U.S. and Canada

On West Coast, bosses threaten lockout of longshore workers

Oakland, Calif. -- The Pacific Maritime Association announced on Feb. 4 their intent to lock out the International Longshore and…

February 9, 2015

Marriage equality movement progresses

Bulletin: As of Feb. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will not stay a federal court ruling ordering same-sex marriages to…

February 9, 2015

Wisconsin anti-worker guv targets public education

Resistance to Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget proposal — Senate Bill 21, released in early February — is ongoing across…

February 9, 2015

Drop charges on ‘Black Friday 14’!

On so-called Black Friday 2014, considered the busiest shopping day of the year one day after “Thanksgiving,” 14 Black activists pulled off…

February 9, 2015

African-American jockeys battle racism

The Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013.  It  opened in 1863, and became a…

February 9, 2015

Oil refinery workers begin major strike

Catlettsburg, Ky., Feb. 5 — Oil refinery workers here are on what they say is their biggest strike since 1980.…

February 6, 2015

Louisiana’s African slave revolt of 1811

Some writers today note that an often hidden and misrepresented anti-slavery rebellion in 1811 along the German Coast in Louisiana…

February 6, 2015

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