U.S. and Canada

Boston-area school bus drivers: Anatomy of a union victory

Boston — The bus drivers of Eastern Bus Co. have won the right to join militant Local 8751 of the…

September 6, 2012

Derrick Duncan: Jamaican immigrant & revolutionary

It’s tragic when a person in his 40s dies suddenly of a mysterious illness. But it’s especially tragic when he…

September 6, 2012

Court re-charges transgender author Leslie Feinberg for action supporting CeCe McDonald

Editor’s note: A campaign has been initiated to demand that the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office drop the charges against Leslie…

September 6, 2012

On the picket line

Steelworkers on strike in West Virginia When bosses at Constellium Aluminum refused to budge from a lousy five-year contract, the…

September 6, 2012

Protesters flood ‘Wall Street South’

Charlotte, N.C. — Called “the March on Wall Street South,” a demonstration confronting the banks and corporations headquartered here that…

September 5, 2012

Why incomes plunged during capitalist ‘recovery’

The mass of the people fell back financially during the latest so-called capitalist recovery — even more than they did…

September 2, 2012

Michigan LGBTQ community is ‘Hungry 4 Equality’

Detroit — David Garcia, executive director of Affirmations, Detroit’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community center, went on a…

September 2, 2012

Stop Wall Street’s war on women

When U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a Republican Senate candidate, stated that women don’t become pregnant from “legitimate rape,” he insulted…

September 2, 2012

New York cops shoot 10 during morning rush hour

New York — On Aug. 24, two New York police officers turned what by all accounts was a targeted killing by…

September 2, 2012

Immigrant youth are targets of new racist edict in Arizona

Tucson, Ariz. — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued Executive Order 2012-06 on Aug. 15, denying all state and local public benefits…

September 2, 2012