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Protests denounce ICE raids
When the Washington Post leaked on Dec. 23 that the Barack Obama administration would begin a series of raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, and...
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Detroit teachers expose school crisis
A series of rolling sickouts for several months by teachers across the Detroit Public Schools system culminated on Monday, Jan. 11, with the closure of virtually every school. The sickouts continued...
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Maestras/os en Detroit exponen crisis escolar
Una serie de ausencias por enfermedad durante varios meses por las/os maestros del sistema de Escuelas Públicas de Detroit (DPS siglas en inglés), culminó el lunes 11 de enero con el cierre de...
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Detroit teachers beat back injunction against sick-out actions
Jan. 25 — Teachers in the Detroit Public Schools scored a major legal victory today when, for the second time, Judge Cynthia Stephens of the Michigan Court of Claims, a division of the Court of...
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GET THE LEAD OUT!
More horrors are being exposed daily by the corporate-owned news media regarding the criminal water poisoning of Flint, Mich., residents. Up until now the media have gone along with Republican Gov....
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Demonstration to demand: ‘Justice for Flint! Make GM pay!’
General Motors announced Feb. 3 gargantuan profits for 2015. The auto giant netted $9.7 billion after what little it pays in taxes. Organizers in Detroit with the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop...
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Mississippi poised to enact anti-LGBT*Q law
April 4 — On the evening of Wednesday, March 30, the Mississippi Senate voted to pass the so-called “Protecting Freedom of Conscience From Government Discrimination Act” or “the Religious Liberty...
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Outrage as student rapist gets slap on wrist
Powerful protests, both vocal and silent, punctuated the Stanford University commencement on June 12. Dozens of graduating students expressed their outrage over the meager sentence handed down to Brock...
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Motor City Pride revs up
Demanding bathroom justice at Detroit Pride parade, June 12. The Motor City Pride Fest took place in downtown Detroit on June 11-12. The annual event is Michigan’s largest LGBTQ Pride gathering,...
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Revolutionary LGBTQ Pride
Workers World Party in Detroit commemorated LGBTQ Pride month with a public forum June 25. The featured speaker was Loan Tran, a queer and gender nonconforming organizer from North Carolina who is a...
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Protesters in Detroit say NO to Trump’s racism
Protesters denounce Trump, Aug. 8. Aug. 8 — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave what the big-business-owned press dubbed “a major economic policy speech” in Detroit today. Trump, who...
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Native peoples block toxic oil pipeline
Aug. 23 — The start of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multi-state, 1,100-mile-long crude oil pipeline to be built under the Missouri, Mississippi and Big Sioux rivers, was temporarily...
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After Charlotte Uprising, solidarity activists focus on Bank of America
From New York to Los Angeles and other cities in between, activists came out on Oct. 4 to show solidarity with the Charlotte Uprising and to echo its demands for justice and an end to racist police...
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WWP national conference: Organizing for socialism
Nov. 1 — The national conference of Workers World Party is fast approaching. Slated for Nov. 11-13 in New York City, this gathering of revolutionaries from around the country and the world will be...
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Thousands across U.S. demand ‘$15 and a union’
Workers held a National Day of Disruption for $15 and a Union across the United States on Nov. 29, marking the fourth anniversary of the continuing Fight for $15 movement. The most exploited and...
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‘Days of Action’ all December for Standing Rock
Dec. 19 — Indigenous peoples and supporters continue their encampment in brutally cold and harsh winter conditions at Cannonball, N.D., to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built under the...
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Resistance at Standing Rock continues despite reactionary bill
Cops surround and attack water protectors on the Backwater Bridge, Nov. 20. Jan. 16 — A bill introduced in the North Dakota State Legislature on Jan. 11 would give a legal green light to police,...
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Women march against sexism, racism & Trump
Click to view slideshow. A massive women’s demonstration of more than 1 million people in Washington, D.C., and 673 other protests around the U.S. and on every continent took place on Jan. 21, the...
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Protests flood airports
Click to view slideshow. Outrage was swift after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 27 immediately banning people from seven primarily Muslim countries, all of them victims of U.S....
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Protesters fight back
Detroit The struggle has been nonstop since the Jan. 20 inauguration of billionaire arch-bigot Donald Trump as the 45th president of United States. Many of these protests, occurring in cities and towns...
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