Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 has been on strike since Jan. 16 against a plan by billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his billionaire supporters in the 1% to strip union protection from New York City school bus drivers and matrons. It’s a simple plan. New contracts that are up for bid Feb. 12 won’t have an [...]
Campaign launched to release Lynne Stewart
The struggle to free human rights champion Lynne Stewart has become extremely urgent, as the 73-year-old attorney has been diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. Stewart is in the fourth year of a 10-year sentence for issuing a press release on behalf of convicted former client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. She was successfully treated for [...]
A million Venezuelans affirm support for revolution
“The people’s love for Chávez continues.” This is not a quote from a worker in Caracas. Nor from a revolutionary anti-imperialist fighter. This is the title of a New York Times opinion video dated Jan. 23. Whether it was laced with cynicism and full of sarcasm or not, it is the absolute truth. No other [...]
Solidarity with Venezuela
Ten days of actions and meetings in the United States and other countries began on Feb. 22 in solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Its leader, President Hugo Chávez, is continuing his recovery from cancer surgery in Cuba. The postponement of Chávez’s inauguration for another term as president, attempts by the Venezuelan oligarchy to [...]
Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Struggle for Liberation
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On the 45th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive The following texts are based on an introduction on the Tet Offensive, given by LeiLani Dowell, and a talk on the Vietnamese liberation struggle given by Naomi Cohen at a Workers World Forum on January 30. The Tet Offensive of 1968 This year is the 45th anniversary [...]
Community protests as Baltimore killer cops go free
Outraged members of Baltimore’s African-American community and their supporters protested on Jan. 26 against the announcement by state’s attorney for Baltimore City, Gregg L. Bernstein, that the three Baltimore Police Department officers responsible for the death of Anthony Anderson Sr. would face no charges or penalty of any sort. The shocking news came when Bernstein [...]
Winner at Sundance: ‘Fruitvale’ is about police killing of Oscar Grant
African-American writer/director Ryan Coogler graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts only two years ago, but his life and times prepared him to make the dramatic story “Fruitvale,” which won both Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 26. At the [...]
Signal boost the peoples’ verdict—‘Free CeCe McDonald!’
1% & its hired guns can’t suppress growing solidarity Of all the words I’ve penned over decades — as a revolutionary journalist and editor; a writer/worker of leaflets, pamphlets and books; and a proud member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981 — I’m proudest of writing these three words: “Free CeCe Now!” I [...]
GM worker continues hunger strike
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Jorge Parra has not eaten for more than two months. The president of the Association of Injured Workers and Ex-Workers of General Motors Colmotores (Asotrecol) went on a hunger strike to draw public attention to the plight of former workers of the General Motors plant in Bogotá, Colombia. More than 200 workers were fired and denied [...]
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