A recent shooting involving a squeegee worker and a motorist has brought up the issue of what to do about squeegee workers. Politicians for years have been unable to help, because they are unwilling to challenge the racist, profiteering system. …
Last week President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seventeen people. Much of …
Baltimore continues to persecute Keith Davis, despite numerous discrepancies in the prosecution’s case in previous trials. …
Officials in Akron, Ohio have declared a state of emergency over protests against the brutal murder of Jayland Walker by the police. The real emergency is the ongoing police brutality against Black people — not property damage! …
As the Supreme Court prepares to reverse Roe v. Wade and end federal abortion rights …
Baltimore claims that its SMART policing program will allow them to improve public safety by making the police more efficient. Actually, this only makes them more efficient at oppressing the city’s Black residents. …
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has displaced millions of people. Over the last few weeks, …
A recent report by the Department of the Interior shows the U.S.’s history of genocide against indigenous peoples. …
Two years ago on May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police. If …
Payton Gendron, an 18 year-old white man from a small town in New York, armed …
On May 13, 1985, flames and ashes rose to the sky as members of the …
New data from the non-profit organization Mapping Police Violence shows that police officers in the United States have continued …
Refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine are facing racism at the border. …
Tesla was recently sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) for racial discrimination …
Ahmaud Arbery’s killers were found guilty of hate crimes, in a victory for the social movement that demanded “Black Lives Matter.” …
Economic inequalities are still distributed by race today. …
Thousands of people in Brazil protested against the murder of Moise Kabagambe, a Congolese immigrant. …
Brian Flores has made public the racist hiring practices of the NFL. …
Black History Month is a reminder to look to the past and to make our own history. …
“Stop the Steal!” That’s what Trump has said since he lost the 2020 presidential election …
While the act of Rosa Parks sparked mass action, the collective decision of thousands first to participate in and then to continue the boycott led to victory. …
A majority white jury in Georgia found three white men guilty of the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man. …
The system creates the conditions that allow violent racist police to kill people at traffic stops. …
Since 2018, the city of Benton Harbor, Michigan has tested high for dangerous concentrations of lead within the water system. …
This toxic culture of the power brokers in the NFL is a disgusting microcosm of the racism, sexism, and homophobia that is pervasive in our society! …
John Brown and his followers stand as an example of how working people of different skin colors and backgrounds can join together and take action against the oppressing ruling classes. For that reason, we recognize John Brown’s raid as part of the long struggle to end oppression and create a just and equal world for all people. …
The waves of migrants coming to the U.S. southern border is a sign that capitalism is not working for people. throughout the world. And Democratic and Republican politicians continue to carry out the same policies at the border. Both parties represent the same economic system, which benefits from racism deeply entrenched in American society and in our world, dividing working people by race and nationality while our real enemies are the bosses who exploit us all. …
September 9, 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. …
Activists fought against a pipeline project in Tennessee and won: the Byhalia Connection Pipeline has been cancelled. …
Today we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery …
Race defines much of our lives. It says who we are to a cop, a …
Black people were not given freedom from slavery – they had to fight for it. …
This brutal racist history cannot be forgotten. This capitalist system has proven over and over that it will never deliver justice, especially for Black people. …
Today, May 25, is the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. It’s a name …
On May 19, we celebrate the birthday of Malcolm X. …
In the aftermath of the police killing of Daunte Wright, the Democrats are promoting illusions in the fundamental role of the police. …
Racist attacks on voting rights need to be opposed. …
The day before George Floyd’s murderer was convicted, the police murdered Mario Gonzalez. …
Demonstrations in Oakland Today! Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States. In …
Debate about whether police were justified in killing Ma’Khia Bryant doesn’t address the question of the role of police and the purpose of their violence. …
The conviction of Chauvin does not change the oppressive role of the police. We still need a social order that is not based on inequality. …
Regardless of the result of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the racist capitalist system will continue until it is overthrown. …
The Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere are engaged in a thinly-disguised attempt to prevent Black people from voting. Although voting is insufficient to solve our problems, we must oppose this racist attack on our civil rights. …
Yet another Black man has been unjustly killed by the cops. …
The struggles against capitalism and racism are linked, and Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this. …
The shooting in Atlanta is part of a long history of anti-Asian racism in the United States. …
It is not surprising that in a racist society, there is a racial disparity in vaccination rates. …
After a year of Trump blaming COVID-19 on China, it is not surprising to see a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. …
Celebrating the life of Robert Williams, fighter for Black rights. …
No worker of any race or gender should have their livelihood subjected to pleasing the whims of individual clients. This racist legacy should be abolished, and living wages should be guaranteed for all labor. …
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