U.S. and Canada

Trayvon & the war against Us

Taken from a June 17 audio column at prisonradio.org. For a brief moment in time, the name and fate of…

July 20, 2012

Boots Riley backs sit-in

Supporters of the Lakeview Elementary School sit-in gathered for a “Celebration and Convergence for Public Education” on July 15. Police…

July 20, 2012

Glaxo $3 billion fine – Just the cost of doing business

It is being touted as the largest financial penalty of its kind in the U.S. against a pharmaceutical corporation. In…

July 20, 2012

On the picket line

Locked-out sugar beet workers vote ‘no contract’ Even after a 10-month lockout, 63 percent of the sugar beet workers represented…

July 20, 2012

Mexico progressives charge fraud in defeat of AMLO

Another electoral fraud has taken place in Mexico. On July 1, Andres Manuel López Obrador, better known as AMLO and…

July 19, 2012

Charlotte Solidarity Center opens

The Occupy 4 Jobs Network opened the Charlotte Solidarity Center office the week of July 8 at Area 15, a…

July 19, 2012

Home foreclosure crisis rages on

Another consent order has been issued by the Department of Justice, this time with Wells Fargo & Company, the largest…

July 19, 2012

Jim Ricks: Lover of life, soldier for socialism

James Frederick Ricks came from rusty, dusty Lackawanna, N.Y., once a steel town near Buffalo. He became a New Yorker…

July 18, 2012

Heat waves, global warming & capitalist politics

Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana has not had much to say about the current deadly heat wave that has swept…

July 18, 2012

Pennsylvania fracking moratorium:<br />Only for the 1%

Philadelphia — With the stroke of a pen, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett exempted the state’s wealthiest counties from the direct…

July 18, 2012