Obama’s visit to Hiroshima

President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima, Japan, on May 27 will be the first such visit by a U.S. president…

May 22, 2016

African American Museum of History and Culture to open in DC

A center designed for the preservation and exhibition of the contributions of people of African descent in the United States…

May 22, 2016

Michael Ratner: 1943 – 2016

The progressive and anti-imperialist movement lost a valued fighter on May 11, when Michael Ratner died at the age of…

May 22, 2016

Baltimore activists denounce voter suppression

In an unprecedented move, the State Board of Elections decertified Baltimore city primary election results on May 12 until it…

May 20, 2016

African Liberation Day at 53: U.S. intervention continues

May 25 marks the 53rd anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity, known as the African Union…

May 20, 2016

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated

Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Hiroshima on May 27, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit…

May 20, 2016

U.S. missiles in Romania and Poland put Europe on the nuclear frontline

At a ribbon cutting ceremony at the airbase of Deveselu in Romania, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg inaugurated the "Aegis…

May 20, 2016

Demands to fire SF police chief reach crescendo – he’s out

Update: Chief Suhr was fired on 5/19 after the SFPD killing of another Black person that morning, a 27 year…

May 20, 2016

Verizon strikers fight for all workers

For more than a month, Verizon workers in the company’s landline and broadband FIOS sectors have been on strike in…

May 19, 2016

Boston Verizon strikers hold mass march

Nearly 1,000 strikers and their supporters demonstrated their rock-solid determination to win against Verizon’s corporate war on the hardworking members…

May 19, 2016