Texas

Oil trains seen as ‘mile-long bombs’

A runaway train carrying Bakken formation crude oil derailed last year on July 6. The resulting explosion killed 47 people…

July 13, 2014

Remembering Juneteenth, police victims

A large crowd gathered June 19 on the central plaza of the downtown cathedral in San Antonio, Texas, to celebrate…

June 26, 2014

How Voting Rights Act was set back

At his Escambia County polling site on June 3, 93-year-old African-American Willie Mims was disenfranchised by Alabama's strict new voter…

June 24, 2014

Niñas/os migrantes encarcelados en la frontera

En respuesta a la oleada de noticias sobre miles de niñas/os migrantes atrapados por la Seguridad Nacional (DHS), el Procurador…

June 23, 2014

Ejecución en Oklahoma expone pena de muerte: Cruel, pero usual

El ataque cardíaco que mató al preso condenado a muerte Clayton Lockett el 29 de abril, después de que el…

May 14, 2014

Crisis for women in Texas

A health care crisis for women of reproductive age has exploded in Texas as a restrictive law passed last year…

March 24, 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

After 41 years in solitary, free Albert Woodfox NOW!

By Anne Pruden and Gloria Rubac New Orleans, Jan. 7 — Angola 3 supporters, numbering over 100, braved the unusual,…

January 16, 2014

Right to abortion is denied in Texas, affirmed in Albuquerque

Two polar opposite events affecting women’s right to choose abortion took place on Nov. 19. One was a 5 to 4…

November 26, 2013

Energy industry wants government to rescue its profits

For nearly a decade, the natural gas industry has drained valuable water resources, poisoned the land with dangerous chemicals, released…

November 24, 2013