U.S. and Canada

Trail-blazing women of our time

Rocket scientist, inventor, cancer pioneer, human computer, bomber pilot, judo master. Why do we have to read their obituaries to…

February 18, 2014

After emancipation, ‘Sick from freedom’

Last year the U.S. commemorated the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave enslaved…

February 15, 2014

North Carolina burning

They call it Moral Mondays and in North Carolina this means a movement of civil disobedience led by the Rev.…

February 15, 2014

Debt, Cuba and Detroit

The following is excerpted from a talk by Cheryl LaBash, an organizer for last summer’s Five Days for the Cuban…

February 15, 2014

Why Debbie Dogskin died

As propane prices soar, 25 states have declared an energy emergency, but it came too late for Debbie Dogskin. And…

February 14, 2014

Protest hits NYC Wendy’s

A lunchtime protest in downtown Manhattan, N.Y., offered a strong show of support for former Wendy's worker Rynetta Bennett, who…

February 14, 2014

Leaked documents tell what NSA spy programs do

Revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency spy programs have appeared in German and Dutch magazines.  The articles’ source appears…

February 14, 2014

Fifty years after ‘war on poverty,’ class divisions widen

Some five decades after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” class divisions inside the U.S. are widening.…

February 14, 2014

Demand justice for Central Park 5

New York – Supporters packed the steps of City Hall on Feb. 4 to demand that New York City Mayor…

February 14, 2014

Lifelong communist Frances Dostal remembered

Frances Dostal, a founding member of Workers World Party who died Dec. 26, was remembered Feb. 1 in Cleveland by…

February 13, 2014