U.S. and Canada

Holiday gifts and the shorter work week

We have heard the saying,“Business and politics don’t mix.” In fact the opposite is true. Many right-wing bills — from…

December 13, 2012

United protest wants good jobs at a fair wage

New York — Carpenters, car wash workers, college professors, janitors, fast food workers and many others came together Dec. 6 in…

December 13, 2012

Schools push students to for-profit prisons

While U.S. corporations seem unwilling to cut into their profits to provide living-wage jobs for millions of unemployed youth, for-profit…

December 13, 2012

Community protests killer cops

Philadelphia community activists organized by Free the Streets marched on Dec. 7 from 61st and Market streets, near where Derrick…

December 13, 2012

Atlanta housing activists stop foreclosure

Atlanta, Dec. 10 — Housing justice activists ratcheted up the struggle against foreclosures, evictions and homelessness by reclaiming a boarded-up, bank-owned…

December 13, 2012

Oppressed youth fight neo-fascist & police terror

Corporate media are complicit in war on youths CeCe McDonald & Anoka students tear white hood off ‘bullying.’ Part 2…

December 13, 2012

Labor mobilizes to stop Michigan ‘right-to-work’ law

A declaration of war on the entire U.S. working class and labor unions Lansing, Mich., Dec. 11 — Michigan Gov.…

December 11, 2012

Proposal for general strike circulates in Michigan

Only hours after the Michigan Legislature voted in favor of a union busting “right to work” law on Dec. 6,…

December 10, 2012

FBI closes case on Sikh temple massacre

The FBI recently confirmed what it has stated all along: Wade Michael Page acted alone. Page, a white supremacist associated…

December 9, 2012

Manning testifies of torture conditions in tiny cell

Pfc. B. Manning testified in a military court pre-trial hearing on Nov. 29 and 30 at Fort Meade, Md., about…

December 9, 2012