Detroit mass meeting holds banks accountable for city’s financial ruin

May 9, 2013

Leading community organizers in the Detroit area addressed a standing- room-only audience at Central United Methodist Church on May 4…

Foreclosure defense movement stalls evictions

May 9, 2013

Coldwater, Mich., a town of 10,000 in the western half of the state, is no place one would expect to…

Postal workers’ struggle spreads across the world

May 9, 2013

U.S. Postal Service clerks, carriers, mail handlers and drivers have a lot in common with other postal workers in the…

First Jackie Robinson; now Jason Collins

May 9, 2013

When the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League…

Cuba’s Mariela Castro receives LGBT Equality Award

May 9, 2013

Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy…

The Lessons of Temple U.

May 9, 2013

Taken from a April 18, 2013, column at prisonradio.org. The incipient, yet growing protests at Philadelphia’s Temple University around the…

Poor People’s March highlights police terror

May 8, 2013

A recent report from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement concludes that Black people in the U.S. face a crisis in…

‘Why we are marching’

May 8, 2013

Workers World Editor Deirdre Griswold spoke with women in three cities who will be participating in the Poor People’s March…

Workers worldwide fight austerity, low wages

May 8, 2013

[gallery type="thumbnails" ids="8711,8710,8709,8708,8707,8706,8705,8704"] Millions marched in 80 countries to commemorate International Workers Day — May Day. They united in protest…

Poor People‘s March for jobs, justice

May 7, 2013

‘Ignite revolution Dr. King called for’ The following press statement was released by Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore chapter of…