U.S. and Canada

Detroit struggle ramps up versus emergency manager

The struggle of Detroit residents to save our city from ruin by the banks and financial institutions has gone into…

May 31, 2013

On the picket line

Low-wage workers strike in D.C. Hundreds of low-wage workers in Washington, D.C., struck on May 21, calling for a living…

May 31, 2013

Silicon Valley 10: Workers 0

The writer is a May 1 Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights ­co-coordinator. The momentum for achieving so-called immigration reform…

May 30, 2013

Arpaio guilty of racial profiling

Tucson, Ariz. — In a ruling that came as no surprise to Arizona’s oppressed and terrorized Latino/a community, a federal judge…

May 30, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 2

The challenge of uncovering human prehistory Part 1 of this series focused on the counterrevolution in anthropology that arose in…

May 30, 2013

D.C. actions to demand: Free the Cuban Five!

The writer is a logistics volunteer with the Inter­national Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5. May 29 —…

May 29, 2013

Gerardo Hernández: We will always be the Cuban Five

A May 3 message about his Cuban 5 comrade René González, who is being allowed to stay in Cuba. He…

May 29, 2013

Protest invades ‘Banana Republic’

Demonstrators demanding safety measures protecting Bangladesh garment workers filled the Banana Republic, then moved to the Gap and Old Navy…

May 29, 2013

Sweden’s immigrant communities rebel

Many were shocked at the week of rebellion that began May 19 in the suburb of Husby just outside Stockholm,…

May 29, 2013

U.S. gov’t taps AP phones to repress truth

The U.S. Attorney General’s office announced on May 10 that the government had secretly “tapped” the phone records of a…

May 26, 2013