A cop in Loveland, Colorado broke a 73-year-old woman’s arm while arresting her for shoplifting. Then he laughed about it with fellow cops. The police department covered up this assault for over nine months.
Tenants, organizers, and community members came together in Downtown Brooklyn on Monday, successfully halting 22 evictions.
As the trial of killer cop Derek Chauvin was coming to a close, police in Alameda County, California Murdered 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez under circumstances grimly reminiscent of the murder of George Floyd.
More than three months after pulling a gun in an encounter with protesters, a New York City cop is still on the job. It’s more evidence of the real role and character of policing in capitalist America.
Florida has a new law, the so-called “Anti-Riot Bill,” targeting Black Lives Matter and other protesters. It criminalizes free speech and subjects those arrested and convicted to significant jail time.
In Myanmar more than 700 demonstrators, including children as young as five and workers gunned down in their factories, have been killed since resistance to the coup began in early February.
Private capital and sport for profit must be replaced by a real people’s sport, run by the people for the people.
In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of U.S. textile workers took advantage of new legislation and joined unions in an industry that had been facing economic hardship even before the Great Depression. Exploitative working conditions in the South led to one of the largest labor strikes in U.S. history — one that suffered a bitter defeat. The story and its lessons deserve to be told.
After months of negotiations, graduate student workers at New York University are ready to fight for a living wage and a safer, police-free campus.
Two cops aimed their guns at a Black U.S. Army medic in a traffic stop over his license plate, then assaulted him. For four months, they were protected. Can officials be trusted to “investigate” police racism?
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