Paul Ryan, ALEC protested

Two of the greatest enemies of working people were confronted in Kansas and Oklahoma over the past two weeks. On…

May 23, 2013

IRS: the real scandal

Republican politicians and reactionary media outlets have joined the ultrarightist Tea Party types in an all-out attack on the Internal…

May 23, 2013

‘Pathways’ program to gut City University of New York

New York — A cabal of bourgeois higher education policy wonks, media moguls and bankers have devised a scheme that…

May 23, 2013

Thousands walk out in Philadelphia: ’Save our schools!’

Philadelphia — For the third time in ten days, students walked out of classrooms here on May 17 to protest…

May 22, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage’

Part 1: Two schools of thought lock horns Supreme Court decisions are expected sometime in June on the constitutionality of…

May 22, 2013

Military sexual assault: Break the chains of command!

The struggle by women to stop being treated as men’s property and sexual objects has finally surfaced in the U.S.…

May 22, 2013

Grief and anger flow over murder of African-American transwoman in Cleveland

Despite many gains won through decades of struggle, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities are often…

May 22, 2013

Former U.S. puppet convicted of genocide in Guatemala

BULLETIN: On May 20, Guatemala’s highest court threw out Rios Montt’s conviction.  Appeals are being filed. On Dec. 4, 1982,…

May 22, 2013

50 years of African Union commemorated

On May 25, 1963, 33 independent African states met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to form the Organization of African Unity.…

May 22, 2013

Solidarity conference with African Revolution

In Detroit, the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice held a conference on May 18 entitled “Africa & U.S.…

May 22, 2013