The Sixth Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference opened here onDec. 4 with an evening of solidarity with the Cuban Five, defenders of Cuba whoare serving long sentences in U.S. jails. The weekend conference, which brought together union militants and socialjustice activists

BOLIVIA: Morales triumphs | URUGUAY | VENEZUELA: Controlling the banks | HONDURAS: Human rights abused | ALBA meets in Havana

Inside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Dec. 3, a Goldman Sachs investors'conference was presenting Roger Agnelli, CEO of the giant mining transnationalVale SA, with a "Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Citizenship" award.Outside, miners from several countries were holding a noisy and militantdemonstration

While a group of workers held an 18-day occupation at Vestas wind turbine planton Great Britain's Isle of Wight in July, other Vestas workers and theirsupporters erected an encampment outside the plant. On Nov. 27 this tentcommunity — which after

The United States is one of a small number of countries that allow the sale ofhuman blood plasma for profits. Across the country, countless workers areselling the yellowy substance found in their blood to the pharmaceutical giantsof Wall Street.

Excerpts from a talk by Martha Grevatt of Cleveland at the WWPNational Conference, Nov. 14.

Support arrived quickly for long-time Baltimore community activists SharonBlack-Ceci and Steven Ceci, who were arrested and dragged from their home bycops on Dec. 9. As of Dec. 14 more than 1,000 people had sent in messages orsigned a petition demanding

On Dec. 9, supporters of political journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal marked the 28thyear of his incarceration on Pennsylvania's death row, more determinedthan ever to fight for his exoneration.

Workers World Party and Fight Imperialism, Stand Together(FIST) held a public forum Dec. 11 at the Solidarity Center in a tributeto martyred Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton.

At a national assembly of U.S. Labor Against the War held in Chicago Dec. 4-6,a resolution was passed unanimously that called for "an immediate end tothe wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and military attacks inPakistan." The resolution also

In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — withmore than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 headsof state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it isimportant to ask: How is it possible

African countries at the COP-15 climate change summit in Copenhagen led awalkout for several hours on Dec. 14 to protest the efforts of the UnitedStates, Britain and other imperialist countries and their allies to sidestepresponsibility for the worsening impact of

After a barrage of propaganda emanating from Washington and the big businessmedia, most people in the U.S. have been led to believe that any failure toreach an agreement at the Copenhagen summit on climate change will beChina's fault. Nothing could

It was a great feeling to be one of the 100,000 people from all corners of theworld at the Palace Square in front of the Danish Parliament on Dec. 12, thefifth day of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. It was

It was an historic moment: a Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that was anapology for an imperialist war of occupation. More than that, it preemptivelylaid out the justification for U.S. imperialist wars.

Washington ya ha comenzado a enviar más tropas para ocupar aAfganistán luego del discurso del Presidente Barack Obama el 1 dediciembre en West Point. En Afganistán como en Irak, la ocupación porEstados Unidos traerá la muerte de más afganos civiles

Over 100 University of Massachusetts students and community supporters came outon Dec. 1 to protest the appearance near the UMass campus of the whitesupremacist, anti-gay, anti-Semitic Fred Phelps and members of his WestboroChurch in Kansas.

On the evening of Nov. 30, scores of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender andqueer activists packed Cleveland City Council chambers in anticipation of atremendous victory for the transgender community. That night the Councilrevised the city charter to prohibit discrimination based on

An overflow crowd heard Larry Holmes, keynote speaker at Springfield, Mass., TechnicalCommunity College's 5th annual Rosa Parks Day observance on Dec. 1.