U.S. and Canada

1966 murder prompted SNCC’s anti-war stance

Samuel “Sammy” Leamon Younge Jr., a 21-year-old activist from Tuskegee, Ala., was shot and killed at a Standard Oil gas…

January 29, 2016

NYC tenants’ rally confronts realtors

A large multinational protest chanted while mostly white men -- “suits” -- entered the New York Hilton Jan. 21 for…

January 29, 2016

Anthony Hill’s killer cop indicted

Atlanta, Jan. 21 — After a four-day, round-the-clock vigil was held in front of the DeKalb County Courthouse — despite frigid…

January 28, 2016

State terror and the ‘Drone Economy’

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Mary Ann Grady Flores, a Catholic Worker movement, anti-drone activist, was taken into custody in the DeWitt, N.Y.,…

January 28, 2016

Labor at the crossroads?

On Sept. 19, 1981, the AFL-CIO, under pressure from the rank and file as well as union locals throughout the…

January 28, 2016

MLK Day in Oakland, Calif.

On Jan. 18, some 3,000 people marched 4.6 miles from downtown Oakland, Calif., through West Oakland, ending at the Bay…

January 28, 2016

Boston school bus union members ‘in very high spirits’ post-victory

Jan. 24 — It has now been more than a month since Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers’…

January 27, 2016

Solidarity brings water to Flint

Water You Fighting For? It’s more than a great play on words. It’s a grassroots organization in Flint, Mich., founded…

January 26, 2016

Baltimore poor abandoned by capitalist government

The winter storm, driven by extra energy typical of this climate-change era, dropped 1 to 3 feet of snow from…

January 26, 2016

Black History Month Matters: Support WW

The heroic Black Lives Matter movement is the latest chapter in the centuries-long struggle to end the brutal, genocidal history…

January 26, 2016