U.S. and Canada

On the picket line

Locked-out sugar beet workers vote ‘no contract’ Even after a 10-month lockout, 63 percent of the sugar beet workers represented…

July 20, 2012

Mexico progressives charge fraud in defeat of AMLO

Another electoral fraud has taken place in Mexico. On July 1, Andres Manuel López Obrador, better known as AMLO and…

July 19, 2012

Charlotte Solidarity Center opens

The Occupy 4 Jobs Network opened the Charlotte Solidarity Center office the week of July 8 at Area 15, a…

July 19, 2012

Home foreclosure crisis rages on

Another consent order has been issued by the Department of Justice, this time with Wells Fargo & Company, the largest…

July 19, 2012

Jim Ricks: Lover of life, soldier for socialism

James Frederick Ricks came from rusty, dusty Lackawanna, N.Y., once a steel town near Buffalo. He became a New Yorker…

July 18, 2012

Heat waves, global warming & capitalist politics

Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana has not had much to say about the current deadly heat wave that has swept…

July 18, 2012

Pennsylvania fracking moratorium:
Only for the 1%

Philadelphia — With the stroke of a pen, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett exempted the state’s wealthiest counties from the direct…

July 18, 2012

Workers still hot at ‘Hot & Crusty’

Workers at Hot & Crusty restaurant picket each Thursday (shown here on July 5) to reinforce their position as negotiations…

July 18, 2012

Union defends locked-out Con Ed workers

New York — Con Edison, the utility company that supplies electricity, gas and steam to New York City and Westchester…

July 18, 2012

Police evict elementary school occupation

Oakland, Calif. - The city of Oakland, Calif., and its school district somehow found the funds to order a police…

July 18, 2012