U.S. and Canada

<span class="streamer2">Boston University</span><br /> Historic union win for grad workers

Boston — Over 3,000 new members of the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU), Service Employees (SEIU) Local 509, celebrated…

December 20, 2022

2022 – The year of the workers

This is the year of striking, fighting workers in the U.S. — coal miners, warehouse workers, nurses, baristas, prisoners, teachers…

December 19, 2022

La especulación tecnológica quiebra: decenas de miles de despedidos

Decenas de miles de trabajadores del sector tecnológico han sido despedidos este año de 2022. Las estimaciones varían, dependiendo de…

December 19, 2022

Critical hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dec. 16 — Supporters and family of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filled the courtroom and demonstrated outside the Philadelphia…

December 16, 2022

U.N. rocked by International Day of Persons with Disabilities 

On Dec. 2, the eve of the 30th annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities, disabled activists and artists and…

December 16, 2022

‘The Mumia exception’

Philadelphia For 41 years, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has been unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His…

December 15, 2022

Sanctions Kill: a book, a webinar, a movement

Several authors of the new book, “Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy,” discussed the destructive effect of sanctions…

December 15, 2022

Alex Saab on trial

Alex Saab, diplomat and Special Envoy for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, was placed on trial Dec. 12 in Miami…

December 15, 2022

On the Picket Line

New union wants to raise up Southern workers A new generation of labor activists has formed the Union of Southern…

December 15, 2022

Long COVID: a public health catastrophe

On Sept. 18, President Joe Biden declared: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still…

December 15, 2022