U.S. and Canada

Houston protest supports Assata Shakur

Militant supporters of former political prisoner Assata Shakur, who was liberated from a U.S. federal prison and has lived in…

May 23, 2013

Paul Ryan, ALEC protested

Two of the greatest enemies of working people were confronted in Kansas and Oklahoma over the past two weeks. On…

May 23, 2013

‘Pathways’ program to gut City University of New York

New York — A cabal of bourgeois higher education policy wonks, media moguls and bankers have devised a scheme that…

May 23, 2013

Thousands walk out in Philadelphia: ’Save our schools!’

Philadelphia — For the third time in ten days, students walked out of classrooms here on May 17 to protest…

May 22, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage’

Part 1: Two schools of thought lock horns Supreme Court decisions are expected sometime in June on the constitutionality of…

May 22, 2013

Military sexual assault: Break the chains of command!

The struggle by women to stop being treated as men’s property and sexual objects has finally surfaced in the U.S.…

May 22, 2013

Grief and anger flow over murder of African-American transwoman in Cleveland

Despite many gains won through decades of struggle, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities are often…

May 22, 2013

Battleground North Carolina: 100+ arrests in 3 weeks resisting right-wing attacks

As this article goes to print, 57 more people were arrested during the “Moral Monday” action on May 20. More…

May 21, 2013

Thousands protest murder of NYC gay man

Thousands of people marched through New York's Greenwich Village the evening of May 20 to protest the murder of Mark…

May 21, 2013

Central Park 5, Jena 6 and the Scottsboro Brothers

The corporate-owned media reviews of the movie “The Central Park Five,” just released on DVD, focus mainly on the pathos…

May 21, 2013