Tariq Aziz, former deputy prime minister of Iraq

June 13, 2015

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

African-American and Palestine liberation

June 13, 2015

A series of opinion articles have been published recently in Newsweek contradictorily condemning and praising the Barack Obama administration’s efforts…

Assata Shakur mural removed

June 13, 2015

A mural depicting Assata Shakur was removed in May by Marquette University officials after an unrelenting right-wing campaign. Shakur, a…

Workers World and FIST at Left Forum

June 13, 2015

More than 1,300 speakers and thousands of activists and academics met in New York City from May 29 through May…

Oil strike not quite over

June 11, 2015

After four months on the picket line, workers at the BP Husky refinery in Toledo, Ohio, are starting to return…

On the picket line

June 11, 2015

Thousands protest N.J. pension fund cuts Some 4,000 members of the Communications Workers and other public sector unions turned out…

Walk-ins protest proposed education cuts

June 11, 2015

Hundreds of educators, staff, parents, students and community supporters participated in walk-ins at 17 Milwaukee public schools on June 5.…

Down with Greek austerity. Let the bankers pay!

June 10, 2015

Since February, shortly after the electoral bloc Syriza won Greece’s national elections on an anti-austerity program, negotiations have been going…

Criminal blockade of Cuba still in force

June 10, 2015

Ads and articles promoting travel to Cuba seem to be everywhere. Didn’t President Barack Obama announce a new relationship with…

The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears

June 10, 2015

A grassroots campaign to remove President Andrew Jackson’s portrait from the $20 bill is receiving some attention. Why Jackson especially?…