It should come as no surprise to the knowledgeable observer that the current state of international affairs is, to put it mildly, a mess. In recent weeks, we have seen how the leadership of the United...

DALLAS—The Republicans’ two-day “Midterm convention” opened in Dallas Sept. 9 and featured a promise by Trump, made after two-thirds of the audience had already left the arena, that he would send ever...

NEW YORK—After 37 years, six U.S. presidents and four union presidents, U.S. government oversight over the Teamsters has come to an end.  But the changes in the union’s structure, including making ele...

Upon learning of the landslide electoral triumph of a fascist political party in a province that was once part of socialist Germany, these foreboding words immediately came to mind: “The womb is ferti...

At first glance, Massachusetts primaries seemed to favor incumbents, but a closer look shows deep-set divisions in the voter base and campaign strategies from challengers that failed to meet the histo...

CHICAGO—Save one life, and you're a hero. Save a hundred, and you're “just” a nurse. That sentiment was on full display Thursday, Sept. 3, when nurses at three Prime Healthcare hospitals—Saint Mary of...

The U.S. government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence.

In 2015, 196 nations came together to sign the Paris Agreement in order to combat the growing threat of climate change. The goal was set to prevent the Earth from exceeding a global warming limit of 1...

SEIXAL, Portugal—Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies joined the 50th anniversary of the Avante! Festival (Festa do Avante!) from Sept. 4 to 6 in Seixal, Portugal, a s...

3.5% is a data point that has become popular among people who want to build a movement to defeat authoritarianism and reconstruct democracy in the United States.

On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan established a military alliance that many experts are saying could reshape power across West and South Asia.

WASHINGTON—The nation’s unemployment rate stayed at 4.1% in August, while the number of jobless people rose by 115,000 to 7.031 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.  The private sector cl...

NEW YORK—Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked Labor Day, Sept. 7, by announcing the creation of the Mayor's Office of Worker Power (MOWP). The new office is the first such body created anywhere in the nation.

“The Economic Effects of the Revolution” is the 15th and final chapter of Herbert Aptheker’s book “The American Revolution, 1763-1783”.

In the city of Graz, Austria, a city of about 300,000 people, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) has been the dominant force in local government since the 1990s.

WASHINGTON—Speakers and marchers at the anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous March on Washington linked voting rights and economic justice, just as he did back on Aug. 28, 1963...

PHILADELPHIA—The University of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the graduate student workers’ union in an effort to exclude hundreds of first- and second-year students from the bargaining unit.

Registered nurses, patients, and community allies mobilized in eight cities across the country on Thursday demanding hospitals and elected officials cut ties with the big tech firm Palantir.

WASHINGTON—Shades of Joe McCarthy. Shades of J. Edgar Hoover. The Trump administration is singling out left-leaning political groups nationwide for organized persecution and repression, and more than ...

Mickey and the Teamsters is a fascinating look at the labour politics behind Disney World’s costumed character performers  (the actors playing Mickey, Cinderella, and Goofy) who joined the Teamsters L...

If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the events unfolding in the small Palestinian town of Qusra, south of Nablus. The st...

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in collaboration with the AFL-CIO, has launched a nationwide campaign calling on teachers, parents, and communities to boycott Target for back-to-school shop...

A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...

CHICAGO —If there’s one description that applies to Teamsters locals in the union town of Chicago and its suburbs, it’s that there’s always activism occurring.

A single union local in California allowed its hall to be used for a public meeting where U.S. policy toward Cuba was discussed this past spring. That shouldn’t have been a big deal, but in the eyes o...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon won an upset victory over Alexander Vindman in the Aug. 18 U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Florida.

Corporate Democrats have found their enemy, and it isn’t Trump. It’s the socialists in their own party. Third Way, the corporate-funded think tank that has spent three decades policing the Democratic ...

CHICAGO—In his valedictory address to the AFSCME convention in Chicago this week, union President Lee Saunders, who is retiring after 14 years in the top job, urged its delegates to “keep the pressure...

Our friend Robert P. Jones has been thinking about “future regret” as a moral sentiment worth paying attention to in the midst of our present authoritarian crisis.

In January 2025, the Trump administration effectively ended the United States Agency for International Development by freezing all foreign aid. By July, USAID was officially closed and absorbed into t...

FORT WORTH, Texas—On the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 11, crowds of Fort Worth residents gathered at City Hall for a city council meeting to let lawmakers know their opinions on data centers.

The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing more than 105 million workers across hundreds of affiliated unions worldwide, called for an annual International Action Day of Trade Unions for Peace...

TEL AVIV—Israeli authorities have torn down or forced the demolition of dozens of Palestinian-owned buildings across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in recent weeks, part of a year that has ...

It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington. The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases t...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—As the political primary season winds down, the battles between some in the so-called Democratic Party establishment who see the left as a threat to their control and progressives wh...

Presentation to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties on August 10, 2026, in Havana, Cuba by Anita Waters, Organizational Secretary, Communist Party USA. Dear Comrades. I br...

YouTube video by Communist Party USA

President Abelardo de la Espriella took office on Aug. 7, in the process all but completing Latin America’s return to right-wing control. Political arrangements in Colombia are now in sync with the U....