High hopes, a tough loss, and the road ahead
What can we learn from the valiant effort to unionize the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama?
Standing up to dirty politics in Seattle
In Amazon's host city, a shameful attempt to pit a vaccine clinic against a rally to support Bessemer warehouse workers falls flat.
Battling racist polluters in Cancer Alley
In Louisiana, Black women lead an urgent fight against Formosa Chemical complex.
China-bashing fuels rising anti-Asian violence
Some sharp political analysis and good advice on how to defend AAPI residents in the U.S.
New bill filed in NYC for community control of cops
The five-year campaign for an elected police review board, led by New York FSP with broad community support, is now before the City Council. A first.
Reactionaries aggressively target trans kids
Students, parents, teachers, doctors, and athletes are speaking out against a massive legal assault on trans youth.
Is destruction of sacred Indigenous sites a mistake by a rogue company?
No, just business as usual. Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company, operates on six continents and has a sordid history of destroying Indigenous land.
A broad, historic revolt in Myanmar against a ruthless military
For the first time in this country’s history, millions of very diverse peoples are rising up in combative solidarity.
Stirring Judas and the Black Messiah leaves more to tell
A vital film that leaves the viewer wanting to know more about the extraordinary life of revolutionary Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party.
Big Pharma makes me sick
Are the drug companies the pandemic superheroes that the mainstream media are making them out to be? Hardly, says neurologist Steven Strauss.
Defend Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s elected socialist
A right-wing funded effort to recall Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative, from her seat on Seattle City Council, needs to be stopped.
Palestinians rise up in self-defense
Whatever precipitates it in a given instance, deadly conflict in Gaza has one primary cause.
LGBTQ Equality Act … pass it now!
Time to demand that the Democrats take their pro-equality platform seriously.
Kids in prison for life, no way
Right-wing Supreme Court justices have okayed life without parole for juveniles. Madness!
Letters to the editor, June 2021
Readers from Germany, Canada, Australia and the United States write in.
All support to the struggle of the Colombian people!
Colombian workers and youth are fighting against the attacks of President Ivan Duque and those responsible for the more than 35 deaths in the mass protests that have been occurring since April 28.
Stand with the Palestinian people: End the Israeli bombing of Gaza!
The Freedom Socialist Party condemns Israel’s mid-May bombardment of Gaza and state backing of settlers’ assaults on Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah section of East Jerusalem.
George Floyd’s murderer found guilty: not justice, but a long-overdue reckoning
Derek Chauvin's guilty verdicts are a testament to the power of the Black Lives Matter movement – but still a far cry from justice as the fight to stop cop murders continues.
