By Larry Hales
FIST National Office
The uprising in Greece incited by the police murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Andreas Grigoropoulos entered its 13th day on Dec. 19.
Greek youth rebel.
photo: KOE Communist Organization of Greece
The uprising has a spontaneous character, and anarchist and all communist groups to the left of social-democratic [...]
By Tyneisha Bowens, FIST
Students at The New School in New York City formed the New School Radical Student Union and occupied the dining hall of a New School building on Dec. 17, demanding more accessible and democratic education.
The Union demanded the removal of New School President Bob Kerrey, [...]
By Monica Moorehead
Durham, N.C.
The 7th biannual Southern Human Rights Organizing Conference (SHROC VII) was held in Durham, N.C., from Dec. 12 to 14. The first SHROC was held in 1996. “Framing a Southern Human Rights Agenda—Strategies for Moving Forward” was the overall theme of this year’s conference.
North Carolina [...]
By Heather Cottin
Even while trillions of dollars were being poured into the Pentagon budget, education in the United States was slipping behind the rest of the world.
According to the National Governors Association Web site, in just 11 years—from 1995 to 2006—the percentage of college-age people who obtained a [...]
