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Workers in Rio: ‘No poverty, no coup!’

Labeling the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro the “Exclusion Games” because there is no discount for Brazilians to attend…

August 9, 2016

ARACELIO IGLESIAS DÍAZ: 20th-century labor leader remembered

By Ildefonso Gustavo Díaz Sandoval and Rosa María Oliva Enríquez A guest article from correspondents in Cuba. Aracelio Iglesias Díaz…

August 7, 2016

Current challenges in South African election

July 14 - A nationwide election for local offices in 278 municipalities across South Africa is taking place Aug. 3.…

August 7, 2016

Haitians challenge Clinton

Komokoda (the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti) protested in Philadelphia on July 26 against the ruinous role played…

August 4, 2016

Coup and ‘countercoup’ disrupt Turkish state

Aug. 1 — Two weeks after the collapse of an attempted coup, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling…

August 3, 2016

Venezuelan workers take over U.S. plant

Nearly a thousand workers at a large, former Kimberly-Clark plant in Venezuela are back on the job, making sorely needed…

August 2, 2016

Electrical Workers BDS solidarity upheld

Last August the United Electrical Workers took a brave stand for international solidarity at their national convention by adopting a…

July 31, 2016

Letter from Palestinian political prisoner Bilal Kayed to demonstrators at DNC

Following is a letter from Mahmoud Kayed, brother of Palestinian political prisoner Bilal Kayed, to the demonstrators at the Democratic…

July 29, 2016

Display to honor Gazan children killed by Israel

Des Moines, Iowa The American Friends Service Committee will honor the victims of Israel’s 2014 military assault on Gaza with…

July 29, 2016

Free south Korean labor leader!

Han Sang-gyun, president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, was sentenced to five years in prison on July 4.…

July 28, 2016