14+ hour, 16+ min ago   (830+ words) On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners from across the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York seized control of Cell Block D and its yard, after submitting a 27-point manifesto to the prison administration in an attempt to address the torturous conditions…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1241+ words) Fifty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 82. Mao had led the Chinese Communist Party through decades of revolutionary struggle and headed the 1949 revolution that ended landlord and capitalist rule and established the People’s…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1064+ words) Across the occupied West Bank, the scene has become grimly familiar. Armed, often masked Israeli settlers descend from hilltop settlements and outposts toward Palestinian villages, farmland and grazing areas. Palestinians have been beaten, shot, wounded and killed. Homes and vehicles…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1690+ words) For generations, the rule for Black workers in the United States has been “last hired, first fired.” In the Black city of Gary, Indiana, it’s now “the last place where the lights came back on.” For two weeks, thousands in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1716+ words) At Walmart, half the workers make less than $30,520 a year. At Dollar General, half make less than $18,876. A new Government Accountability Office study examined 11 states representing about one-fifth of the U.S. population and counted workers at large employers who received Medicaid…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (332+ words) So, while workers struggle to put food on the table and to pay a myriad of bills, the racist demagogue Donald Trump has decided that about 2 million federal workers don’t need a pay raise. Meanwhile, Trump’s personal wealth nearly doubled…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (217+ words) Dear friends and colleagues, Iran did not begin this war. The United States and Israel did. Iran is resisting an armed attack upon its territory and its people. That elementary fact must determine the timing, language, and political responsibilities of anyone…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (489+ words) While we were in Cuba, my comrade Sharon made an excellent point in an update to our comrades back home. “If conditions were like this in Baltimore City,” she wrote, referring to the water and electricity shutoffs and complete oil…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1501+ words) The U.S. war on Iran is hitting workers in the wallet — and pushing the capitalist economy toward a wider crisis. Mortgage rates are climbing too. The average 30-year mortgage has risen from 5.98% before the war to 6.65% today. Auto loan rates are…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (924+ words) For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to disguise its aggressive imperialist policy toward Cuba as a question of “national security,” diplomatic pressure or concern for “democracy”. Behind this sanitized vocabulary stands a far more brutal reality:…...