Widespread solidarity with Gaza shown across U.S.

July 14, 2014

July 14 — As the Israeli bombing assault murdered what is now approaching 200 people in Gaza, about three-quarters of…

Urgent call from Gaza

July 14, 2014

We use our editorial space this week to reprint portions of a June 12 “Urgent call from Gaza civil society,”…

Long after explosion, East Harlem tenants fight on

July 14, 2014

New York, July 8 — More than four months after the gas explosion in East Harlem, tenants are still suffering…

Lac-Mégantic blast victims remembered

July 13, 2014

Three hundred people gathered July 6 at the Ezra Prentice Basketball Court in South Albany, N.Y., a poor, predominantly Black…

Oil trains seen as ‘mile-long bombs’

July 13, 2014

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

Detroit protesters arrested for blocking water-shutoff trucks

July 11, 2014

July 10 — Detroit activists concerned about the massive water shutoffs across this economically devastated city blocked entrances to the…

Dissecting Ukraine’s ‘democracy’: Poroshenko and the neo-Nazis

July 11, 2014

Victor Shapinov of the Ukrainian Marxist organization Union Borotba (Struggle) here analyzes the forces at work behind the announcement by…

Interview with Borotba — ‘They hate us because we are communists’

July 11, 2014

Workers World is publishing parts of this interview by Andrej Hunko, who is a member of the German Bundestag (Parliament)…

100 years later — what caused World War I?

July 11, 2014

On June 28 just a century ago, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old patriot from the oppressed nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, assassinated Archduke Ferdinand…

Behind the Supreme Court’s reactionary rulings

July 11, 2014

The Supreme Court finished its spring term with a reactionary siege on women’s and workers’ rights. The court assailed women’s…