On June 2, 1863, during the U.S. Civil War, two Union Army gunships (the Harriet A. Weed and the John Adams — both converted ferryboats) carrying 150 soldiers proceeded up the Combahee River, about twenty miles south of Charleston, in the heart of South Carolina’s...
On May 4 teachers in Oakland, California, went on a seven-day strike that ended with a tentative agreement. Many teachers felt that the contract was mediocre at best. The timing of the strike was very difficult for students, teachers, staff, and families, since the...
May 15, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Translated from French After months of extreme right-wing demonstrations in the city of Saint-Brévin-Les-Pins, from the National Rally (RN) Party to...
The killing on May 1 of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old unhoused Black man with a history of mental illness, on a New York City subway has sparked outcry and protests in the past couple of weeks. Neely was reportedly yelling on the subway when 24-year-old Daniel Penny, a...
This year has been one of increased mass shootings and other violent acts in many parts of the U.S. This year, as of the the beginning of May, there were 184 mass shootings, where four or more people were injured or killed. These mass murders in schools, in shopping...
