Since the 1880s, Labor Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September. The tradition was established as part of labor’s fight for the 8-hour work day; and has since then offered a chance to reflect on the struggles and victories of working families. This Labor Day, the labor movement is once again committing itself to the fight for all working families across America. We cannot afford four more years of George W. Bush's vision for America. It is time for a new direction on jobs, health care, fair trade, and respect for the basic right of workers to form unions and to bargain collectively for a better life for themselves and their families.

A recent study by the U-Mass Donahue Institute documents how the gap between rich and poor has widened substantially in Massachusetts over the past two decades.

What Will It Take to Defeat the War?

Humanity is running out of time. That is the stark, bleak message offered by leading Australian reef scientist J.E.N. Veron to a gathering of 50 or so members of the Boston Reef Society this Saturday. By 2030, the oceans as a whole will be too acidic to sustain the coral reefs; well before then, krill populations—which feed everything from mega-mammals to birds and sea creatures much lower on food chain–will have fallen below critical levels.

One man was killed and another seriously injured after being hit by a car while working as part of a clean up crew in Mashpee yesterday.

Twenty Anti-Zionist, Pro-Palestinian and Anti-Imperialist activists protested against CJP's "New England Celebrates Israel @ 60" event in Waltham on Sunday June 1.

The crash of two trolleys on the MBTA's "D" line in Newton, MA was tragic (an operator was killed) but I think the system as a whole is fairly safe.

ACLU Report Exposes Unjust Detention of Youth

Pre-Trial Juvenile Lockup In Massachusetts Disproportionately Impacts Youth Of Color

Driving west along Alewife Brook Parkway recently, through an area called The Alewife - a swath of road and shopping centers where Cambridge, Arlington, and Watertown, MA seem to overlap - I was struc

While the federal government attempts to pass inadequate relief for victims of predatory loans, local groups and outraged citizens are agitating for a trio of bills at the state level.