U.S. and Canada

IFCO /Pastors for Peace resists IRS attacks

Once again the U.S. government is targeting the solidarity movement with harassment in an attempt to silence the progressive movement…

January 18, 2014

Georgia rally demands Medicaid expansion

Atlanta — From under a sea of umbrellas, a crowd of hundreds rallied here on Jan. 13, the opening day…

January 17, 2014

Setback for Veolia boosts Solidarity Day 2 for bus union

The fight to reinstate the wrongly fired leaders of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, got…

January 17, 2014

Autoworkers, community activists demand ‘people’s recovery’

For the fifth year in a row, the rank-and-file autoworker advocacy group Autoworker Caravan protested outside the North American International…

January 17, 2014

Celebrate the life of Comrade Frances Dostal

Frances Dostal, RN, a founding member of Workers World Party, died Dec. 26, 2013, in Cleveland at the age of…

January 17, 2014

Court rules against giveaway to banks in Detroit

Detroit,  Jan. 16 — With a decision community activists called “a major victory for the people of Detroit,” U.S. Bankruptcy…

January 16, 2014

Big Apple airport workers demand paid King holiday

On Dec. 19, hundreds of contract workers at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports rallied outside the New York headquarters of…

January 16, 2014

After 41 years in solitary, free Albert Woodfox NOW!

By Anne Pruden and Gloria Rubac New Orleans, Jan. 7 — Angola 3 supporters, numbering over 100, braved the unusual,…

January 16, 2014

A loving tribute to Milton Vera, Puerto Rican revolutionary

I met Milton roughly 30 years ago when I was working at Casa Nicaragua, during a time of tumultuous revolutionary…

January 16, 2014

Police killing of Andy Lopez: No justice! No peace!

Santa Rosa, Calif. – Supporters demanding justice for Andy Lopez, led by the Mothers in White, packed a Sonoma County…

January 16, 2014