U.S. and Canada

Boston school bus drivers vote in fired union leaders

Boston -- In a stunning victory, the militant, fighting rank and file of the Boston school bus drivers’ union, United…

May 4, 2015

Longshore workers shut down Bay Area ports on May Day

Oakland, Calif., May 1 -- Once again the membership of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 did a remarkable…

May 4, 2015

Upstate N.Y. farmworkers’ May Day: ‘We will not bow down’

Latino and Latina immigrant farmworkers held their first-ever May Day march in upstate New York at Marks Dairy Farms in…

May 4, 2015

World wide pressure to stop the murder of Mumia Abu-Jamal by medical neglect

Philadelphia --  Intensive worldwide efforts have been ramped up to raise awareness of the dire health crisis facing Mumia Abu-Jamal since…

May 4, 2015

Punishment for profit: The economics of mass incarceration

“Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today -- perhaps…

May 4, 2015

Workers World Party @WWPnatl

Workers World Party (@WWPnatl) is now on twitter! Follow @WWPnatl for live updates, events, calls to action, and more. WWP…

May 4, 2015

Forging real union solidarity

On March 9, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin signed the “Freedom To Work” bill, which made so-called “right to work”…

May 4, 2015

Feticide sentencing denounced as racist

For the first time in the United States, on March 30 a woman was convicted and ordered to spend 20…

May 4, 2015

Morgantown, West Virginia, activists for unity here, worldwide

Building left unity was on the agenda in Morgantown, W.Va., where the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Solidarity Conference was held April 18.…

May 4, 2015

Meetings honor Leslie Feinberg

By John Parker and Kris Hamel Events in Los Angeles and Detroit paid tribute to revolutionary communist, renowned author and…

May 4, 2015