U.S. and Canada

Solitary confinement is ‘no touch’ torture and must be abolished

Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the heroic WikiLeaks whistleblower and transgender activist currently jailed in the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.,…

May 30, 2016

Detroit activists oppose increased fracking waste

Detroit residents and community activists have been organizing since last year to oppose the increased processing and dumping of hazardous…

May 27, 2016

San Diego families unite against police abuse

Families from San Diego’s African-American and Latino/a communities met at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on May 21, the sixth…

May 26, 2016

New York State farmworkers fight for right to organize

Farmworkers are bravely and tenaciously fighting for the right to organize in New York state. Currently there is no statewide…

May 26, 2016

Black Liberation and the reemergence of Malcolm X

Lilly is WWP’s vice presidential candidate in the 2016 elections. The following article is based on a talk given at…

May 25, 2016

Durham, N.C., Protests say ‘No!’ to new cop HQ

Those struggling to shut down the city’s plans to build a $81 million police headquarters here held their seventh weekly…

May 24, 2016

Food workers vote to strike Kroger

In a fabulous display of working-class power, hundreds of members of the Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 voted unanimously…

May 24, 2016

Verizon strike demonstrates its effectiveness

May 22 -- “While union workers insist that the strike will impair the company’s customer service calls and equipment installation,…

May 23, 2016

San Francisco police chief fired; win for #Frisco500

San Francisco, May 19 -- It’s less than a month since the “Frisco Five” began a  hunger strike with a…

May 23, 2016

Environmental, Indigenous groups protest climate change

Anacortes, Wash. - From May 13 through May 15, the group “Break Free Pacific Northwest” held a weekend of actions…

May 23, 2016