On Thursday, February 22, teachers in two of West Virginia’s fifty-five counties walked out. By Monday, March 1, schools shut down state-wide. Thousands of teachers and staff rallied in Charleston demanding raises and protesting increases in healthcare premiums. Eight days …
The Trump administration’s budget for 2019 is a declaration of war on poor and working people all over the world and in the U.S. The $4.4 trillion budget proposes a combination of further increases in military spending, more tax cuts …
In early April 1968, fifty years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike. The workers – almost all of them African American – had been on strike since February 12, demanding …
The Gun Trace Task Force of the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) was a special unit organized officially to get guns off the streets and prevent violence. But eight of the nine members of the Task Force were charged with …
Black Panther is a big budget superhero film written and directed by Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan. Black Panther is the story of the superhero king of Wakanda, an isolated but wealthy African nation that hides its existence. …
Today millions of people across this country have joined together to say “No more violence in our schools.” and “No more violence in our communities.” We are all here because students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, …
Join us at our next Speak Out Now Forum: The Bay Area: For The 1% or for Us? For decades the San Francisco Bay Area was a home for working class families, radicals, musicians, poets and artists of all sorts. …
Archive That, Comrade! The Legacy of 1968 and the Politics of Remembrance A Talk by Phil Cohen How is the past remembered? How do archives and commemorations of historical events rewrite history? How is historical revisionism and false memory used …
Join us for a March and Rally to Say: NO! To U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad! Sunday, April 15th 11AM-12:30PM RALLY Lake Merritt Amphitheater – 12th st. & 4th Ave (at 12:30pm there is a march to Oscar Grant …
We are right to question the violence of our society, where mass shooting and brutality have become accepted as normal. The system of capitalism values human life and the planet only as resources to be exploited and profited from, creating …
With the arrogance of an ex-business banker, Macron has led attack after attack against workers since his election. He now attacks railway workers head-on, hoping to break their fighting spirit and demoralise the whole working class, like Thatcher did with …
There were a lot of retirees out on March 15th. Tens of thousands of them in the country took to the streets, to protest against decreased pensions, together with retirement home employees. They have been called “privileged” persons by Macron, …
In response to the brutal murders of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, the whole community responded in shock and outrage. The students took the lead, saying that they were going to make sure that such a …
download an illustrated pdf of this pamphlet Table of Contents Map of the Russian Empire in 1917 The Russian Revolution of 1917: The Beginning of the Liberation of Humanity The Bolshevik Party – A Party of the Revolutionary Working Class Soviets: …
Join us for a Speak Out Now Forum in Baltimore, MD The #MeToo movement has made it clear: sexual violence in our society is widespread. As more and more women have shared their stories, they have exposed a sick …
.pdf flyer download Please join us at both March For Our Lives rallies in the Bay Area. We will be attending rallies in Oakland and San Francisco. Look for our Speak Out Now booth and table, and march with us …
Presentation by Peter Shapiro Labor activist and author of the book “Song of the Stubborn One Thousand” Followed by discussion Thirty years ago, Watsonville, California was the “frozen food capital of the world.” In September 1985, 1000 mostly Mexican women …
Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida returned to school two weeks after a 19-year old former-student gunned down 17 people there. Most of the students said they were ready to return, but promised they would not …
Voting for the Democrats is a Dead End! Supreme Court: Ready to Undermine Unions Baltimore Schools: Unfit for Our Children! NY/NJ Transit: A Real Trainwreck! Nabi Saleh, Palestine – An Example of Defiance Download March 2018 SON [11×17.pdf 4mb]
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