U.S. and Canada

On the picket line

U.S. oil workers strike Shell The United Steelworkers called a strike on Feb. 1 at nine plants run by Royal…

February 6, 2015

African Burial Ground exposes slavery

Yes, slavery existed in the North, too. New York was one of the largest centers of slaveholding in the U.S.…

February 5, 2015

The right to rebel: The case of Ahmed Evans

Part 1: How the Glenville Rebellion briefly won community control in 1968 On July 23, 1968, a gun battle between…

February 5, 2015

Another legal victory for Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox

Albert Woodfox, one of the Angola 3 political prisoners, has spent 42 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana. On Nov.…

February 5, 2015

Second near-disaster as shale oil train derails

Philadelphia -- For the second time in just over a year, a train carrying Bakken Shale crude oil derailed in…

February 4, 2015

Oakland, Calif., WWP hosts resistance fighters

Oakland, Calif. -- At a Workers World Party meeting here on Jan. 31, Imani Henry asked the audience, "How do…

February 3, 2015

‘Don’t privatize Oakland schools!’

Several hundred Oakland Education Association teachers as well as students and parents rallied outside an Oakland Unified School District Board…

February 3, 2015

Banks bailed out — themselves

Detroit, Feb. 1 — When the Troika — the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank — disbursed…

February 3, 2015

Despite historic blizzard, bus drivers pack court for union militant

Boston, Feb. 2 — A record-breaking snowstorm has shut down streets, schools and airline flights throughout the Northeast. With 34.1…

February 2, 2015

Baltimore PPA protests new killings by cops

Within a two-day period in late January, the Baltimore City Police Department shot two Black people, killing one of them.…

February 2, 2015