Washington, D.C. — On the morning of Oct. 8, several hundred LGBTQ2S people and allies defiantly rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court to demand protections against discrimination in the workplace. The three cases being heard […]
Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers are in the fifth week on their nationwide strike against General Motors. Key issues for the union include ending the company’s use of tiered wage plans that […]
On Oct. 5, a few dozen activists with the Prisoner Solidarity Committee gathered outside the Harford County Detention Center in Bel Air, Md., to protest the untimely death of father of five Marlyn Barnes and […]
Oct. 13 — In recent weeks, we have seen naked violence unleashed against Black trans women, directed against them by the state in the form of police beatings and by rightist forces in this emerging […]
On Oct. 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s West African revolutionary leader, was assassinated. Sankara, a Marxist and revolutionary, has been nicknamed “Africa’s Che Guevara.” It is interesting to note that at a time when […]
You have heard a lot about Cuba. Maybe your friends or neighbors traveled there after direct commercial flights from U.S. airports resumed in 2015. Or had their cruise to Cuba cancelled in June 2019. Or […]
This statement is a personal one intended to support opinions, especially in the Caribbean, that the costs of practical recovery from annual hurricanes should not fall, as they mainly do, on the victims of these […]
A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]
First in a series A century ago, Chicago was convulsed by anti-Black riots. For days, African Americans were beaten and killed. Black workers couldn’t go to their jobs in the Union Stockyards, steel mills or […]
New York — Hundreds of people gathered in Corona Plaza in the Borough of Queens on Oct. 13 to demand that Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, resign. Ecuadorian immigrants and their supporters hailed the mass uprising in […]
Following 12 days of massive protests, the government of Lenín Moreno repealed Decree 883 which formalized neoliberal reforms. At the same time, it launched a crackdown on political opponents. On October 13, the people of […]
U.S. Peace Council statement on Turkish incursion into Syria The U.S. Peace Council strongly condemns the illegal incursion of the Turkish forces into Syria with the approval of the Trump Administration and in direct violation […]
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 3 Up to the 1920s, Chicago was the center of the labor movement in the United States. It was the heart and soul of the eight-hour-day […]
A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]
First in a series A century ago, Chicago was convulsed by anti-Black riots. For days, African Americans were beaten and killed. Black workers couldn’t go to their jobs in the Union Stockyards, steel mills or […]
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