U.S. and Canada

April 15 protests: Turning point for low-wage workers

Analysis This April 15 could be the largest united protest of fast food workers ever. Fast food workers, who have…

April 9, 2015

Baltimore activists fight back – Water is a human right!

At the end of March, Baltimore city officials announced that they would be turning off the water supply to a…

April 9, 2015

Boston bus drivers stand ground against Veolia

The unique approach of Boston School Bus Drivers, Steelworkers Local 8751, to unionism and solidarity with the oppressed offers a…

April 9, 2015

150 years after U.S. Civil War, anti-racist struggle continues

Confederate Army forces retreated from Richmond, Va., in early April 1865 in the face of advancing Union troops, many of…

April 9, 2015

People’s Tribunal to fight police brutality launched

Harlem, N.Y. — On April 2, community members, activists and organizational leaders packed the historic National Black Theatre in Harlem,…

April 7, 2015

Young autoworker dies at hands of Detroit police

On March 30, 24-year-old Anthony Clark Reed died at the hands of Detroit police. The young African-American nursing student, also…

April 7, 2015

Outrage pushes back bigoted Indiana law

From the minute Indiana Gov. Mike Pense passed the bigoted “Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” the law permitting businesses to discriminate…

April 6, 2015

Mass protests, boycott specter make anti-LGBTQ laws bad for business

It is rare when the capitalist class openly reveals its relationship to its political servants. But in the cases of…

April 6, 2015

Mass outrage over cops’ near-lynching of Black autoworker in Detroit

Detroit -- Millions of people around the United States have seen the video of the brutal beating and choking of…

April 6, 2015

Ferguson U.S.A.

Transcribed from March 5 audio column posted by prisonradio.org. With breathless news reports, the U.S. Deptartment of Justice’s Pattern and…

April 6, 2015