U.S. and Canada

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

Undocumented students take over Regents meeting

Atlanta -- In a bold action, Georgia undocumented youth and their allies entered the meeting room of the Board of Regents…

May 19, 2016

Food workers fight for their jobs

By a UFCW steward Landover, Md. Food and Commercial Workers Local 400, joined by other unions, community organizations and half…

May 19, 2016

On the picket line

Aerospace machinists strike against two-tier system Some 400 aerospace workers at Triumph Composite Systems in Spokane, Wash., walked off the…

May 19, 2016

¡Ramón Jiménez presente!

Ramón J. Jiménez never stopped fighting, even after being diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. The Puerto Rican lawyer, Bronx…

May 19, 2016

San Francisco student hunger strikers win ethnic studies agreement

Four hunger strikers — Hassani Bell, Ahkeel Andres Mestayer, Julia Retzlaff and Sachiel Fredric Rosen — together with the Third…

May 18, 2016

An immigrant detention nightmare

Lumpkin, Ga., May 12 — On April 17, Alaa Ismail Yasin, a 27-year-old Palestinian who has been held in Stewart Detention…

May 18, 2016

Flint crisis drags on

The struggle for justice continues in Flint. The crisis of lead contamination, caused by a failure to add anti-corrosive chemicals…

May 18, 2016