Union means everything on New Orleans docks
As they operate the cranes and forklifts at this famous port, workers here say they are 100 percent behind the fight for union rights being waged across the country.
UAW plans new organizing drive with help from its friends
The United Auto Workers is launching a new drive to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S., with the determined help of civil rights and other organizations.
Black trade unionists say no to Arizona hate law
DETROIT - Forty years ago the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists "woke up" the labor movement to the importance of struggles for justice and peace, and they aren't stopping yet.
Unions, passengers unite to save mass transit and jobs
Thousands of transit workers and passengers rallied at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on March 27 to demand federal funding for public transit systems nationwide.
Remembering James W. Ford
In honor of African American History Month, the sixth article in our series on the Communist Party's 90th Anniversary will survey a document written by James W. Ford.
World AIDS Day: ‘Be faithful, be tested, be unionized’
In South Africa, a highly successful AIDS program is led by a union.
Black History reprint: Working-class roots of Bill Withers
You might be a Bill Withers fan without realizing it. If you ever grooved to Will Smith’s “Just the Two of Us,” sang along with “Lean On Me” or thought to yourself, “Ain’t No Sunshine” when she’s gone, you know Withers’ timeless musical touch.
