Editorials

Student truth and ‘free speech’

Student protests against racism and other bigotries are being lambasted across the U.S. as an assault on “free speech.” Seeing…

November 16, 2015

EU Parliament supports Snowden

Good news is hard to find, especially since the U.S. capitalist media try to bury a lot of it. Here’s…

November 8, 2015

Two desperate, racist lies

Along with the club, the Taser, tear gas and the gun, imperialism maintains its grip over the oppressed and workers…

November 5, 2015

Habitual hospital bombers

A fluke or a war crime? U.S. warplanes bombed and destroyed a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans…

October 18, 2015

Kim Davis, the pope and hope

There's been a hullabaloo about Pope Francis meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky official jailed for refusing marriage licenses to…

October 9, 2015

Mass killings: Ignoring the obvious

Many psychologists, politicians, reporters and educators are attempting to explain why the number of people who perish in mass killings…

October 6, 2015

Shinzo Abe, public enemy

Workers World stands in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated in Tokyo since late August…

October 2, 2015

Youth of color abused under capitalism

Ahmed Mohamed is a ninth-grader of Sudanese descent who attended MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas. When he brought a…

September 21, 2015

Racism and Black tennis players

The Public Broadcasting Service recently aired an “American Masters” documentary on Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis star to break the…

September 15, 2015

Behind the govt’s ‘rosy’ jobs report

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” wrote Mark Twain. The U.S. government issued its monthly…

September 7, 2015