Members of Teamsters Local 117 who work for Coca Cola bottling plants in western Washington are locked in a battle for a fair and equitable contract.

Members of UNITE HERE Local 2850 rallied on August 26--the 184th day of their lockout by the Castlewood Country Club.

On the anniversary of the Katrina disaster, Harry Shearer's documentary The Big Uneasy asks why the New Orleans' levees failed in the first place.

A new round of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is designed to safeguard Israel's interests.

From his role in the Russian 1917 Revolution to his battle against Stalinism, Leon Trotsky made an immense contribution to the revolutionary tradition.

LA teachers are gearing up to protest the Los Angeles Times for publishing the names of teachers alongside their students' test scores.

Nine activists were arrested as part of a sit-in after same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses by San Diego County officials.

Several hundred activists from all over the East Coast gathered in Washington, D.C., for the "Big Commit," a rally for LGBT rights.

Here's what passes for mainstream politics today--the Republicans spout inflammatory lies, and the Democrats retreat and act like they can't do anything about it.

A sweeping downward revision of public school students test scores in New York shows that the supposed advances of "school reform" are illusory.

How far away from the "hallowed ground" of Ground Zero is it permissible to be Muslim? Maybe there needs to be specific guidelines.

If California passes a ballot measure that will legalize marijuana, it would strike a serious blow against the drug warriors and their repressive polices.

In the wake of devastating floods in Pakistan, how can those of us who live in the heart of the U.S. empire express our solidarity with ordinary Pakistanis?

High school students in Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires have seized 23 public high schools to demand repairs.

Imprisoned behind border walls, subjected to indiscriminate killings, deprived of the most basic necessities, Palestinians are asking for our help.

Corporate America's biggest grocers are out to squeeze concessions from the United Food and Commercial Workers union--once again.

Leaked documents give an alarming glimpse of corruption, waste and fraud in the big business of Major League Baseball.

Residents of Swaziland are living under the thumb of one of the world's last absolute monarchies, a venal and repressive regime that plunders the country.

My article on the education jobs bill was primarily an account of the fight against teacher layoffs, not a portrayal of Obama as a friend of workers.

Five years ago, two Socialist Worker contributors wrote about being trapped in New Orleans. Their story helped expose the truth about the Katrina nightmare.