Maryland

On the picket line

Baltimore longshore workers strike Hundreds of members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333 voted to strike Oct. 16 over…

October 27, 2013

Why we fight for a $15 minimum wage

On Oct. 24, community activists, students, members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, labor unionists and underpaid workers from every…

October 23, 2013

Workers Assemblies, Oct. 24 and the fight to raise workers’ wages

The following is taken from a talk by Sharon Black given at the Sept. 27 Workers World Party public forum…

October 6, 2013

Baltimore workers assembly calls for nat’l day to raise workers’ wages

On Sept. 1, a cross section of workers, young and old, employed and unemployed, convened for a Workers’ Assembly in…

September 20, 2013

‘Dreamers’ sleep in Florida Capitol to fight for justice for Trayvon Martin

By Imani Henry and Scott Williams Tallahassee, Fla., July 28 — They came from all over: Florida, California, New Orleans,…

July 30, 2013

Alabama struggle defends voter rights

Selma, Ala. — The National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is in the forefront…

June 17, 2013

Striking Walmart workers, supporters converge on company headquarters

Walmart workers across the United States resumed their strike at the end of May and began caravaning toward Bentonville, Ark.,…

June 3, 2013

Poor People’s March says: Ignite class struggle

Washington, D.C. — The Poor People’s March began May 11 in Baltimore at the site of the police killing of…

May 15, 2013

Day 2: March arrives in D.C., sets new goals for struggle

Washington, D.C. — The second day of the Poor People’s March for Jobs and Justice, May 12, began with excitement as…

May 12, 2013

Day 1: Marchers defy police presence at Walmart

U.S. Route 1, south of Baltimore Within hours of the start of the Poor People’s Campaign and March, which headed…

May 11, 2013