Since March 25, the city of Detroit has been run by an unelected, 1%-beholden supreme dictator. On that day the elected mayor and city council, all African Americans, became a paper administration with no decision-making power. The only concession the new governor-appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr made to city officials was to allow them to [...]
Attacks on Social Security mean growing poverty for retirees, elderly
The Obama administration is proposing Social Security cuts totaling more than $127 billion over the next decade. Congress and politicians have been bought off, protecting their wealthy pals at the expense of average workers. They want to cut our social safety nets and our rights. When the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, there [...]
NYC teachers, students say testing unfair
Over 500 parents and teachers, children and students, and their supporters gathered April 26 in front of Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of New York City’s Department of Education, to condemn a week of high-stakes testing based on a curriculum that hasn’t been fully implemented. The theme of the rally was “Our children are NOT a [...]
On the picket line
Workers Memorial Day, April 28 Workers Memorial Day, celebrated internationally on April 28 since 1984, has taken on heart-wrenching importance this year with two devastating work-related accidents making global headlines at the end of April. In a small town near Waco, Texas, 14 people were killed and 160 injured when a fertilizer plant exploded on [...]
Hospitals deport undocumented patients
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Chris Fry May 1, 2013 » Add the first comment.
In 2010, Quelino Ojeda Jiménez was working atop a building at Chicago’s Midway Airport when he fell to the ground below. He suffered injuries that left him nearly quadriplegic and relying on a ventilator. Three days before Christmas 2011, Advocate Christ Medical Center, over the objections of his family and Jiménez himself, crying and unable [...]
PayPal blocks funds earmarked for Cuban 5 mobilization
Issued by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five on April 26. One day after a matching-fund appeal was sent out by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, PayPal stopped all donations coming in and froze all assets in the committee’s account. The purpose of the appeal was [...]
Lynne Stewart tells supporters to keep up pressure for release
On April 26, the warden at Carswell Federal Medical Center told political prisoner Lynne Stewart that he had passed her compassionate release papers up the bureaucratic ladder to his bosses at the Bureau of Prisons in the U.S. Justice Department, an indication that he had not rejected the application. But this step, while very positive, [...]
Dissecting capitalist crisis
Fred Goldstein, author of the recently published work “Capitalism at a Dead End” and a member of the Secretariat of Workers World Party, spoke about the book to a full house at the Inquiring Mind bookstore in New Paltz, N.Y., April 12. Students and community activists from the anti-war and anti-fracking movements in the Hudson [...]
Plans for May Day 2013 in New York
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Workers World staff April 29, 2013 » Add the first comment.
A number of immigrant, labor and progressive organizations joined the May 1 Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights at an April 29 press conference in front of the Manhattan office of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to announce plans for May Day 2013 in New York. Immigrant rights groups expressed their concern and disappointment with the “Gang [...]
Marxism, capitalism and the environment
Below is a talk on Marxism and the environment given by Workers World Editor Deirdre Griswold to a Workers World Party forum in New York on April 26, 2013. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote a century and a half ago. Climate change is a modern problem. So why do we say that Marxism is [...]
