U.S. and Canada

The political, historical significance of Chokwe Lumumba mayoral win in Jackson, Miss.

The following article is based on a talk given at a June 14 Workers World Party forum in New York.…

June 25, 2013

Low-wage workers on the move

A Marxist approach to the problems of the working-class movement The following is based on a talk to a Workers…

June 25, 2013

Behind the stock market plunge

The stock market fell 4 percent on June 19 and 20 as the bankers and brokers rejected the optimistic economic…

June 24, 2013

War threat to Syria and Iran the focus of NYC forum

An extraordinary anti-war forum entitled “Syria & Iran: The Next War?” was held here June 10 at the Solidarity Center.…

June 24, 2013

Forum on ‘What’s at stake in Syria?’

During a week when the New York Times revealed on June 21 that weapons are being shipped from puppet-ruled Libya…

June 24, 2013

Justice for Ernest Duenez Jr.

By Gloria Verdieu and Terri Kay Manteca, Calif. -- Hundreds of supporters, friends and family from all over the state…

June 24, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 5

Promiscuous primates Did Bronislaw Malinowski’s conception of “a primeval and unchanging one-man, one-woman” marriage emerge 5, 6, 7 or 8…

June 24, 2013

Revolutionary poetry / part 2

showtime if you haven’t heard the call by now you aren’t ready. if you didn’t see those pigs murder that…

June 24, 2013

Black farmers’ lawsuit: Justice delayed is justice denied

African-American farmers won a landmark lawsuit in 1999 against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for racist discrimination in Pigford v.…

June 21, 2013

Deep education cuts protested in Philadelphia

Matching the loss of 3,859 jobs is the slashing of the city’s education budget that will force schools to open…

June 19, 2013