On the picket line

June 5, 2018

50,000 Las Vegas workers win with strike threat Some 99 percent of Culinary Workers Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165…

Transgender activist wins asylum

June 4, 2018

Estrella Sánchez, a Mexican transgender woman, emerged on May 22 from immigration court in the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin,…

LGBTQ communities win legal protection in Michigan

June 4, 2018

As of May 21, in time for a Pride Month celebration, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ people in…

Buffalo, N.Y., Pride Parade

June 4, 2018

Youth from Queers for Racial Justice and Workers World Party marched in the Pride Parade in Buffalo, N.Y., on June…

NFL owners ban players from taking a knee to protest police brutality

June 4, 2018

An overwhelming majority of the National Football League’s 32 CEOs voted on May 23 to ban peaceful protests by players…

Border Patrol murder denounced in the streets

June 4, 2018

Claudia Patricia Gómez González was en route from Guatemala to rejoin her boyfriend in Alexandria, Va., when U.S. Customs and…

Worker pressure forces Google to end Pentagon contract

June 4, 2018

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, made an internal announcement on June 1 stating — as reported by Gizmodo, the New York…

British imperialism, Israeli apartheid

June 3, 2018

British imperialism laid the groundwork and set the precedent for Israeli settler colonialism long before the official establishment of the…

French rulers tell youth: ‘Act your age and shut up!’

June 3, 2018

Paris, France After government employees, joined by railway workers and students, demonstrated here on May 22, police arrested nearly 100…

Oakland, Calif.: Radical Black woman activist runs for mayor

June 1, 2018

Oakland, Calif., May 22 — Workers World interviewed Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and executive director of the…