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Thousands of black and white protesters took to the streets of New York on Wednesday of last week. They wore hooded tops and chanted "We are all Trayvon Martin" in protest at the slaying of a black teenager in Florida last month.

Workers at a Chicago factory staged a 12-hour occupation on Thursday of last week—and won an agreement that will save their jobs for at least 90 days.

The Republican primaries in the US—the long process that decides who the party’s presidential candidate will be—started in the Midwestern state of Iowa last week. The contest moved on to New Hampshire this Tuesday.

Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal no longer faces the death penalty after 30 years on death row.

For the millions who hate Sarah Palin and her reactionary politics, the rise and fall of the former governor of Alaska makes a gripping spectacle.

What a year of miracles 2011 is turning out to be. It began with revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, but has now produced a global day of protest against capitalism. An estimated one million people demonstrated worldwide on 15 October.

The Occupy Wall Street movement saw a massive mobilisation of up to 100,000 people in Times Square last Saturday.

The occupiers have made vibrant links with the trade union movement in the US. Groups of workers in union T-shirts are a common site at the occupation.

Some 23 activists were arrested at a protest at Citibank on Saturday afternoon. I was reporting on the demonstrations and was held with them.

A long day of protest Seattle culminated in several thousand people marching to sit down outside the street in front of a local Chase Bank.

Art handlers from Sotheby’s auction house in New York protested outside the company’s London premises on Thursday of last week.

Some 400 people marched with Occupy New Orleans last Saturday. Mostly young, about 50 of them were African-American.