It is being billed as the largest immigration protest since the mass demonstrations of 2006. In immigrant neighborhoods nationwide the expectation ahead of Sunday’s march in Washington, D.C., was palpable. In New York, immigrants gathered days before the protest to paint signs with messages like “Obama, keep your promise.” Popular... » read this article

When it comes to our nation’s military affairs, ignorance is not bliss.  What’s remarkable then, given the permanent state of war in which we find ourselves, is how many Americans seem content not to know. There are many reasons for this state of affairs.  Our civilian leaders encourage us to... » read this article

Editor's Note: As time passes in the wake of Haiti's historic earthquake, news of the devastation fades from the pages and television screens of the corporate media and from the minds of their viewers. Exceptions include occasional reports that depict U.S. aid organisations bringing solutions to the capitalist-induced, deeply rooted... » read this article

Dennis Kucinich explains the reasoning and thought process that led him to agree to vote on the health care bill as it is. Each generation has had to take up the question of how to provide for the health of the people of our nation. And each generation has grappled... » read this article

Last week, Mexico's Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare Javier Lozano Alarcon announced a series of legislative proposals which, if approved, would constitute a major blow against Mexican workers and especially embattled independent unions. The measures presented to a meeting of the Business Coordinating Council will be included in a... » read this article

18 March 2010 The suicide of a Georgian refugee in a Hamburg deportation centre graphically expresses the contempt for human life on the part of the city’s Senate—a coalition of the free-market Free Democratic Party and the Greens. David M., a citizen from Georgia, hanged himself in his cell on... » read this article

This coming Sunday, March 21, thousands of immigrants and their allies from unions, community and faith based organizations will converge on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. to call for the passage of comprehensive immigration reform. A progressive immigration reform that protects the rights of both immigrant and U.S. born... » read this article

ROBERT FERGUSON'S nearly eight-year prison sentence in early March for shoplifting a bag of shredded cheese from a California convenience store made headlines around the world. How could such a petty crime trigger such a lengthy sentence? Whether from a moral or public policy point of view, the outcome seemed... » read this article

MONTREAL—Algonquin hip-hop artist Samian raps about the realities of life on First Nations reserves in Quebec. With a growing following on reserves and in Quebec's cities, he's also struck a chord with hip-hop communities everywhere. Exploding the classic political binary of Quebec's two solitudes, Samian raps about Indigenous people and... » read this article

To be a Dongria Kondh is to live in the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa state, India - they do not live anywhere else. Yet Vedanta Resources is determined to mine their sacred mountain's rich seam of bauxite (aluminium ore). The Dongria farm the hill slopes, grow crops in among the... » read this article

Editor's Note: We received the following introduction and open letter to the Massachusetts Attorney General from a good friend and long time activist in Boston, Noah Cohen. - LMB On Friday, March 12, members of the Tarek Mehanna Support Committee attempted for the second time to meet with a representative of... » read this article

Why is Barack Obama getting away with constitutional outrages that would have caused an outburst of protest if George Bush committed them, asks Eamonn McCann. GEORGE BUSH was denounced around the world for allowing his intelligence agencies to install wiretaps without warrants from the courts. But Barack Obama authorizes the... » read this article

After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers' commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican... » read this article

The suggestion by Mr. Rasmussen that civilian organizations such as MSF should in any way collaborate, or provide 'soft power' to the NATO forces, endangers this understanding and makes the hospitals, patients and staff more likely to be targeted by the opposition forces. International medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières... » read this article

Hundreds of students rallied here at the Federal Plaza Wednesday in a "National Coming Out of the Shadows Day" for comprehensive immigration reform. The rally was followed by 1,000 people marching throughout the streets of Chicago chanting, "No papers, no fears, immigrants are marching here!" Undocumented and unafraid, youth at... » read this article

13 March 2010 The Obama administration is spearheading an unprecedented assault on public education in the US. The White House and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are promoting a nationwide wave of school closures, teacher and staff layoffs, attacks on teachers’ wages and conditions, and an expansion of privately run charter... » read this article

Right now communities in Latin America, as around the world, are suffering a new kind of invasion of their territories. These invaders are not the descendants of the European conquistadores, who appropriated land, gathered slaves and plundered their colonial domains. Nor are they the big finqueros (estate owners) of the... » read this article

"... A Bangladeshi garment worker received only 22 US cents per hour, compared to 33 cents in Cambodia, 38 cents in Vietnam, 37 cents in Pakistan, 43 cents in Sri Lanka, 44 cents in Indonesia, 51 cents in India, 86 cents in China, $1.07 in the Philippines and $1.18 in... » read this article

4 March 2010 President Obama’s public support for the mass firing of teachers at a Rhode Island high school is a declaration of war on all teachers and on the working class as a whole. No US president has so openly supported the mass victimization of workers since Ronald Reagan... » read this article

In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was happening in the... » read this article