U.S. and Canada

Oakland Police Department implodes amid sex crime scandal

Oakland, Calif. -- Seven Black men were killed at the hands of the Oakland Police Department in 2015, but it…

June 23, 2016

Gun control or self-defense?

In the wake of the Orlando, Fla., massacre, LGBTQ people and people of color are calling out, again: “Stop killing…

June 22, 2016

Vigils continue for Orlando

Vigils and other events to mourn the slain martyrs of Orlando have occurred since June 12 and are continuing to…

June 22, 2016

Orlando: ‘Our tears, a flood of resistance’

Every time an atrocity happens — like the massacre of little children at Sandy Hook or of nine African-American people…

June 21, 2016

Workers World Party election campaign underway

In front of Trump Tower in New York City on June 14, two days after the Orlando mass shootings, the…

June 21, 2016

Socialist election campaign of Workers World Party kicks off in North Carolina

“Prisoners cannot vote and they are dying in our local jails. Youth cannot vote and our schools are being underfunded.…

June 21, 2016

WWP campaign to confront Bradley Foundation in Wisconsin

Supporters of Workers World Party’s 2016 campaign with Monica Moorehead for president and Lamont Lilly for vice president will be…

June 21, 2016

Oakland, Calif., activists occupy City Hall to protest gentrification

At the culmination of a week of actions highlighting that Oakland, Calif., is losing thousands of families per month to…

June 21, 2016

50th anniversary of the Black Power slogan and its significance

On June 16, 1966, the newly elected chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame…

June 21, 2016

Major Tillery case appealed

The family and other supporters of Major Tillery, who has been in Pennsylvania prisons unjustly for over 30 years, gathered…

June 21, 2016