Workers in Greece have taken to the streets in their tens of thousands to defend jobs and services. Dave Stockton and Chris Newcombe report on an inspirational struggle for all workers who don’t want to pay for the bosses’ crisis.  Read more…

UN's top climate change official, Yvo de Boer

Following the failure of the U.S. to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol, which was initiated in 1997 – and  has so far been ratified by 187 nations to date – the Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP-15) this past year marked yet another low point in the struggle [...]

Beginning in 2005, the city of Chicago ignited the beginning of a privatization wave in the U.S. with the leasing of the Skyway toll highway into the hands of a foreign, private firm for $1.8 billion dollars and a contract lasting 99 years.  The next item of selling-interest was the downtown parking garages and, of [...]

Katja Teran starts the first in the series on the largely forgotten role played by revolutionary women in the communist movement with an expose on Yevgenia Bosch.  Read more…

Throughout 2009, news reports claimed that the economic crisis was slowly but surely softening; however, students at universities across the globe were drowning in the effects of the crisis, with tuition increases and budget cuts resulting in faculty and campus-worker layoffs. University students around the world did not passively sit and watch as bureaucrats increased [...]

Without a doubt, 2010 is going to be a watershed year for the state of New Jersey, and with the dreaded ‘naughts finally over, its citizens will look forward both toward a new decade and, consequently, a new leadership. The recently-elected governor, Republican Chris Christie, certainly has his work cut out for him: by [...]

Political parties and the governing elite becoming more distant from the broad masses of Ukraine, while the 2010 presidential race races to its climax.  Read more…

Thousands of workers in the alcohol and tobacco industry are in a major struggle. Marcus Hallaby reports.  Read more…

Rix Bragg looks at the recent clampdown on opposition movements in China.  Read more…

Following the aborted suicide bombing of a US flight in December 2009, the USA, claiming that the plot originated in Yemen, has been escalating its intervention into that country. US military ‘aid’ to Yemen has gone from $0 to $70M dollars, and that is set to double this year.  Read more…