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Elombe Brath, a fighter for African liberation

Elombe Brath, a world-renown Pan-Africanist who promoted the national liberation of all African people from racism, neo-colonialism and imperialism, died…

May 27, 2014

On the picket line

Northwest longshore workers struggle The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose members operate port terminals and shipping lines on 29…

May 26, 2014

New York state: ‘No more prisons!’

Albany, N.Y. -- Over 600 people demonstrated at a statewide mobilization against mass incarceration in Albany, N.Y., on May 5.…

May 19, 2014

McDonald’s icon busted for wage theft

New York — A large group of fast-food workers and their supporters held a flash protest on March 18 in…

March 28, 2014

Make history: Build Workers World

March is Women’s History Month, when Workers World makes a special effort to cover women’s issues, especially struggles that have…

March 8, 2014

Bury Jim Crow! Organize the South!

The following excerpted remarks were made by Eva Panjwani, a leading member of the Durham, N.C., branch of Workers World…

March 7, 2014

‘Money for jobs, not fascist mobs!’

Anti-war activists rallied in New York’s Times Square in the bitter cold on Feb. 27 to protest the U.S. and…

March 4, 2014

Memoir of a midwife delivers wisdom, wit

Ellen Cohen, who delivered 1,400 babies over nearly three decades, has written an engaging, poignant memoir, “Laboring: Stories of a…

February 28, 2014

Russell Maroon Shoats

Any victory, big or small, for the working class and oppressed population, is a step in the right direction. Even…

February 24, 2014

Trans community: ‘Health care now’

Chanting “Transphobia is bad medicine,” dozens of transgender activists and allies rallied on Valentine’s Day outside the offices of the…

February 21, 2014