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New York City nurses, 16,000 strong, on strike
NEW YORK—Short-staffing, fair pay, preserving health care benefits, protection against workplace violence, and putting patients before profits moved 16,000 registered nurses at leading New York City hospitals into an unfair labor practices strike starting yesterday, January 12. At an outdoor mid-day press conference in front of New York Presbyterian Hospital, one of the dozen hospitals […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- January 13, 2026
D.C. turns up heat on ICE with bill banning police cooperation
WASHINGTON—D.C. lawmakers are trying to put the heat on ICE and take a stand for residents with the introduction of the Safe Community Places and Policing Amendment Act of 2025 by Ward 4 Council Member Janeese Lewis George, who is also running for mayor of Washington. The bill would ensure that the District’s policies reflect […]
- By : Damion Dixon
- January 13, 2026
Nurses in Ithaca fight union-busting ahead of NLRB election
ITHACA, N.Y.—On a frigid December morning a week before Christmas, Cayuga United—a nurses’ union at Cayuga Medical Center—held a rally on the front steps of the Ithaca Town Hall. Angela Grupe, a nurse at CMC, spoke to the crowd of community supporters gathered around. “So, we’ve all seen it before: The abusive relationship where one […]
- By : Jason Villarruel
- January 12, 2026
RAPID RESPONSE: Pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act now!
Pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act now! Call, write, or visit your U.S. Senators and demand they immediately restore collective bargaining rights to federal workers by passing the bi-partisan Protect America’s Workforce Act (S.2837) already passed by the House. Trump’s illegal removal of collective bargaining rights from 75% of federal workers is an assault on the […]
- By : People’s World
- January 12, 2026
Jobless data a disaster with employment levels sinking rapidly
WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s constant bragging about a great economy is a lie. The Bureau of Labor Statistics for December and for the year shows an economic dud. The nation’s official unemployment rate ended the year at 4.4%, up from 4% when Trump took over the Oval Office and 3.8% in December 2024. There were officially 7.5 […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- January 12, 2026
Uprising against ICE raids grows across the country
WASHINGTON—An ICE agent’s killing of a 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, and the ICE shooting of two other people in Portland, Ore., have sparked massive anti-ICE and anti-Trump protests in more than 1,000 cities nationwide. In some states, lawmakers are pushing anti-ICE bills in response to the violence. The number of […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- January 12, 2026
Gaza as a linchpin: 6 reasons why Netanyahu prolongs conflict in the Middle East
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing from Donald Trump. As with previous encounters, the meeting provided Netanyahu with diplomatic cover and strategic reassurance, reinforcing Israel’s ability to sustain its military posture in Gaza and across the region […]
- By : Ramzy Baroud
- January 12, 2026
Defeating dictatorship and resisting imperial interference: Dual challenges of Iran’s protest movement
Lashing out with deadly violence, the theocratic regime that rules Iran has murdered, according to unverified numbers, at least several hundred demonstrators and possibly thousands in a desperate attempt to crush the mass popular uprising that’s rapidly spread across the country since mid-December. The scale and lethality of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s security forces’ response […]
- By : C.J. Atkins
- January 12, 2026
Trump says he’ll unleash Venezuela’s oil. But who wants it?
Shortly after launching a dramatic raid in which U.S. forces abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, President Donald Trump justified the action with a promise to revive Venezuela’s moribund oil industry. The country has by far the largest claimed reserves of crude oil in the world, accounting for almost a fifth of the planet’s […]
- By : Jake Bittle
- January 12, 2026
Before ICE shooting, immigration agents repeatedly used deadly force
When an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday, it was not the first time that federal officers have killed civilians since the Trump administration launched its aggressive immigration enforcement campaign. Federal officers have fatally shot at least three other people in the last five months, according to […]
- By : Shannon Heffernan
- January 9, 2026