Dozens of anti-capitalists gathered April 26-27, the weekend before May Day, International Workers Day, to take part in a two-day activist teach-in in Salt Lake City, Utah. The teach-in focused on the challenges for building the U.S. labor movement, women workers advancing the struggle and also the fight against tar sands strip mining proposed in [...]
The 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Dream” speech and the 45th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign were remembered here on April 4 at a historic gathering for the purpose of rebuilding the movement. The event was organized by “The Dream Team” 2013, a project of the R.I. People’s Assembly. It was [...]
Only struggle can win legalization! As Washington reveals its long-awaited legislation on so-called “immigration reform,” the issue of strategy and tactics for immigrant and worker rights becomes ever more important. The struggle for the rights of the working class against the ruling class is a weighty topic, to say the least. What workers and oppressed [...]
Tens of thousands of immigrant rights activists rallied on April 10 across the United States demanding that the federal government develop a comprehensive program to allow approximately 11 million undocumented people remain inside the country, with an option aimed at legalization. Instead, the 844-page Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, introduced April 17, [...]
The U.S. government is increasing its leading role in the war to topple the government of Syria. At the April 20 meeting of the 11 member “Friends of Syria” held in Istanbul, Turkey, Secretary of State John Kerry announced a doubling of U.S. aid to the Syrian rebels. An additional $123 million in “nonlethal” aid [...]
An important labor strike is happening in McDonough, Ga., just south of Atlanta. Workers at Republic Services/Allied Waste are members of Teamsters Local 728 who won their election in 2011. They began an unfair labor practices strike on April 15, caused in part by the illegal firing of a union supporter. Republic Services is a [...]
Georgia school workers marched in Atlanta on April 20 along with their union, student and community allies to claim victory after regaining their unemployment benefits. Labor Commissioner Mark Butler had illegally taken the benefits away from the workers in 2012. The chanting, singing crowd of school bus drivers from metro Atlanta, Columbus and Savannah; college [...]
Atlanta — A few dozen Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members, in full racist regalia, stood on the steps of the Georgia Capitol here spewing their vile white supremacist filth on April 20. Across the street, 150 or more anti-racists drowned out their hate speech with a cacophony of drums, whistles and chants. Numerous police agencies, [...]
A “Rally to Save Busing” was well received by lunch hour crowds in downtown Brooklyn on April 19. The citywide group Parents to Improve School Transportation (PIST NYC) chose the site where the Department of Education — controlled by billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg — has its contracts office. Flyers for the event charged authorities with [...]
Shock and outrage erupted in a courtroom in Guatemala City on April 18 as a recused “appeals” judge suspended the genocide trial of Efrain Rios Montt. The former general had come to power through a military coup in 1982. He and his head of intelligence, Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, were finally charged with mass murders that [...]
