United Nations

Factors fueling the world’s solidarity with Gaza

African American diplomat Linda Thomas Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, arrived at the Security Council Oct. 18 dressed…

November 3, 2023

Mass anger in Haiti 

Millions of Haitians regularly don’t get enough to eat. They have access only to dirty, contaminated water. The turmoil of…

June 9, 2023

U.S. activists say: End criminal blockade of Cuba!

Demonstrations were held in Los Angeles; Phoenix; Minneapolis; Washington, D.C.; and other U.S. and Canadian cities to demand an end…

November 1, 2022

‘Locked up, unheard’

The New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement held a strong protest at Union Square on July 23. Led…

August 2, 2015

Tariq Aziz, former deputy prime minister of Iraq

Workers World publishes the following obituary for Tariq Aziz, written by two former United Nations humanitarian coordinators for Iraq who…

June 13, 2015

In Charleston, W.Va., thousands protest ‘right-to-work’ bill

Charleston, W.Va. -- An estimated 7,000 people showed up at the Capitol building in Charleston, W.Va., on March 7 to…

March 21, 2015

ALBA-TCP charts Ebola action plan

At the initiative of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, on Oct. 20 heads of state from the Bolivarian Alliance for the…

October 31, 2014

Stop the U.S. blockade of Cuba now!

U.S. imperialism remains unflinching in its campaign to crush the Cuban ­Revolution. In 2004, then Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama…

October 5, 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

People’s Climate March

The People’s Climate March, which organizers expect will attract 100,000 people, is set for Sept. 21 in New York City.…

September 5, 2014