United States
07 August 2020
He said, “This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested. I ain’t going to jail no more. What we gonna start saying now is ‘Black Power’.”
04 August 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union is the focus of the resistance to Trump in documentary The Fight. But it can’t overcome its limitations
03 August 2020
Donald Trump is stepping up his right wing threats as he tries to secure his presidency.
02 August 2020
The World Health Organisation recorded the highest daily number of new cases globally on Saturday.
28 July 2020
The biggest teaching union in Florida has filed a lawsuit to challenge an order to reopen schools next month.
28 July 2020
Protesters in Portland, Oregon, have night after night fought back against repression by Donald Trump’s federal troops.
25 July 2020
Coronavirus continues to sweep across the globe, with underfunded and understaffed health services struggling to provide care.
22 July 2020
Anti-racist protesters in Portland, Oregon are continuing their battles against police and federal troops sent in by US president Donald Trump.
21 July 2020
Workers’ action on Monday showed the anger at racism and poor conditions, says Sophie Squire
12 July 2020
'Tell the world the facts,' said Wells as she unmasked US racism
09 July 2020
A coalition of trade unions and campaign groups in the US is organising a “strike for black lives,” set for Monday 20 July.
07 July 2020
Mrs America follows the political upheaval around the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s
07 July 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell is charged with procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with, and engaging in sexual activity with them herself.
07 July 2020
Israel stalled plans to annexe huge chunks of the Palestinian West Bank last week.
05 July 2020
The ‘forgotten war’ that began 70 years ago wrecked a country so that big powers could grab more influence, writes Sophie Squire
03 July 2020
“If we must die, O let us nobly die/So that our precious blood may not be shed/In vain,” is perhaps another way of saying that black lives matter.
29 June 2020
The death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 128,000 in the US on Monday
21 June 2020
Du Bois was one of the most prolific and popular sociologists, academics and civil rights activists of the first half of the 20th century
20 June 2020
In 1921 racists wanted to put black people down, and break workers' unity
11 June 2020
For retired US Marine general James Mattis to publicly condemn the US president as a threat to the constitution is unprecedented.