Syria’s counterrevolutionary opposition has taken a step that moves it even closer to U.S. imperialism. At the same time, the Barack Obama administration has moved a step closer to direct and open intervention in the war against Syria, using the pretext that “chemical weapons” have been used. Only the imperialists’ monopoly of the world media [...]
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Two steps closer to a U.S. war on Syria
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John Catalinotto March 22, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Portugal’s people unite against austerity
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John Catalinotto March 5, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Hundreds of thousands of Portuguese took to the streets March 2 to demand an end to the austerity programs imposed on the country by both the foreign “troika” — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — and the domestic troika, made up of the two rightist parties running the [...]
Baltimore community groups sue to stop school closing
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John Catalinotto February 28, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Community organizations in Baltimore have opened a struggle to keep a high school open in defiance of the city school authorities. The high school, Northwestern, serves a large number of African-American and Latino/a youth in the city, and has graduated some of the top political and social leaders in Maryland. This struggle joins the Baltimore [...]
WW editor’s fracking essay wins Havana Book Fair prize
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John Catalinotto February 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Workers World contributing editor Betsey Piette was honored with a prize at a ceremony at the International Book Fair in Havana, Cuba, for her essay on the struggle against fracking and the corporate threat to the global environment and local environments. Piette’s prize-winning essay is entitled, “Drilling into the abyss: Why hydraulic fracturing is not [...]
Leftist leader’s murder arouses mass resistance in Tunisia
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John Catalinotto February 8, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The 500,000 members of Tunisia’s union federation shut down this North African country’s major cities on Feb 8 as tens of thousands joined the funeral march in Tunis of Chokri Belaïd, slain leader of the Unified Patriotic Democratic Movement, a Marxist and pan-Arabist organization. According to reports, masked killers gunned down Belaïd in his car [...]
Mass march protests murder of Kurdish women leaders in Paris
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John Catalinotto January 20, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Tens of thousands of Kurds demonstrated in Paris on Jan. 12 following the murder of three women activists of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), including its co-founder, Sakineh Cansiz; the representative of the Kurdistan National Congress, Fidan Dogan; and the young activist, Leyla Söylemez. The PKK has been carrying out a struggle for self-determination of [...]
Mass outpouring for Chávez’s gov’t in Venezuela
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John Catalinotto January 11, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Jan. 10 — The people of Venezuela poured into the streets by the hundreds of thousands in the country’s four major cities today to defend recently re-elected President Hugo Chávez and his government. Because Chávez is still under treatment for cancer in Havana, Cuba, he was unable to participate in the scheduled inaugural ceremony. Anti-Chávez [...]
Spain: Free Alfon!
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John Catalinotto January 8, 2013 » Add more comments.
There are times when an individual framed, beaten and jailed by the police is just a victim. There are other times when that person becomes a symbol of struggle for an entire movement. This is exactly what is happening in Spain today, which is wracked by 25 percent unemployment, 50 percent among youth.. The person [...]
Walmart blamed in Bangladesh fire
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John Catalinotto December 16, 2012 » Add the first comment.
People protesting the horrific factory fire that last month killed at least 112 garment workers in Bangladesh held a rally Dec. 6 in the center of a South Asian community in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. Speakers focused on the responsibility of giant retailers like U.S. megacorporation Walmart and European firms like Carrefour [...]
International solidarity with workers in the USA
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John Catalinotto December 7, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Following are statements of solidarity that various organizations and individuals sent to the Nov. 17-18 Workers World Party National Conference in New York. Federation of Cuban Women Esteemed comrades, On the occasion of the National Conference of Workers World Party, on behalf of the Federation of Cuban Women, we send our warmest greetings. We take [...]
