Victory for bakery worker

Morima Ortiz and others had been picketing Kenny’s Bakery in northern Manhattan for over a year. Ortiz worked there for…

April 27, 2015

On the picket line

Low-wage restaurant workers: ‘#StopTheOtherNRA’ Several hundred low-wage restaurant workers and their supporters took to the streets of the U.S. capital…

April 27, 2015

Refugee crisis in Mediterranean

A ship with 700 refugees on board capsized south of the Italian island of Lampedusa in Libyan waters on April…

April 27, 2015

Day of solidarity with Venezuela

[youtube=https://youtu.be/pjIS_hTMU8g&rel=0] Video report on the April 19 International Days of Solidarity with Venezuela. Below is the announcement of the event:…

April 25, 2015

Milwaukee teachers, students, parents march against cuts

Hundreds of members of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, students and community supporters protested in Milwaukee April 18 to end…

April 24, 2015

‘Extend tax foreclosure moratorium!’

Activists in Detroit picketed the Michigan state building on April 16 to demand a permanent moratorium on tax foreclosures and…

April 24, 2015

Eric Harris and Tulsa’s racist history

White millionaire Robert Bates, a former insurance executive, claims he “accidently” killed Eric Harris, an unarmed Black man, on April…

April 24, 2015

Vietnam 40 years after liberation: Visitors flock to the tunnels of Cu Chi

By Paul Wilcox and Joyce Chediac Cu Chi District, Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, known as Saigon before its liberation,…

April 24, 2015

Lugansk: Left forces unite, call international solidarity conference

The unity of leftist forces in the embattled Donbass region, formerly part of southeastern Ukraine, took a big step forward…

April 24, 2015

Dock workers to ‘shut it down’

MAY DAY PROTEST OF POLICE KILLINGS On Friday, May 1 -- International Workers’ Day -- the cranes for loading cargo…

April 23, 2015