U.S. and Canada

Hurricane Sandy and capitalism

Like a giant magnifying glass, a natural disaster reveals in startling detail the dimensions of the social disaster that lie…

December 6, 2012

Global battle against exploitation

Workers World Forum   On Nov. 30, a week after the “Black Friday” protests at Walmart and the horrific garment…

December 6, 2012

Workers say ‘We finally stood up’

Niles, Ohio — Forty-four members of Steelworkers Local 4564-02 walked off their jobs on Sept. 13 at Phillips Manufacturing in…

December 6, 2012

Ann Arbor, Mich., students help stop foreclosure

Led by students from the University of Michigan, protesters picketed Dec. 1 at the PNC Bank in Ann Arbor, Mich.,…

December 6, 2012

Detroit homeowners vs mortgage swindle

One after another, homeowners who were swindled by Paramount Land Holdings in 2009, spoke before the Detroit Police and Fire…

December 6, 2012

Fast food workers fight back: We can’t survive on $7.25

Revolutionary thinkers wrote centuries ago that sometimes decades can go by and nothing of note happens in the class struggle.…

December 5, 2012

ILWU clerical workers shut down Port of Los Angeles

Dec. 5 update: Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 63 won a tentative agreement. Dec. 2…

December 5, 2012

Students resist being silent

The May 4th massacre of four unarmed college students at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970 at the height…

December 5, 2012

Anti-war activists report on Pakistan trip, attack drones

A standing-room-only crowd came out to the Berkeley Fellowship Hall on Dec. 2 to hear eyewitness reports of a visit…

December 5, 2012

Walmart: Acosada por el espectro de organización sindical

Secaucus, Nueva Jersey — El 1% de la clase capitalista está temblando ante el espectro de una victoria sindical contra…

December 5, 2012