U.S. and Canada

Sanitation and other public workers deserve support

By a New York City Sanitation Department Worker On top of sanitation workers laboring 12-hour workdays and seven-day workweeks, needed…

November 14, 2012

Anti-racist youth counter fascists

On Nov. 10, the "National Socialist Party," commonly known as neo-Nazi scum, joined with the Ku Klux Klan to organize…

November 14, 2012

Chrysler workers fuming over new speed-up

At Chrysler’s Warren, Mich., stamping plant, more than 400 workers have signed petitions opposing a new work schedule known as…

November 11, 2012

Detroit struggles continue to stop foreclosures, evictions

Tens of thousands of foreclosures have occurred in Detroit over the last five years. As a result, communities have been…

November 11, 2012

Boston tenants fight rent hikes, evictions

Tenants and supporters marched to the offices of Alpha Real Estate in Boston to oppose the unprecedented, forced, mass, “no-fault”…

November 11, 2012

Hurricane Sandy, climate change and capitalist crisis

A crisis arising out of a major natural disaster tends to reveal a society’s strengths and weaknesses, values and priorities,…

November 8, 2012

Community meets to condemn killer cops

It was a meeting held against all odds. Hurricane Sandy had just swept up the Eastern seaboard. Public transit was…

November 8, 2012

Racist cops protested in Philadelphia

Community members protested outside a Fraternal Order of Police benefit in Philadelphia on Oct. 28.  One sign read, “The FOP…

November 8, 2012

Six hospital evacuations in NY-NJ

Capitalist priorities intensify storm crisis The storm that hit the U.S. East Coast Oct. 29 exposed the harm done by…

November 7, 2012

Native nations respond to Hurricane Sandy

Nov. 2 — “We know a tidal surge of about four to six feet came into the Reservation. We still…

November 7, 2012