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Imperialist wars, growing income gap undermine U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals

This year, the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals were scheduled to reach certain objectives in reducing poverty and improving living…

July 9, 2015

Oil strike wins improved safety language

Members of Steelworkers Local 13-1 begin returning to work at Marathon Oil’s Galveston Bay Refinery (GBR) on July 6. After…

July 9, 2015

Call for mass actions to stop Saudi bombing of Yemen

July 6 — The Pentagon-backed and -coordinated bombing campaign has killed thousands and wounded thousands more in Yemen since the…

July 9, 2015

Protests challenge deportation of Haitians

July 1 saw protests in Miami, Philadelphia and New York City against the Dominican Republic’s policy of deporting Dominicans of…

July 8, 2015

Wall Street seeks neoliberal ‘solution’ for Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla surprised people when he said in a televised message June 29 that Puerto Rico’s…

July 7, 2015

U.S.-NATO steps up military threats on Russia’s borders

Following a symbolic vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10 to ban support for Ukraine’s fascist Azov…

July 7, 2015

In rebuff to European financial oligarchy, Greek masses vote ‘No!’ to austerity

July 6, 4 p.m., EDT -- By a vote of 61 percent to 39 percent, the Greek masses have given…

July 6, 2015

Solidarity with Greek workers

Demonstrators from the International Action Center, the Peoples Power Assembly, the revolutionary youth group FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together) and…

July 6, 2015

Greek Debt Committee declares all debt to the Troika ‘illegal, illegitimate, and odious’

Last spring the Syriza-led Greek Parliament, over the protests of opposition parties, authorized a committee to audit the debt. Below…

July 6, 2015

México’s teachers struggle for justice

Cuernavaca, México -- “To be a teacher and not to fight is a contradiction in our fundamental way of teaching.”…

July 6, 2015