After five years of occupation, this 2008 photo from Sadr City in Baghdad shows Iraqi children drinking water from these wrecked pipes. Cholera, a gastrointestinal disease, and typhoid, which had been virtually eradicated in Iraq by 1989, made a comeback under the Western imperialist occupation. Today, the electricity and water supply systems in Baghdad are in even worse condition than in 2008.
A couple million people in the Northeast U.S. have just experienced Superstorm Sandy and the collateral suffering produced by capitalist climate change and neglect of the infrastructure. The poorest and most oppressed have also received the least relief. This has placed them closer to the Iraqis, who have suffered for 22 years from the Pentagon’s direct destruction.
The following letter was signed by more than 30 organizations, including Workers World Party, International…
Dozens of people attended an event, held at New Canaan Baptist Church in Brooklyn on…
Boston Hundreds of pro-Palestine activists rallied on Jan. 20 at Parkman Bandstand on the Boston…
July 26 was the 57th anniversary of the murder of three Black teenagers by Detroit…
By Rémy Herrera From a speech by Rémy Herrera of the National Center of Scientific…
Minutes after the murder of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin said to a passerby that "he…