Detroit

Emergency manager selected to kill jobs

Since March 25, the city of Detroit has been run by an unelected, 1%-beholden supreme dictator. On that day the…

May 2, 2013

Detroit youth rally for Korea

Red Youth in Detroit called a rally in solidarity with the Korean people on April 20. They said that in…

April 25, 2013

Detroit struggle ramps up vs. state takeover

Major developments took place in Detroit during the first week of the city’s rule under emergency manager Kevyn Orr. A…

April 7, 2013

Detroit y Colombia: trabajadores de auto siguen lucha

El 23 de marzo marcó 600 días de la ocupación frente a la embajada estadounidense en Bogotá, Colombia, por un…

April 4, 2013

Detroit and Colombia: Auto workers fight back

March 23 marked the 600th day of occupation outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, by a group of fired…

March 30, 2013

Michigan lesbians fight for marriage, adoption rights

“Love makes a family.” This is a simple and obvious statement. Yet in Michigan, where 56 percent of those polled…

March 21, 2013

Protests demand end to Detroit home tax foreclosures

Two demonstrations in Detroit have demanded an end to the massive number of home tax foreclosures going on in the…

March 21, 2013

Banks behind Detroit ’emergency manager’ takeover

Michigan’s multimillionaire Gov. Rick Snyder on March 14 appointed Washington lawyer Kevyn Orr as “emergency manager” over the city of…

March 19, 2013

From Alabama to Michigan, Black vote is under attack

Forty-eight years after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Supreme Court is currently deliberating about the historic…

March 6, 2013

Tashi Kiya: Revolutionary theoretician, activist

Detroit — Tashi Kiya, 74, an anti-imperialist, ­anti-racist people’s fighter, made his transition on Feb. 13 after a battle with cancer.…

March 1, 2013