Roberta Wood

CHICAGO—Trump’s “cruel and violent” actions are not about safety, said Illinois Congressman Jesús “Chuy” Garcia at a rally here on Monday afternoon. “They’re about control,” Garcia said. “Fear is the tactic, and silence is the goal.

CHICAGO - Every day every home in America welcomes a visit from an agent of the federal government. And it seems like almost every day one of these agents is assaulted or threatened in carrying out their duties.

CHICAGO - Every day every home in America welcomes a visit from an agent of the federal government. And it seems like almost every day one of these agents is assaulted or threatened in carrying out their duties.

CHICAGO—No matter how big the company is, we workers are stronger—when we’re united! declared Beatrice Lumpkin at a noisy, spirited rally Thursday in front of the Starbucks store in Chicago’s West Loop.

Communist Party Co-chair Joe Sims issued this indictment of America’s biggest corporations — starting with the manufacturers of Coors’s – in a YouTube video released this week by the Party to argue for collective action by this country’s working class to defeat what Sims calls “the fasci...

Isn’t it time we give equal recognition to the role of men as the real begetters of life? Simply outlawing abortions by reversing Roe v. Wade still leaves trillions of potential human lives unprotected. After all, it’s in a man’s body that human life gets its start.

Isn’t it time we give equal recognition to the role of men as the real begetters of life? Simply outlawing abortions by reversing Roe v. Wade still leaves trillions of potential human lives unprotected. After all, it’s in a man’s body that human life gets its start.

CHICAGO—“We’re just tired!” April Flowers-Lewis told a rally in support of striking Mondelez workers. It’s not hard to see why the folks who make the nation’s cookies and crackers are exhausted and fed up.

NAPERVILLE, Ill.—“It’s a license to steal!” said auto tech Tom Sanecki. With 41 years in the trade, Sanecki was outraged at the proposal of the New Car Dealers Committee for a clause in the new contract that would allow dealerships to unilaterally lower wages or diminish conditions.

My late uncle, LeRoy H. Wood, spent years in a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., for what he did in Washington, D.C. Roy was convicted of “conspiring to teach the advocacy of the overthrow of the U.S. government by force and violence.

My late uncle, LeRoy H. Wood, spent years in a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., for what he did in Washington, D.C. Roy was convicted of “conspiring to teach the advocacy of the overthrow of the U.S. government by force and violence. | Page 1000

Funds for public safety, including police, will be on the chopping block for cities and states across the nation if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gets his way. McConnell is insisting that state, tribal, and local governments get no federal funds in a Covid-19 Relief Bill.

EVANSTON, Ill. – Is it too much to ask for an institution sitting on an $11 billion dollar endowment to provide sick pay for 14 days for an employee under a coronavirus quarantine? “Dying in” for health and safety, scores of cooks and housekeepers employed at Northwestern University’s leafy...

EVANSTON, Ill. – Is it too much to ask for an institution sitting on an $11 billion dollar endowment to provide sick pay for 14 days for an employee under a coronavirus quarantine? “Dying in” for health and safety, scores of cooks and housekeepers employed at Northwestern University’s leafy...

This time Donald Trump was telling the truth. We’d better listen when he tells us what he’s going to do. Tuesday’s debate revealed that Trump and his corporate supporters know that not only is he not able to win the votes of the majority of the American people, but he will not be able to win t...

CHICAGO—If he could have worn a fresh N95 mask for every procedure as mandated by the Centers for Disease Control, would surgical technologist Juan Martínez be alive today? It was a tough question for a reporter to ask a grieving daughter.

The real reason Smithfield has forced its workers to go back onto its killer assembly lines is simply the fact that in times like this that is what large corporations do to maintain their profits.

When your boss appears all-powerful, it sure looks easier to kiss his rear end than to put up a fight, but it’s been the bitter experience of decades of labor history that the kissing of ass (theirs) sooner or later leads to the kicking of ass (ours).

CHICAGO - There are more than 6,000 striking hotel workers in Chicago, and Thursday it felt like every last one of them was on the sidewalks of this city’s Magnificent Mile in the biggest percussion orchestra this city has ever seen.

CHICAGO - Thousands of workers striking this city’s 26 biggest luxury and boutique hotels for the last seven days paraded along the Magnificent Mile today, producing noise that rose up through the cavernous skyscrapers from one end of the wealthy shopping boulevard to the other.