 2013

René González speaks at news conference for the Cuban 5

Washington, D.C. — René González, the first of the Cuban Five to be released from U.S. jails, was the first speaker…

June 1, 2013