U.S. and Canada

Campaigns largely ignore issues facing African Americans

Democratic Party candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are both making appeals to win over African-American voters during the final…

April 21, 2016

Philadelphia Day of Rage held despite arrests

Despite heavy-handed police repression against three leading organizers, members of the Philadelphia Coalition for R.E.A.L. (Racial, Economic And Legal) Justice…

April 21, 2016

Michigan prisoners continue fight for decent food

April 18 — For three weeks, food protests in three Michigan prisons have been over 95 percent successful. The latest…

April 21, 2016

A turn towards fighting unionism

Chicago -- For decades now, going back to the Cold War era when most left-wing leaders were purged from the U.S.…

April 21, 2016

Students win gender-neutral bathroom

Los Angeles -- Transgender and queer students at a high school here scored a victory for the entire lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

April 21, 2016

Verizon workers fight back

They had tried hard to reach a fair contract for 10 months and were fed up. So, on April 13,…

April 20, 2016

Verizon strikers garner solidarity

On April 13, 40,000 Verizon wireline workers, represented by the Communications Workers (CWA) and International Electrical Workers (IBEW), went out…

April 20, 2016

‘Trump = hate + greed’

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Right-wing presidential candidate and billionaire Donald Trump brought his strategy of hate-and-divide to central and upstate New York.…

April 20, 2016

Baltimore protesters disrupt Clinton spectacle

Baltimore -- Activists from the People’s Power Assembly, the anti-police brutality movement and Workers World Party unfurled banners exposing Hillary Clinton’s…

April 20, 2016

Low-wage workers strike for $15 and a union

On Thursday, April 14, workers in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and more than 300 other cities across the…

April 20, 2016