Detroit

Stop Veolia in Boston and Detroit!

The following message from the four fired leaders of United Steelworkers Local 8751 in Boston was delivered to the Detroit…

January 24, 2015

Autoworkers picket Detroit auto show

For the seventh year in a row, rank-and-file United Auto Workers members and supporters picketed outside the North American International…

January 15, 2015

How capitalism ravaged Detroit

Excerpt from talk by Jerry Goldberg at the national WWP conference in New York City, Nov. 15-16, 2014. If anyone…

January 8, 2015

Justice Department intervention no cure to cop terror

Over the last several years police departments known for using lethal force against oppressed peoples have faced civil rights investigations…

December 14, 2014

Rasmea Odeh fights jail, deportation

Nov. 10 — Rasmea Odeh was found guilty of one count of unlawful procurement of naturalization today after a short…

November 11, 2014

Benton Harbor, Mich., Civil Rights activist convicted by all-white jury

The Rev. Edward Pinkney was found guilty of five felony counts of forgery stemming from a recall campaign against Mayor…

November 7, 2014

Profit system spreads misery: Time to expose capitalism, fight for socialism

The time to openly attack and expose capitalism and advocate for its opposite, socialism, has not been this ripe since…

November 6, 2014

Rasmea Odeh under attack; Defend her Nov. 4 in Detroit!

Workers World received a statement from the Rasmea Defense Committee, which we publish here: Judge Gershwin Drain handed down a…

October 30, 2014

‘Water is not a right,’ says Detroit bankruptcy judge

Detroit, Sept. 29 — U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes ruled today to deny a moratorium on mass water shutoffs…

September 30, 2014

United Nations water rapporteurs to visit Detroit

United Nations special rapporteurs from Geneva “are coming [to Detroit] to conduct a ‘fact-finding’ mission relative to these mass water…

September 30, 2014