Nearly a week ago, hundreds of activists with the youth-led Sunrise Movement marched through the streets of Washington, D.C. with a message: take the climate crisis seriously! At one point barricading White House entrances, activists used their bodies and their voices...
(this is a repost; originally written in 2021; slightly edited) 87 years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. The strike began in May 1934, during the Great Depression. At the time, the conditions that existed were brutal. Every day,...
On the Fourth of July, the politicians and the corporate media will celebrate their version of the past. It will again be marked by calls for patriotism, and it will be used to justify U.S. policies of domination around the globe — at least that’s how those in...
Before the 1960s, California Farmworkers had no legal right to organize. But their determined struggles beginning in the mid ‘60s and the early ‘70s forced the growers and the State of California to recognize their union. Farmworkers were often housed on land...
June 28, 2021, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French More than 65% abstained in the second round of regional elections in France. Once again, the pundits commented above all on the rate of abstention. After...
