Exposed: Canadian Oil and Gas Workers, Many Unions, Now Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline

Amidst the ongoing jobs-vs-environment debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, one voice is noticeably absent: the bitumen workers in Canada who are largely against long-term tar sands extraction and the building of the pipeline.

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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools

The state is using its monopoly on education to benefit certain corporations—and students' personal information will be stored by News Corp.

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Killings and Repression Spark Revolt in Brooklyn

The March 9 killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn has unleashed a torrent of outrage about police brutality and racism in New York City.

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Shuttered: How America is Selling Out its Schools

Public schools across America are being liquidated by the dozens, with 54 announced recently in Chicago, 23 in Philadelphia and 22 in New York.

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Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?

Seventy percent of Japan's population wants a nuclear-free future but the government is ignoring their demands, even as experts give cleanup operations at Fukushima a centuries-long timetable.

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Fracking Industry Propaganda Battles Science in Obama's New Energy Pick

President Obama's appointment of Dr. Ernest Moniz to head the U.S. Energy Department is a literal payoff to the hydrofracking industry, which has funneled millions into Moniz's Energy Initiative research at MIT.

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New York's Victory Against Big Gas: Frackers, Get Packing

A major battle in America's frack war came to a head in New York this week as opponents of drilling mobilized by the thousands to successfully maintain a 2010 moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.

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New York City's Bus Strike At Critical Juncture

Employee Protection Provisions are at the heart of the bus strikers' dispute roiling New York City, where 24-hour pickets set up by the Amalgamated Transit Union surrounded bus depots from the Bronx to Staten Island.

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Can the Occupy Movement and Organized Labor Strengthen Ties in 2013?

With its emphasis on direct democracy, spontaneity and flexibility of tactics – unbounded by union hierarchies or legal impediments such as the Taft-Hartley Act – Occupy has infused the labor movement with a fresh dose of radicalism.

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At Doha Climate Conference, Arab Spring or Silent Spring?

At the latest failed UN climate negotiations, held in Qatar, youth delegates walked out in protest joining indigenous tribes, trade unionists and students rallying for a just and sustainable economy.

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