A literal matter of history

August 5, 2020

Printed from a July 27 audio column posted on prisonradio.org.  When I was a young man — a boy really…

Boston school workers blast ‘reopening plans’

August 4, 2020

By Steve Gillis, Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751 and G. Lechat, Harvard TPS Coalition Boston Public School nurses, teachers and…

Struggle makes headway, but fight far from over in Portland, Ore.

August 4, 2020

When federal officers entered Portland, Ore., over the July 4 weekend and began to confront Black Lives Matter protesters, it…

Republicans sabotage as negotiations delay pandemic relief package

August 4, 2020

Aug. 3 — Talks between the Republican administration and its majority Republican Senate with the Democratic Party House and Senate…

The virus, the GDP and the profit motive

August 4, 2020

“The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday,” the New York Times wrote July 30,  “as…

Brazil: From pandemic to genocide

August 4, 2020

Since the pandemic began, Brazilians have suffered 93,000 deaths and 2.7 million infections — the second highest number of infections…

50 years of struggle from Black August to Black Lives Matter Movement – a WW commentary

August 3, 2020

This Aug. 7 marks the 50th anniversary of the heroic attempt by Jonathan Jackson, younger brother of George Jackson, to…

Disability movement is ‘part of the global working class’

August 3, 2020

by Kristen Turgeon The following slightly edited remarks were made by Kristen Turgeon from the Boston branch of Workers World…

#SEIUDroptheCops makes demands

August 3, 2020

Following weeks of intensive internal organizing, research and analysis, the (Service Employees) #SEIUDropTheCops campaign — a rank-and-file-led initiative with SEIU…

‘Hero pay, not zero pay!’

August 3, 2020

Essential workers protested July 30 in a flash-mob protest in front of a newly remodeled Tops Market, a supermarket chain…