U.S. and Canada

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

Juanita Starr Doares

Juanita Ann Starr Doares, a fighter for people’s rights, and against racism and injustice, died on Dec. 11. She was…

January 16, 2014

Lynne Stewart: Free

Taken from a Jan. 2, 2014, audio column at prisonradio.org. By the time you read this, Lynne Stewart, New York’s…

January 15, 2014

Black & Pink San Diego shows moving film on imprisoned transgender women

San Diego, Calif. -- A film showing the blatant discrimination that transgender people endure in the prison system was shown…

January 15, 2014

West Virginia coal industry poisons water supply

Charleston, W.Va. — A spill into the Elk River near Charleston, W.V., on Jan. 9 from a chemical plant owned…

January 14, 2014