Author: Lallan Schoenstein

A growing May Day movement is calling for “No Work, No School, No Shopping” on May 1. The call is driven by rising anger at war, attacks on immigrants, and a system that cuts what […]

The labor movement that helped drive the Jan. 23 anti-ICE Minnesota General Strike is now lending its muscle to support the meatpackers’ strike by members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 in Greeley, […]

On Feb. 4, workers gathered in a Greeley, Colorado hotel to vote for strike authorization, empowering the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) meatpackers union members Local 7 to go on strike if negotiations broke […]

The detention of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and revolutionary leader Cilia Flores — prisoners of war and political captives of U.S. imperialism — inside a Brooklyn jail in New York State draws urgent attention to […]

It’s no secret that Trump’s attack on immigrants threatens all workers and their right to organize for better working conditions. Bob Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, said Border Patrol agents questioned striking […]

Unions and community organizations demonstrated at the Port of Oakland on Dec. 18 as part of an ongoing campaign to demand an embargo on the shipment of weapons to Israel from both the city’s sea […]

Frackville, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9 — Mumia says it’s about love. What else could have given 17 people the passion to hike 103 miles for 12 days across Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia to the Mahanoy prison in […]