U.S. and Canada

New York Legal Aid lawyers protest ICE courthouse arrests

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of immigrants in courthouses have skyrocketed since the inauguration of Donald Trump in January…

January 1, 2018

Say their names! Recy Taylor and Erica Garner

Say her name: Mrs. Recy Taylor. Born Dec. 31, 1919, and died Dec. 28, 2017. Say her name: Erica Garner.…

January 1, 2018

Denied warmth, Brooklyn, N.Y., tenants turn up heat on landlord

Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 18 — “Baby, It's Cold Inside!” read the large letters which were shining this important message tonight atop…

December 28, 2017

Labor groups fight poor conditions in poultry industry

Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 18 — Labor groups are fighting for safer conditions for poultry workers and against proposed measures to…

December 24, 2017

Free Mumia! Looking back, looking forward

"When you're pushing the lie, the truth is very threatening." — Ramona Africa of the MOVE organization. The prolonged fight…

December 24, 2017

New York: Metro Transit debt makes profits for Wall Street

New York — The Metropolitan Transit Authority here is on a collision course for a financial crash. It just approved…

December 21, 2017

Lessons of ‘The Hammer & the Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party 1928-1951’

  An earlier version of this article originally appeared on Dec. 14 in The Forge, a socialist newspaper for the…

December 21, 2017

Chicago sex workers protest at sheriff’s office

Sex workers and supporters rallied at Chicago’s Daley Center on Dec. 17 to express outrage at the recent murder of…

December 21, 2017

Boss Trump attacks low-wage workers

Eric Cantor, Republican House majority leader in 2012, put out a tweet to celebrate Labor Day that year. It failed…

December 20, 2017

Bears Ears fight exposes history of U.S. genocide

The Trump White House’s plan to steal 1 million acres from Bears Ears National Monument lays bare the history of…

December 19, 2017