Northwest Carpenters Union Settles Strike
The contract may be signed but the fight is far from over! …
The contract may be signed but the fight is far from over! …
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! …
The past month has seen a strike wave in the United States. …
10,000 workers at John Deere went on strike against a bad contract. …
This supply chain crisis is just one more example of how dysfunctional the system of capitalism is — this system can’t even organize the basic production and distribution of goods. …
In 1956, the Hungarian masses of working people fought courageously, not for the implementation of capitalism, or a brutal rule by “socialist” or “communist” party bureaucrats, but for socialism built on their own genuine power as workers. …
“Breaking Boundaries” is a new documentary on Netflix by David Attenborough, looking into the state of the environment. …
Over 530 climate activists were arrested this past week when thousands of activists descended on Washington, D.C., to demand that the Biden administration protect indigenous communities and the environment. …
Workers at Kellogg’s are standing up to the bosses strikebreaking tactics. …
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. …
According to new research at least 85% of the global population is already confronted with the effects of climate change. (Image Credit: Tsiory Andriantsoarana) …
Even many of the intellectuals of the ruling class see the reality – their system offers no future! …
It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since …
Vaccination is an effective measure against disease, but we should not blame the unvaccinated for the government’s response to the pandemic. …
Since September 16th, carpenters in Seattle have been on strike for better pay, benefits and working conditions while voting down four previous tentative agreements. …
This system continues to tear apart the earth, brutalize Indigenous people’s lives and destroy their lands for profit. The struggle of Native peoples is a struggle against a system that threatens all life on this planet. It is all of our fight too. …
More than one month after Hurricane Ida rampaged from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, the trail of destruction and its effects on people’s lives is still visible for all to see. …
Over 700 stationary engineers have been on strike since September 18 at Kaiser Permanente Northern California facilities. …
Facebook has known about the disastrous effects they’ve had on young girls’ mental health, misinformation, and other nefarious things. They’ve known, yet done nothing. …
Tackling the issue of climate change is the most urgent and pressing issue facing all of humanity around the world. Why shouldn’t all of our contributions be brought to the table, especially those on the frontlines who face the most immediate consequences? …
On Sunday, one of the largest oil spills in California’s recent history spread onto beaches, damaging wetlands and killing wildlife. …
On October 2, in over 600 protests, thousands of people gathered across all 50 states in the U.S. to defend abortion access. …
The Pandora Papers reveal the shady things that world leaders do to protect the wealth of the wealthy. This is hardly a surprise. …
According to FBI data, the US saw the largest increase during 2020 since record-keeping began in 1960. …
Workers in France are striking against the privatization of the public transit system. …
The current budget fight in Congress is offering up a perfect opportunity for industries to call in favors and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia who owns millions in coal stocks has been tapped to re-write the climate portion of the budget bill. …
The exotic animal hunting industry is huge, particularly in rural parts of west Texas where expansive ranches exist for tourists to come hunt exotic animals in captivity. …
The 22 species recently declared extinct and predicted future extinctions are flashing red warning signs that humans and our Earth are facing an unprecedented ecological and biological catastrophe. …
Women and their allies all over the U.S. are out in the streets on October 2 to defend that right. We won this right before and to keep it we will need to fight for it again today! …
Last Friday, young people took to the streets for the first global Fridays for Future climate strike of 2021. …
Deaths from opioid overdoses have increased in the United States as people face psychological distress from the unmitigated pandemic. …
This is a repost of an article from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, published on September …
Biden’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly discussed some of the world’s most urgent problems, but presented no actual solutions. …
Politicians in Congress are playing games with the debt ceiling, but it is the working people who will suffer the consequences. …
Six weeks into the school year, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. …
In Raj Patel’s latest book and Rupa Marya’s debut title, “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the …
The problems of the for-profit healthcare system existed before COVID. COVID demonstrated just how broken the system is. …
On Wednesday President Biden announced new plans to help the global vaccination effort, saying now is not the time for “half-measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big and we need to do our part.” This is an ironic statement, considering the U.S.’s repeated lack of commitment to the measures that would be needed to end this global pandemic. …
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. …
The Republican-led recall election in California was a huge waste of time and money, and Californians were right to reject it – but that is not the same as an endorsement of Newsom. …
The giant Chinese real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt, which could have huge shockwaves around the world. …
On September 14, the number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States reached 663,913, the equivalent of 1 in 500 Americans. …
Companies that make test kits can charge what they want and get fat off this health disaster, even if it means most people won’t have access to the care they need. …
Due the extreme drought, across creeks in Northern California lay rotting carcasses of the Chinook salmon, a fish that historically would rest for weeks in these waters after completing their upstream journey. …
Ten years ago, on September 17, a movement calling itself Occupy emerged on the streets …
Even in the face of an existential crisis for humanity, the Democrats are still unable to challenge the fossil fuel interests that dominate our global economy. …
Despite the hype or the doomsday predictions, let’s not believe that Biden is really trying to take on the rich to benefit us. …
This is an article written by the Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party), a Trotskyist organization in …
After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women are not simply sitting back and watching as their rights get swept away from them. No, they are fighting back. …
The past 20 years has meant not a U.S. war against terrorists, but an endless war of U.S. terror, carried out all over the world. …
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