Editorials

Breaking through the walls of isolation:
What is the Prisoners Solidarity Committee?

This slightly edited statement first appeared in the Sept. 17, 1971, WW as part of a special eight-page Prisoners Solidarity…

August 5, 2020

A literal matter of history

Printed from a July 27 audio column posted on prisonradio.org.  When I was a young man — a boy really…

August 5, 2020

The virus, the GDP and the profit motive

“The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday,” the New York Times wrote July 30,  “as…

August 4, 2020

Solidarity, the best antitoxin

As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, the United States continues to report by far the largest number of cases…

July 29, 2020

Impasse in Congress over CARES 2

As COVID-19 spreads exponentially in most of the United States where the ruling class has rushed to “open” the capitalist…

July 28, 2020

Portland’s movement is fighting back! Defend Portland, Ore.! Defend People’s Resistance! No Police State!

Workers World Party Statement Despite the brutal attempt of the White House to crush the heroic Black Lives Matter movement…

July 24, 2020

The NYPD’s Big Lie

To put the Police Department’s spasm of slander directed at the Black Lives Matter movement in New York City in…

July 22, 2020

Time for the next great leap

Was capitalism ever progressive? Well, yes — compared to feudalism. The revolutionary struggles that overthrew feudal landlords, starting centuries ago…

July 21, 2020

¿Por qué ganaron los beneficios de DACA?

La Corte Suprema por más de 230 años ha llevado a cabo los objetivos conservadores de sus creadores. Ha protegido…

July 16, 2020