01/27/2024
Protect and Empower Organized Labor from Corporations' Attacks!
More Americans are recognizing the critical role of unions in advancing workers’ rights and how the power of collective bargaining ensures that the economy works for everyone. Thanks to organized labor, UPS workers won wage increases and an end to forced overtime and the tiered pay system this yea...
01/25/2024
NYC Labor Forum on Reproductive Justice
Reproductive justice is labor’s FIGHT and now is the time for labor to turn up the heat! Women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people are the spark plugs in today’s labor upsurges. And unions are in the most powerful position to mobilize the numbers needed to win the battle for basic rights. On Sat...
01/23/2024
Ukrainian communist youth leaders remain defiant after almost 700 days in prison
Since March 6, 2022, Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich have been in detention in Ukraine, reportedly experiencing regular beatings and torture. The brothers are leaders of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), which has been outlawed since 2014 by the government in Ukraine.
01/23/2024
Zelensky government bans Communist Party of Ukraine, seizes assets
The Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) was permanently banned Tuesday after a Lviv court ruling which turned over all its assets, including party buildings and funds, to the state.
01/18/2024
Niemöller’s famous words ring out to us
First, they came for the Communists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the Trade Unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Trade Unionist, Then they came for th...
01/18/2024
Israeli youth resist military conscription, oppose Gaza destruction
There has been an increase in the number of Israeli youth who are refusing to enlist in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). When an Israeli citizen turns 18, they are obligated to enlist, but there are exceptions: Ultra-Orthodox Jews, for example, can avoid service if they are fully committed to study...
01/18/2024
The terror returns: Cuba discloses latest attacks by the U.S.
When the U.S. government launched its so-called “Global War on Terror” after the al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S.-led terror attacks against Cuba had already been ongoing for over 40 years.
01/18/2024
British Labour Party will only recognize Palestinian state after Israel gives permission
LONDON—The British Labour Party will recognize a Palestinian state when it gets permission from Israel to do so, party leader Sir Keir Starmer has announced in his latest abandonment of progressive international commitments.
01/18/2024
Biden’s Acting Labor Secretary Su critiques corporate greed
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —It’s a presidential election year, and that means Cabinet secretaries often deviate from official duties to laud their presidential bosses, while the secretaries speak out on the hustings.
01/18/2024
Senate kills Sanders demand for accountability on U.S. military aid to Israel
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate is apparently tone-deaf to the rising popular demand for ending U.S. military aid to the Jewish state due to its massive bombing and other attacks on the people of Gaza. The deafness appeared January 16 when senators defeated a resolution by Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt.
01/16/2024
Cuba supports South Africa
Israel continues to act with total impunity because it has the complicit protection of the United States, which repeatedly obstructs and vetoes the action of the Security Council, undermining peace, security and stability in the Middle East and globally
01/16/2024
Communists to challenge Putin, running against capitalism but not the Ukraine war
MOSCOW—Russia’s national elections commission on Tuesday registered Nikolai Kharitonov, candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, to challenge President Vladimir Putin in the March election. Kharitonov, 75, joins two other candidates who were approved to run last week.