Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy. But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The… Read More ›
Workers Struggle
News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
Photoshopping away police torture in Greece
By Leonidas Oikonomakis Greek police may vainly try to photoshop away the torture of four alleged bank robbers, but they cannot gloss over the radicalization of Greek youth. The story is as follows. On February 1st 2013, an attempted… Read More ›
Canadian police face multiple ‘sexual abuse’ accusations from aboriginal women – HRW
Photographs of a 17-year old girl’s injuries after a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police repeatedly punched herwhile she was handcuffed in British Columbia in 2011.(Photo from hrw.org) Canada’s national police force stands accused of raping and sexually… Read More ›
Leave it to the Market?
For more than twenty years now, the “free market” has been the rallying cry of American politics. Conservatives sing its praises while occasionally betraying it when it suits their constituency, liberals won’t criticize it but claim that it needs to… Read More ›
Rod Richardson: the mystery of the protester who was not who he claimed
Paul Lewis and Rob Evans The mother of the real Rod Richardson, who died at two days old, fears an officer assumed his identity to pose as an activist Rod Richardson celebrated his 29th birthday in style on 5 January 2002. After… Read More ›
Native American Shuts Down Anti-Illegal Immigrant Protest: ‘Y’all Are All Illegal!’
By Abena Agyeman-Fisher At a Tucson, Ariz., anti-illegal immigrant rally, a group of self-righteous protesters were literally put on mute after a Native American decided to drop some knowledge on who the real “illegals” are. Pushing a toddler in a stroller,… Read More ›
Teargas as thousands protest top opposition leader assassination in Tunisia (PHOTOS)
Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has been shot dead outside his home, prompting thousands of Tunisians to protest in the capital and across the country, torching ruling party offices in several towns and chanting “the government should fall.” (FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES)… Read More ›
Israel must remove all Jewish settlers from occupied West Bank – UN inquiry
Jewish settlers hold Israeli flags near the West Bank city. (Reuters / Ronen Zvulun) A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements… Read More ›
Profiting off hunger: Wall Street makes big gains over food price spikes
AFP Photo / Tony Karuba Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing… Read More ›
Stacey Campfield, Tennessee GOP Lawmaker, Wants To Tie Welfare Benefits To Children’s Grades
By Nick Wing Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield (R) introduced a bill this week seeking to make welfare benefits contingent upon the grades of a would-be recipient’s children. Campfield’s legislation, filed Thursday, would “require the reduction of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families… Read More ›
World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is… Read More ›
Photos of January 19th International Solidarity Protests With Greece Against the Fascist Golden Dawn
International NEW! A list of the demos and actions organised internationally for 19Jan: London Glasgow Edimburgh Leeds Bristol Cork Dublin Derry Barcelona Ossona Manresa La Garriga Bilbao Lyon Brussels Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Tampere Warsow Vilnious Moscow Chicago New York… Read More ›
APL Speech from 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protest against Golden Dawn in Chicago
Greetings fellow anti-fascists and comrades. Welcome to this solidarity action with immigrant rights groups and anti-fascists in Athens, across Greece and around the world. We have a few speakers today who will talk about Greece’s critical struggle against the rising… Read More ›
Speech & Photos from 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protest in Chicago against Golden Dawn
The following statement was read aloud by the comrades of the No Golden Dawn in Chicago Working Group in front of the Greek consulate NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com | http://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | @NoGoldenDawnChi | 312-446-4939 January 19, 2013 The Honorable Ioanna Efthymiadou Consul General in… Read More ›
A Call for International Solidarity for the 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protests against Golden Dawn
Chicago/Greece Anti-Fascist Working Group Press Contact: Chris Geovanis, chrisgeovanis@gmail.com, NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com, 312-446-4939 https://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | http://on.fb.me/Xck0Nf | @NoGoldenDawnChi | #antifa19jan #Greece January 19, 2012 Greetings from Chicago, comrades. We write as workers, immigrants, artists and activists from a host of backgrounds with one message… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 