Hurricane Sandy

Workers World, IAC deliver aid to Occupy Sandy

New York — Members and supporters of Workers World Party and the International Action Center helped to deliver more than…

November 14, 2012

Sanitation and other public workers deserve support

By a New York City Sanitation Department Worker On top of sanitation workers laboring 12-hour workdays and seven-day workweeks, needed…

November 14, 2012

Hurricane Sandy, climate change and capitalist crisis

A crisis arising out of a major natural disaster tends to reveal a society’s strengths and weaknesses, values and priorities,…

November 8, 2012

Six hospital evacuations in NY-NJ

Capitalist priorities intensify storm crisis The storm that hit the U.S. East Coast Oct. 29 exposed the harm done by…

November 7, 2012

Native nations respond to Hurricane Sandy

Nov. 2 — “We know a tidal surge of about four to six feet came into the Reservation. We still…

November 7, 2012

Hurricane Sandy’s lesson: Profit system breeds disaster

Nov. 6 — A crisis arising out of a major natural disaster — itself rooted in climate change — tends…

November 7, 2012

New York’s railroad tunnels flooded for first time in a century

By a railroad worker Hurricane Sandy and capitalist disorganization have devastated railroads and transit lines serving New York and New…

November 5, 2012

Solidarity flows in Cuba after hurricane

Before laying waste to the Eastern U.S., Hurricane Sandy ripped through Caribbean islands, causing deaths in Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico,…

November 5, 2012

Workers clean up capitalist-made ‘super-storm’

New York — They are often unseen and unrecognized by the television cameras in the coverage of the devastation caused…

November 4, 2012

NYC Mayor Bloomberg talks big, but made little infrastructure progress

New York — At a news conference in 2009, New York City billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated that “planning for…

November 4, 2012