Racism and Self-Determination

Court rules for Albert Woodfox, now let him go!

Forty-two years in solitary confinement is 42 years too long. Albert Woodfox should be released now from a Louisiana prison.…

December 17, 2014

No let up in fight to stop police killings in Cleveland

Since the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on Nov. 22 by a white Cleveland police officer, the movement against racist…

December 17, 2014

Durham youth vs. cops

We live in a society where cops can kill an unarmed Black man, and the only person that gets indicted…

December 17, 2014

Mass marches affirm that ‘Black Lives Matter’

The four-month uprising against police violence received a tremendous boost on Dec. 13 — a national day of actions called…

December 16, 2014

Rev. Pinkney jailed for fighting racist power structure

St. Joseph, Mich. -- Another racist injustice has been committed. Here on Dec. 14, Berrien County Judge Sterling Schrock sentenced…

December 16, 2014

The right of self-determination and the class struggle

Nov. 25, 1983 (reprinted from the Dec. 8, 1983 Workers World) Of all the great domestic political problems facing the…

December 15, 2014

Justice Department intervention no cure to cop terror

Over the last several years police departments known for using lethal force against oppressed peoples have faced civil rights investigations…

December 14, 2014

Why was DeAndre Joshua killed?

DeAndre Joshua was a 20-year-old Black man who lived in Ferguson, Mo. He worked the night shift at Walmart. He…

December 14, 2014

Operation restore trust?

Dec. 2 — The flames of Ferguson have eaten their fill, and its eerie glow has cast light on how…

December 12, 2014

‘We are the resistance!’ say Syracuse students and community

Syracuse, N.Y. -- In bitter cold, 300 protesters marched from Syracuse University into downtown Syracuse in a militant outcry against…

December 11, 2014