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Spain: Free Alfon!

There are times when an individual framed, beaten and jailed by the police is just a victim. There are other…

January 8, 2013

U.S. agent’s family calls for negotiations with Cuba

As of Dec. 3, U.S. Agency for International Development contractor Alan Gross has been in jail in Cuba for three…

January 7, 2013

2013: a year to free the Cuban 5

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González are five Cuban men held unjustly for their 15th…

January 7, 2013

U.S. to deploy troops to 35 African countries

The Barack Obama administration revealed plans to deploy 3,500 troops to nearly three dozen African states to purportedly address a…

January 7, 2013

Anti-war group calls for vigilance as battle for Syria continues

The United National Anti-war Coalition has called upon anti-war activists across the United States to be vigilant against the growing…

January 7, 2013

’Bangladeshi workers become worst victims of greed for profit’

Interview with communist leader on Nov. 24 fire Workers World conducted the following interview with Khalequzzaman, the general secretary of…

January 4, 2013

Portugal’s railroad workers strike

To get a loan from the Euro Zone and the International Monetary Fund, the Portugal rightist government was only too…

January 3, 2013

Horrific rape sparks mass protests in India

An outraged mass movement has brought hundreds of thousands, mainly women, into the streets of India to protest rape and…

January 2, 2013

Idle No More movement sweeps across Canada

“Idle No More,” a movement led by First Nations (Native) peoples in defense of the water, the land, the sky…

January 2, 2013

Coal miners, Hurricane Sandy and China’s GreenGen

This year, possibly for the first time ever, the United Mine Workers did not endorse a presidential candidate. In 2008,…

December 21, 2012