Newest Activism

• Staff: Richland, Washington protesters demand ‘No kids in cages’

  On Feb. 27 more than 50 protesters gathered in Richland, Washington to demand that Pres. Joe Biden close the ICE concentration camps, release the detained children and abolish ICE.
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  Fitz: From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand

  Two stories about the consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy
• Kim: Asian American Communities Organize Against Rise in Hate Crimes

  More Policing Is Not the Answer
• Win: A revolution in the making is taking place in Myanmar

  Resistance to last month's military coup is doing away with the country's long-standing divisions of ethnicity, religion, domicile and occupation
• Chediac: 7 lies Amazon tells about the union

  On average, union workers earn 27 percent more than nonunion workers
• Ramirez: Tyson Poultry Workers Say Their Bosses Have No Regard for Their Lives

  Interview with a worker at a Tyson poultry plant in Arkansas about his fear of getting sick, what Tyson thinks of its workers, and how long it's been since he received any hazard pay.
• Raut: Pushing the tempo at Mumbai’s farm sit-in

  At Mumbai's Azad Maidan, at a farmers' protest in late January, dhumsi and tarpa players from Adivasi communities in Maharashtra's Dahanu taluka opposed the new farm laws through song and dance
• Lindahl: Amazon union struggle takes hold in Southern state with radical labor history

  The historic campaign, if successful, could spark a wave of unionization around the country
• Lin: Myanmar Workers and Unions on the Front Lines in Fight Against Coup

  Workers in Myanmar have demonstrated that direct actions are powerful and they work
• Wilson: After Seven-Year Battle, Massachusetts Comcast Techs Win First Contract

  After voting to form a union seven and a half years ago, Comcast technicians at the Fairhaven, Massachusetts, garage finally have a first contract
• Lobet: California’s Small Towns Ready to Fight Big Oil Over Air Quality

  After organizing for three years, Lamont and Arvin, two rural communities in the heart of California’s oilfields have won a direct say in reducing the air pollution from oil, gas and agriculture production
• Shabazz: “We Want the Truth Uncovered”

  Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz Backs New Probe into Assassination
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  Kolhatkar: Black Lives Still Don’t Matter in America

  A welcome change in national leadership in the U.S. means little for the scourge of racism infecting the nation—unless words are matched by action.
• Saunders: To Honor Black History, Fund Our Front-Line Heroes

  Over the last year, some 1.3 million public service jobs, many of them held by African Americans — including nurses, teachers, EMTs and sanitation workers — have evaporated because of holes the pandemic blew open in state and local budgets
• Gorky: McDonald’s spies on employees organizing for a living wage

  New reports show that McDonald’s has spied on workers “for years” in their effort to combat the Fight for $15 movement that has been struggling for a living wage for nearly a decade
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  Klein: India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech

  Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists
• Greenhouse: ‘We Deserve More’: an Amazon Warehouse’s High-Stakes Union Drive

  Workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are pushing for a union – and experts say if they triumph, it could pave the way to organizing fulfillment centers in other states
• South East Asia: Myanmar’s ‘civil disobedience movement’

  Myanmar’s activists have produced many inventive ways of protesting
• Raskin: What Lawrence Ferlinghetti Means to Me

  I will remember him as editor, publisher, poet and painter who invigorated the literary scene in San Francisco and who connected the city and its citizens to the cultures of the world
• Stender: Chicago Teachers Union’s commitment to democracy pays off

  Negotiations with the capitalist class are always incomplete. They are always a compromise. There can be no full victory save through socialist revolution