Many, many international conferences on climate change have been held since scientists began issuing alarming reports on what human activity was doing to the planet. Hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, reports and resolutions have been produced. Yet the unprecedented warming of the planet continues to exceed all those early projections. Carbon dioxide and [...]
Free Private Manning!
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Editor November 28, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Sometimes a trial will throw a light upon the injustices inherent in an entire society. Such a trial is the one scheduled for February 2013 that puts Army Pfc. B. Manning — a whistle-blower and a true friend of peace and justice — in danger of life imprisonment. Imperialism is a social and economic system [...]
Free Leonard Peltier!
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Editor November 21, 2012 » Add more comments.
Nov. 22 will mark 13,439 days of incarceration for Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. This year’s commemoration of the National Day of Mourning, to be held in Plymouth, Mass., will once again honor Peltier, a hero-in-the-struggle who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976. The so-called “Thanksgiving” holiday is a stark reminder of the centuries of [...]
Which ‘cliff’ should we be talking about?
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Editor November 18, 2012 » Add the first comment.
A lot of workers in all the capitalist countries feel like they’ve fallen over a cliff. The ground under their feet has disappeared, along with their jobs, homes and plans for the future. But that’s not what U.S. politicians mean when they warn about a “fiscal cliff.” They’re talking about some tax and spending measures [...]
Obama wins, struggle begins
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Editor November 7, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Nov. 7 — The elections are over, and while only the preliminary results are in as of this writing, a few things stand out clearly. The strategy of the right wing to not-so-subtly race-bait Obama, deride “big government,” and appeal to reactionary fears on abortion and gay marriage was not decisive. Nor was the Supreme [...]
Will superstorm break the silence?
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Editor November 2, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Workers World Party statement As of Nov. 2, the toll from Hurricane Sandy, the huge storm that ravaged the Caribbean and then cut a swath from the mid-Atlantic states all the way up into Canada, is reported to be 67 people killed in the Caribbean and 95 people dead in the U.S., including 44 in [...]
Not an act of charity
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Editor October 24, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Fueled by funding from racist, right-wing capitalists, a campaign to restrict and deny voting rights to African-American, Latino/a, and other poor and oppressed communities is raging across the U.S. Just how far will it go? Just three weeks before the elections, billboards saying, “Voter Fraud is a Felony — Up to 3-1/2 years & $10,000 [...]
Another war prize
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Editor October 22, 2012 » Add more comments.
It has always been problematic that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded from the legacy of a Swedish industrialist whose millions came from munitions that made the late 19th and 20th century wars the most deadly in human history. In 1973 the prize was awarded jointly to Vietnam War criminal Henry Kissinger and Vietnamese resistance [...]
Where we stand on the election
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Editor October 15, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Workers World says don’t look to the capitalist elections to bring about any of the changes that workers, oppressed peoples, women, the LGBTQ community, youth, the elderly and immigrants so desperately need in this country. The U.S. presidential elections try to obliterate the fact that this is a highly stratified class society, with the widest [...]
No imperialist, racist wars!
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Editor October 3, 2012 » Add the first comment.
WORKERS WORLD STATEMENT We commend all who rally and march on the Oct. 5-7 weekend to resist the imperialist war drive and say, “U.S./NATO out of Afghanistan!” “Hands off Syria!” “Don’t attack Iran!” “No more drone attacks!” and “No sanctions!” We commend the United National Antiwar Coalition and its constituent organizations who called and coordinated [...]
