U.S. and Canada

Emancipation Proclamation and Night Watch

Jan. 1, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Effective…

January 2, 2013

Postal hunger strike targets Congress

Washington, D.C. — Postal workers carried out a six-day encampment and hunger strike once again in Washington, D.C. This time they…

January 2, 2013

Detroit charter school teachers go union

Seventy percent of the teachers at the César Chávez Academy in Detroit have signed up to join the American Federation…

January 2, 2013

Origins of Michigan’s ‘right-to-work’ union-busting law

The passage of the union-busting “right-to-work” law in Michigan is a severe legal setback for the labor movement and for…

December 21, 2012

Hit by the capitalist crisis, ‘youth globally are fighting back’

  Following is a talk by Ben Carroll of the Durham, N.C., branch of Workers World Party to WWP’s National…

December 21, 2012

Manning picked as Person of the Year

By an overwhelming vote of its online readers, the British newspaper The Guardian has been forced to name U.S. political…

December 21, 2012

Charleston, S.C., port shutdown blocks ship loaded with Walmart textiles

Charleston, S.C., Dec. 20  — At 6:00 a.m. today, more than 25 community members and union members from across South Carolina…

December 20, 2012

Southern conference in solidarity with nurses, dock workers

Charleston, S.C. — People from the West Coast and across the country traveled to Charleston, S.C., to attend the ninth biannual…

December 20, 2012

Nat’l People’s Assembly decries police terror, lack of jobs

Baltimore — There was excitement in the air as people gathered in Baltimore on Dec.15 for the first National People’s Power…

December 20, 2012

Right-wing continues attacks on Michigan workers, oppressed

Since the passage of “right-to-work” legislation in Michigan on Dec. 11, unions and community organizations have vowed to continue their…

December 20, 2012