U.S. and Canada

Emergency manager selected to kill jobs

Since March 25, the city of Detroit has been run by an unelected, 1%-beholden supreme dictator. On that day the…

May 2, 2013

Attacks on Social Security mean growing poverty for retirees, elderly

The Obama administration is proposing Social Security cuts totaling more than $127 billion over the next decade. Congress and politicians…

May 2, 2013

NYC teachers, students say testing unfair

Over 500 parents and teachers, children and students, and their supporters gathered April 26 in front of Tweed Courthouse, the…

May 2, 2013

On the picket line

Workers Memorial Day, April 28 Workers Memorial Day, celebrated internationally on April 28 since 1984, has taken on heart-wrenching importance…

May 2, 2013

Hospitals deport undocumented patients

In 2010, Quelino Ojeda Jiménez was working atop a building at Chicago’s Midway Airport when he fell to the ground…

May 1, 2013

PayPal blocks funds earmarked for Cuban 5 mobilization

Issued by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five on April 26. One day after a matching-fund…

May 1, 2013

Lynne Stewart tells supporters to keep up pressure for release

On April 26, the warden at Carswell Federal Medical Center told political prisoner Lynne Stewart that he had passed her…

May 1, 2013

Dissecting capitalist crisis

Fred Goldstein, author of the recently published work “Capitalism at a Dead End” and a member of the Secretariat of…

May 1, 2013

Plans for May Day 2013 in New York

A number of immigrant, labor and progressive organizations joined the May 1 Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights at an April…

April 29, 2013

Marxism, capitalism and the environment

Below is a talk on Marxism and the environment given by Workers World Editor Deirdre Griswold to a Workers World…

April 29, 2013