U.S. and Canada

Community speaks out to stop hiring of stop-and-frisk ‘super-cop’

Oakland, Calif. — Hundreds of people packed an Oakland City Council Safety Committee public hearing Jan. 15 to protest a…

January 24, 2013

West Coast activists resist growing repression

Oakland, Calif. — Occupy activists from the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest have been the target of arrests and FBI…

January 24, 2013

U.S. solidarity actions to declare: ‘We are all Chávez’

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza, the consul general of Venezuela in Chicago, will be the special guest speaker at a night of solidarity…

January 23, 2013

Leo Robinson, rank-and-file, internationalist fighter

Leo Robinson, a working-class fighter on the West Coast docks and in the community, and an internationalist, succumbed to cancer…

January 23, 2013

Martin Luther King Day events promote workers’ struggles

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who would have been 84 this month, was assassinated in 1968 at the age of…

January 22, 2013

Detroit MLK Day focuses on defeating ‘right-to-work’ and police brutality

Speakers from the labor movement and community organizations were featured at this year’s Detroit Martin Luther King Day. The annual…

January 22, 2013

Charlotte, N.C., city workers win important victory

The City Council in Charlotte, N.C., voted 6-5 on Jan. 14 to approve payroll dues deduction for all five city worker…

January 22, 2013

New WW youth blog takes inspiration from Black Panther Party

The youth of Workers World Party have gone live with a new collaborative blog entitled "Can't Jail the Revolution." The…

January 22, 2013

‘Idle No More’ protests in Detroit

The women in this photo were among more than 150 Idle No More activists and supporters who demonstrated in Detroit…

January 22, 2013

Role of state terror in death of anti-SOPA activist Aaron Swartz

The largest online protest in history, known as the anti-SOPA Internet strike, took place on Jan. 18 a year ago…

January 21, 2013