Days before the Chicago school board was to vote on closing 54 schools, thousands took to the streets for three days of marching to demand education justice.

A parent leader of the struggle to save one of 54 schools on the chopping block in Chicago talks about what's at stake.

Seattle Public Schools waved the white flag with an announcement that high schools can opt out of the MAP standardized test.

Some 2,000 Philadelphia students took action to protest racist school closures that will ravage the school district.

A New York City judge has tossed out manslaughter charges against the NYPD officer who killed Ramarley Graham.

David Silva's death after a savage beating by Bakersfield sheriff's deputies is sparking outrage, despite alleged efforts by officials to cover it up.

Two hundred people turned out on May 6 to mark the one-year anniversary of Alan Blueford's murder by Oakland police.

By late April 1917, the Bolsheviks stood out as the one major political party committed to workers' self-emancipation.

A leading member of Portugal's Left Bloc discusses the opposition to austerity in Europe and the opportunities for the left.

Michael Bloomberg's increasingly strange statements about stop-and-frisk rest on an assertion that cops are there to stop crime.

Benny Warr was sitting in his wheelchair waiting for the bus when Rochester police told him to leave--and then beat him.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to shutter 54 schools is the latest in a century of racist education policies in the city.

We don't want public schools organized around Corporate America's priorities for how our children should be educated.

The pledge by Seattle teachers to boycott the MAP test is part of a groundswell of opposition and activism against high-stakes standardized testing.

At a fancy gala thrown by the Harlem Success Academy, I heard charter school supporters use the legacy of civil rights struggles to sell privatization.

The winning strike by Chicago teachers can be an opening wedge against corporate school "reform"--and a fighting example for other unions.

New York school officials and teachers union leaders reached a deal that cements the basic logic of all tests, all the time.

With Barack Obama praising efforts to bust a Rhode Island teachers' union, rank-and-file teacher activists are fighting to defend public education.

Every year, Palestinians mark Nakba Day on May 15 to commemorate the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinian people.

The national strike movement by low-wage workers came to Washington, D.C., with an action by federal contract workers.

Students at Middlebury College set up a checkpoint outside a dining hall to draw attention to the issue of Israeli apartheid.

Activists with the Anti-Monsanto Project will march in California's capital against the genetically modified seed company.

Seattle Clinic Defense picketed a talk by a right-wing physician who aimed to spread lies about abortion and its impact.

The Portland school board's contract offer to teachers is more about union-busting than providing students a quality education.

The barbarism of war and the tyranny of Tsarist rule inspired the Russian working class to rebellion in February 1917.

In 1879, a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune sat down with the "cornerstone of modern socialism" for an interview.

La facilidad con que Barack Obama cede terreno ante los republicanos, pateando a su propia base en los dientes, es a estas alturas indiscutible.