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What happened to the “war on terror”? 

More than 2,000 fast food workers and their supporters joined a mass sit-in outside a McDonald’s corporate shareholders event in the US city of Chicago on Wednesday 21 May.

They are among the poorest paid people in the US and many thought they could not be organised. But last week workers in the fast food industry hit back with a strike that reached 160 cities. Julie Sherry met activists in New York and discussed how their fight has changed their lives—and why it needs to spread to other workers

The biggest fast food workers’ strike so far is set to hit the US on Thursday of this week. Solidarity protests will take place in over 30 countries in a global day of action to demand union recognition, better pay and respect at work.

After the death of US boxer Rubin Carter, Ken Olende looks at how he refused to be beaten by a racist state determined to fit him up

Pro-Russian insurgents seize buildings and imperialist powers step up war of words as the escalating crisis spirals out of the new Kiev government’s control

The West and Russia are continuing their phoney war over Ukraine.

As Western and Russian rulers rattle sabres, Simon Basketter says we must take on a system that drives the world to war

Crimea has joined the Russian Federation as the Ukrainian crisis continues to be a faultline for the major powers. The outcome of a referendum in Crimea last weekend was a foregone conclusion. 

Two British citizens who were extradited to the US on terrorism charges are challenging a witness.

Former Black Panther Eddie Conway has been released after almost 44 years in prison. 

Intervention in Crimea has escalated a deadly game between Russia and the West, writes Simon Basketter