-
The Jena 6 case: Jim Crow still lives in Louisiana
In front of a white judge and an all-white jury in Jena, La., 17-year-old Mychal Bell was convicted of aggravated…
Read More » -
Miami activists take action against Burger King
The first of summer actions against Burger King took place in South Florida on July 11. The aim is to…
Read More » -
Japanese minister excuses U.S. nuclear attack
Japan’s defense minister, Fumio Kyuma, recently stated that the U.S. nuclear attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 were an…
Read More » -
FARC negotiator unjustly convicted in U.S. court
The U.S. war on the Colombian revolutionary movement took a serious turn on July 9 when a Washington, D.C., federal…
Read More » -
A word from globalization’s ‘have-nots’
Proponents of globalization claim it provides answers to many of the world’s economic problems. But while transnational corporate giants rake…
Read More » -
Sison off EU terror list, Beltran released
The Filipino left has won two important legal victories. First, a European Union court ruling removed Prof. José Maria Sison…
Read More » -
Live Earth and global warming ‘hypocrisy’
On July 7, millions of people around the world watched or listened to or streamed some or all of the…
Read More » -
Genarlow Wilson: victim of the racist ‘justice’ system
The case of Genarlow Wilson shines a light on the racism still pervasive in the U.S. "justice" system today. Wilson…
Read More » -
Auto Workers face corporate attack
The outlook for auto industry workers in the United States is not good. In the last three years, the United…
Read More » -
Nuclear spill in Tennessee: a state secret
The U.S. government and a private corporation colluded to keep secret a March 2006 toxic spill of enriched uranium. The…
Read More » -
Army comes up short on recruits
The U.S. Army missed its recruiting goal by more than 1,000 people in June. This is the second straight month…
Read More » -
Palestine forum sheds light on Gaza
On July 7, the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and the Palestinian American Women's Association…
Read More » -
Immigrant soldiers dying for citizenship
On July 4, 325 immigrant soldiers took the oath of citizenship in Iraq. As of May, 1,186 soldiers have become…
Read More » -
San Francisco 8 legal update
On June 21 in San Francisco, a court hearing was held in the case of the "San Francisco Eight." The…
Read More » -
La crisis de la guerra en Irak crece para la clase dominante
Mientras se profundiza la crisis en Irak, varios senadores republicanos se han unido con líderes del Partido Demócrata llamando por…
Read More » -
Audio: Jahi Rose on the Brooklyn struggle against police abuse
Click here to listen to an audio recording of a speech by Jahi Rose, a community activist in Brooklyn. Rose…
Read More » -
Rachel Corrie’s parents fight Caterpillar in court
The writer attended the July 9 oral arguments in the Corrie case against Caterpillar. On July 9, the 9th Circuit…
Read More » -
Renewing the struggle for immigrant rights
After the defeat of the most recent immigration reform bill in the Senate, PSLweb.org’s Carlos Alvarez interviewed Juan José Gutiérrez,…
Read More » -
Pardon me Scooter, shouldn’t you be in jail?
The Bush White House announced in early July its decision to commute the jail sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former…
Read More » -
Stop the execution of Troy Davis, an innocent man
"The execution of an innocent man is not unconstitutional," said attorney Jason Ewart, attorney for Georgia death row inmate Troy…
Read More »