According to the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Unions, teachers in at least 32 cities across Iran “went to the streets once again to raise their rightful demands” May 9. The income of working and retired teachers “has not…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled May 5 to block the state of Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip. The execution had been scheduled for May 18 after the state’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 2-2 on his appeal…
Working people in East Palestine, Ohio, continue to fight to get the truth from the rail bosses and Environmental Protection Agency representatives who claim everything is safe now after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and release of highly toxic…
LOS ANGELES — Chanting “Flying Foods escucha! Estamos en la lucha!” (Flying Foods listen! We’re in the fight!), Flying Food Group workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, picketed in front of their workplace here April 28. Then they led…
Squeezed by inflation and worsening job conditions, hundreds of thousands of workers worldwide took to the streets May 1 determined to fight against the capitalist bosses’ attempts to push their growing economic crisis onto our backs. Tens of thousands of…
Since before the 2016 election, Democrats and their backers in the middle-class left have gone after Donald Trump and his supporters, using their main political police agency, the FBI, and the capitalist court system to attack them, especially the working…
NEW YORK — Some 120 people gathered here April 29 to demand an end to the bellicose annual U.S.-South Korea war games, an end to all sanctions imposed on North Korea by the U.S. government, and an end to U.S.-imposed…
Since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and controlled burn-off of five tankers that spewed 700,000 pounds of toxic vinyl chloride onto the soil, water and air in East Palestine, Ohio, in February, attention there and around the country has…
OAKLAND, Calif. — After seven months of contract negotiations nearly 3,000 public school teachers, counselors, nurses, social workers and other school employees organized by the Oakland Education Association went on strike at 80 schools here May 4. The union is…
Demands to end the death penalty and free political prisoners in Iran — including recently arrested Sunni religious teachers — were at the center of the sizable protests in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, May 5. This is at…
