After Trump win, Democrats shift assault on political rights

From the moment Donald Trump announced he was running for president in 2016, the Democrats and their liberal allies in the media and the middle-class left have targeted him. More importantly, they’ve targeted the millions of workers Hillary Clinton famously…


Massachusetts teachers advance in strikes for higher pay, more aides

Striking teachers, supporters picket Nov. 22 in Beverly, Massachusetts, over pay, especially for paraprofessionals. Two-week-long strikes ended with tentative agreements reached Nov. 26.

BEVERLY, Mass. — Beverly and Marblehead teachers have been involved in strikes over higher pay, more and better-paid teachers’ aides, longer parental leave, and improved conditions in the schools. Public employees strikes are illegal in Massachusetts, and punitive escalating fines…



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To fight high prices, build union solidarity

Persistently high prices and growing employer attacks are increasing the difficulties workers and our families face. It’s harder today to find steady work with livable wages and meet the costs of our housing, health care, child care and other essentials.…







Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.