The continuing campaign to gain compassionate release for Lynne Stewart — the grievously ill, imprisoned human rights attorney — is headed to Washington, D.C. Despite being approved for compassionate release, Stewart continues to be held in Carswell Federal Prison in seriously deteriorating health. Stewart’s spouse, social justice activist Ralph Poynter, will lead a continuing vigil [...]
The community group, People’s Organization for Progress, held a rally on April 16 in Newark, N.J., against cuts in Social Security and budget cuts in front of the Social Security Administration building. The protest took place on a busy street, where their signs evoked ongoing honks of support from cars, trucks and buses. Another protest [...]
The corporate media in the U.S. play a powerful role in preparation for imperialist war. They play an even more insidious role in rewriting the history of U.S. wars and obscuring the purpose of U.S. wars. They are totally intertwined with U.S. military, oil and banking corporations. In every war, this enormously powerful institution known [...]
Excerpts from a talk by Sara Flounders, a Workers World Party secretariat member, at the Nov. 17-18, 2012, WWP national conference in New York. See video at youtube.com/wwpvideo. In response to Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza, a handful of Palestinian missiles from Gaza struck Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the last two days. This is [...]
Capitalist priorities intensify storm crisis The storm that hit the U.S. East Coast Oct. 29 exposed the harm done by capitalist priorities in the crucial areas of essential health care and electric power for millions. Some 400 available industrial-scale generators sat unused while four major New York City hospitals located in flood zones and two [...]
A meeting in Tehran starting Aug. 26 puts into the sharpest perspective the waning position of U.S. imperialism globally and especially in the Middle East. Both the U.S. and Israel’s demands for a boycott of the meeting were ignored. Clearly the U.S. hold is slipping. Despite every U.S. government effort to economically strangle, militarily blockade [...]
The lifesaving struggle to free Lynne Stewart, “the people’s lawyer,” continues. Following a full-house rally on May 9 at St. Mark’s Theatre in New York City, a vigil was held in Foley Square on May 15. […]
