ROSLYN, Wash.—Communist Party USA members gathered here from every corner of the Evergreen State on October 3 and 4 and vowed to turn out votes in the midterm elections to defeat I-645, a right-wing b...

Now here’s an idea that should really get the attention of the nation’s cavalcade of corporate crooks: If your company breaks federal, state, or local wage and hour laws—or anti-discrimination laws—or...

This book is worth a look, and a good place to start, but it’s also in danger of being done for deceptive packaging. Joseph Daher traces the history of Palestine within a context of Zionism and Middle...

PARIS—With millions of students in the streets demanding a future for working-class youth, Fabien Roussel is proposing a pact to change the direction of French education.

ATLANTA—These were the chants of Atlanta University Center (AUC) students as they marched through the school campus on Thursday night. It was also the findings of the Mississippi State Medical Examine...

WESTLAND, Mich.—Starbucks workers here have voted to unionize with Starbucks Workers United (SBWU), making their store the 20th in Michigan to do so.

Speaking to supporters Sunday night, Brazilian Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro—son of the country’s imprisoned former head of state, Jair Bolsonaro—declared the “end of the era” of President Luiz Inácio da Silv...

WASHINGTON—“God made Trump.” That campaign TV ad, released with two others on September 23, has produced a bipartisan, bicameral uproar in and out of D.C., especially since its last line, in very smal...

After you attend the Left Coast Forum this weekend in L.A., don’t miss Everybody to Kenmure Street. Directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, the son of a Chilean exile, this is a stand-up-and-cheer documenta...

The new short documentary Call Me Micky arrives at a perilous time for the LGBTQ community. Every month there seems to be a new piece of legislation that aims to delegitimize the existence of those wh...

Affordability is getting worse, especially if you have to drive to work or anywhere else. By late September, the total cost of the higher gas and diesel prices triggered by President Donald Trump’s wa...

When I first saw footage of Gaza doctor Munir al-Bursh and his family kneeling beside the white-shrouded body of his son, surrounded by mourners, I thought it was an old video. It was not. My conclusi...

WASHINGTON—In yet another plank in a “platform” they’re taking to the voters before the Nov. 3 election, House Democrats unveiled an 84-page agenda of health care improvements—with the addition of vis...

Brazilians go to the polls this weekend in what will be a crucial election for the country and the wider region. The contest pits the incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against the far-righ...

The Trump administration’s attack on its domestic critics reached its biggest stage yet at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22. During his remarks before delegates from around the world, P...

Saudi Arabia has initiated a bombing campaign over Yemen. The move follows a massive offensive by the North Yemeni Ansarallah movement, popularly known as the Houthis.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Two Steelworkers locals and the BlueGreen Alliance scored a win in California when the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board rejected oil refiners’ looser safety pl...

In an election held Sept. 24, registered nurses at Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston, Maine, voted overwhelmingly to join Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Commit...

CHICAGO—With early voting already underway and the Trump administration escalating its attack on voting rights, the May Day Strong coalition sent letters Tuesday to the offices of JPMorgan Chase, Amaz...

It is 1890. While Britain is aggressively expanding its global empire, its domestic industries are increasingly dominated by mechanized production and growing concentration of capital, and the industr...

WASHINGTON—If you’re a student of color, an LGBTQ student, or a college athlete—especially a Black athlete—September 28 was a bad day for your rights, and a great day for wealthy white people who bene...

SAN FRANCISCO—In a big union win in GOP President Donald Trump’s continuing war against his federal workforce, the workers’ unions beat him in a settlement agreement in federal court—and one the U.S. ...

CHICAGO—For the past eight quarters (two years), the Palestinian Community Network has organized a protest at the Illinois State Board of Investment (ISBI) meeting. Their demand? That the board stop i...

“You strangle us for 40 years and then criticize us for the way we breathe.” That was the late Fidel Castro’s response to the criticism of Cuba, now revived by the Trump administration, of Cuba as a f...

Dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean are preparing for a coordinated strike action on Oct. 30, marking the second International Day of Action of Dockworkers, initiated by the World Federati...

NEW YORK—Faced with rising costs and struggling to make ends meet, caregivers in New York’s Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP)—most of whom care for relatives—filed on September 23 ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— “Behind every migrant worker is a family. A mother waiting for a call. Children waiting to see their father,” declared Voz worker Miguel to a crowd outside a Home Depot in Portland on ...

WASHINGTON—Crystal Carey, the union-buster whom President Donald Trump named as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, plans a mass trashing of Biden-era pro-worker rules, starting wi...

ATLANTA—On Sunday evening in downtown residents gathered at the Loudermilk Conference Center for a campaign event for Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms a...

NASHVILLE—The Indigenous Peoples Coalition (IPC) on Sept. 12 commemorated 250 years of Indigenous resistance in the United States and recognized Tennessee as the birthplace of that fightback. The meet...

Just five weeks before Israelis go to the polls, the country’s Central Elections Committee voted on Sept. 23 to throw the Joint List—the main political home of Arab citizens and of Jewish-Arab opposit...

Every year, climate disasters force millions of people to leave their homes. In the aftermath of floods, fires, and droughts, they face the challenge of finding a new place to rebuild their lives.

CHICAGO—If you’re a pro-worker government official, and you want to get a corporation’s attention, do something unexpected and drastic: Take away their chances to grab your city’s dollars.

Waging an unconstitutional war on Iran. Using the presidency for personal profit. Sending troops—ICE and the Border Patrol—to U.S. cities. And sowing doubt on democracy by constantly charging election...

I have been asked many times about life in the GDR, where I was born and grew up. So, I am opening a blank page on my laptop to note some thoughts. A Brief Historical Background Following the defeat o...

Page Six Hollywood recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago, a headline like this would have seemed unthinkable.

WASHINGTON—Two of the nation’s biggest freight railroads, #1 Union Pacific and #4 Norfolk Southern--which UP plans to buy and gobble up in a monster megamerger—accounted for half of the rail industry’...

WASHINGTON —If you are an ICE agent or a billionaire, the latest Trump budget is chock-full of money for you, but if you are a federal worker who keeps the country running, there is not even a single ...

These days, it seems as though there are new data centers being proposed and built everywhere. Tech companies have long relied on these gigantic server warehouses to process massive amounts of digital...

The recent environmental disaster in Nepal points to a larger problem than flood management. It reveals how decades of development has reorganized an entire valley around roads, trade, and border infr...

CHICAGO —By an 85%-15% margin the voting members among 7,000 workers in Chicago’s leading hotels voted on September 22 to authorize a strike. The 46 hotels where the strike, if there is one, could occ...

CHICAGO—The International Association of Machinists, as part of their Women and Young Workers Conference in Chicago this week, staged a “Workers vs. Billionaires” march and rally.

DETROIT—“The artist must take sides,” famed singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson proclaimed in 1937. “He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

Last week, early voting in the 2026 midterms opened in Virginia, Vermont, South Dakota, and Minnesota. Voters in Illinois can start going to the polls tomorrow, September 24.