The notoriously anti-union D.C. School Chancellor Michelle Rhee fired 241 teachers without regard to seniority guaranteed by the union contract.

The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel endorses the call for boycotting Arizona on account of its manifestly racist laws.

In late July, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago had to temporarily close due to a bomb scare when a mysterious box was discovered outside.

An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian man to 18 months in prison for engaging in consensual sex. The charge? "Rape by deception"?

Some 50 New York City protesters brought attention to Israel's crimes against the Palestinians--with song.

Activists gathered at the United National Antiwar Conference to discuss strategies and the next steps for the movement.

Six months after Haiti's catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world's most powerful governments to provide billions in aid are unfulfilled.

Supporters of justice and civil rights gathered around the country for protests on July 29 as Arizona's anti-immigrant law SB 1070 went into effect.

Immigrant students taking action for the DREAM Act are exposing an unjust system--and setting an inspiring example for the wider movement.

With the economic crisis looming over the governor's race, Green Party candidate Rich Whitney is winning a hearing by talking about taxing the rich.

Irving Bernstein's two volumes The Lean Years and The Turbulent Years explore the hidden history of U.S. workers' struggles in the 1920s and '30s.

WikiLeaks' release of thousands of documents on Afghanistan has left the Obama administration and its war partners trying to defend the indefensible.

Immigrant rights activists are celebrating a federal judge's injunction blocking the worst parts of SB 1070--even as they organize for a day of action.

Oregon's governor has ordered every state agency to slash their budgets by 9 percent to close a half-billion-dollar budget gap.

The conflict in Northern Ireland was proclaimed over in 1998. Yet there are daily attacks on security forces and worsening street violence.

Hundreds of unionists and their allies risked arrest in civil disobedience actions as part of a day of action to support Hyatt hotel workers.

At Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, administrators claim they can't find the money to keep a much-needed health center open.

When Operation Save America chose Charlotte, N.C., for a week of harassment at women's health clinics, pro-choice activists got organized.

U.S. workers are still being hammered by the recession, but you'd never know it to judge from what politicians are proposing.

The firestorm over Shirley Sherrod and her firing shows how far the "national discussion" on race has shifted to the right.