Xmas 1914: When rank and file imposed truce during imperialist war

December 16, 2014

The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise…

Unidad contra el racismo en protestas

December 16, 2014

El 8 de diciembre, las protestas en varias ciudades del país contra los asesinatos de personas negras por la policía…

Ramón Labañino Salazar: a prison visit with a Cuban hero

December 16, 2014

Ashland, Ky. -- We sat in the last three seats of the last neat row of red plastic chairs.  It…

Class struggle sharpens in Mexico, Puerto Rico

December 16, 2014

Two months after the disappearance of the 43 normalistas (education students) in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto finally visited…

The right of self-determination and the class struggle

December 15, 2014

Nov. 25, 1983 (reprinted from the Dec. 8, 1983 Workers World) Of all the great domestic political problems facing the…

Justice Department intervention no cure to cop terror

December 14, 2014

Over the last several years police departments known for using lethal force against oppressed peoples have faced civil rights investigations…

Why was DeAndre Joshua killed?

December 14, 2014

DeAndre Joshua was a 20-year-old Black man who lived in Ferguson, Mo. He worked the night shift at Walmart. He…

Anti-abortion laws used to deny rights of pregnant women

December 14, 2014

A controversial issue raised in the Nov. 4 election was “personhood” — whether fertilized eggs should be defined as persons,…

“Kill the Messenger” – Gary Webb told the truth

December 14, 2014

Gary Webb told the truth about CIA-backed contra terrorists selling drugs to finance their dirty war against Nicaragua in the…

Tribute to Leslie Feinberg

December 14, 2014

She brought ‘trans’ into labor’s vocabulary In 1895, the year that Frederick Engels died, a 25-year-old V.I. Lenin wrote a…