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Outrage over a Marine who survived enemy fire only to be wounded by Oakland, Calif., police at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration has elicited more sympathy for the movement nationally as protesters turn up the heat on banks.

Ann Czernik asks why wealthy Harrogate has welcomed the new Jarrow march with as much enthusiasm as their 1936 forebears

When the Jarrow marchers arrived in Harrogate 75 years ago it was reported that they were welcomed "like a relief column raising a siege."

MINNEAPOLIS - This year's AFL-CIO Next Up Summit, held here Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, had a very different flavor. Unlike the 2010 summit, this conference was lead and organized by young union members from across the country.

All over the country, youth are talking about the immediate need to redistribute wealth and political power from the hands of a few to the working class majority.

NEW YORK CITY -- "I figured if I'm going to be homeless, I might as well be homeless for a good reason," said Matt Kitchens. The Alabama native is one of the hundreds of restless youth Occupying Wall Street, determined that their voices be heard.

When the first economic meltdown hit in 2008, speculation and sub-prime loan debt were to blame. Now, with $900 billion in student loans, Americans are beginning to ask the question, is the student debt crisis next?

Young Communists all over the country are gearing up for the YCL National Day of Action September 24th 2011!

A statement from the Young Communist League of Israel on the recent developments in Israel.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The recession is literally a matter of life and death this summer for the youth who are facing record levels of street violence resulting from of unemployment. In this city, there have been funeral services for youth killed by gun violence nearly every two weeks this summer. At the same time, the city's youth summer jobs program was only able to employ half the number of youth as it did last year.

Camila Vallejo Dowling, 23, a geography student at the University of Chile and president of the Student Federation of the same university (FECH), has become the most popular and inspiring leader of the current and massive student movement that have brought to its knees, for the last 3 months, Sebastián Piñera's right wing government.Camila Vallejo Dowling, 23, a geography student at the University of Chile and president of the Student Federation of the same university (FECH), has become the most popular and inspiring leader of the current and massive student movement that have brought to its knees, for the last 3 months, Sebastián Piñera's right wing government.

Hundreds of student guest workers from countries worldwide walked out of a Hershey's chocolate company packing plant in Palmyra, Pa., August 17, demanding the company stop exploiting them.

Hundreds of right-wing neo-Nazis and fascists got a big surprise when they went home and washed their new T-shirts from a German right-wing music festival: a message of hope and tolerance.

A firestorm of protest has erupted over the Aug. 11 action by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), which shut off cell phone and wireless access to some San Francisco stations for several hours in anticipation of a protest over BART police' killing of a homeless man last month.

In 2006, I moved to West Milford, N.J., a large, rural township in the northwestern region of the state. The town had two grocery stores, a few liquor stores, a McDonald's, and a pharmacy, very few small businesses or department stores. I called the town home. I wasn't as aware of the growing economic problem at the time, but if I had been, I could have predicted that areas like West Milford would be the ones hit hardest.

British responses to the rioting spreading throughout England have had a sharp anti-youth tone. The violence was sparked after the police murder of a young black father and an attack on a demonstration protesting the killing.

CHICAGO - A crowd of local union members, advocates for the unemployed and elected officials were on hand outside the Gould Elementary School here Aug. 10, for the unveiling of the first jobs bill which actually aims to hire people.

The recession hasn't been good for anyone, but children have been especially hard hit, even "over the past year, as the country slowly climbs out of the recession," says a new report by the Children's Defense Fund.

CHICAGO - Dozens of unemployed activists and supporters rallied here at Federal Plaza August 5 urging Congress to enact a massive federal jobs program and not to cut badly needed social entitlement programs.

HURST, Texas - Young people from all over the Lone Star State converged in the city of Hurst in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to attend the last stop this summer of the Red School Bus Tour.

In the past four weeks, the Chilean education system has been caught in the eye of a storm driven by hundreds of thousands of students and teachers who are demanding democratic education reforms.