U.S. and Canada

Pacific Northwest longshore workers reject cutbacks

International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals in the Pacific Northwest continue to work at terminals owned by the Grain Handlers…

January 4, 2013

Chicago teachers’ union points the way

The teachers’ strike last September was a high-water mark in the class struggle in Chicago, and it shows in which…

January 4, 2013

Mumia Abu-Jamal honors Ramsey Clark & the Int’l Action Center

The following speech was recorded on Dec. 30, 2012, by Noelle Hanrahhan at prisonradio.org for the Jan. 12 gala dinner…

January 4, 2013

Fracking, global warming & capitalism

Taken from a talk by Betsey Piette, a Workers World Party organizer from Philadelphia, at the Nov. 17-18 WWP national…

January 4, 2013

The storm and the state

Taken from a talk by Imani Keith Henry, a Workers World Party organizer in New York City, at the Nov.…

January 4, 2013

Rally protests murders of Black & Brown youth

Alan Blueford would have turned 19 on Dec. 20, but instead he was killed by Oakland, Calif., police last May…

January 3, 2013

Hurricane Sandy still impacts workers & poor

The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut came up with a $60 billion figure for the damage Hurricane…

January 3, 2013

In defense of peoples’ power

Part 4: Capitalism profits from guns, war & reaction Violence and defense against violence are life-and-death social questions for those…

January 3, 2013

Fiscal axe aimed at Social Security

Struggle can still stop austerity cuts As we write, the new year has begun. Congress has not yet voted on…

January 2, 2013

What fiscal cliff?

Taken from a Dec. 11 audio column at prisonradio.org. From every TV and radio news broadcast, the words “fiscal cliff”…

January 2, 2013