Dianne Mathiowetz

Walter Rodney: Immersed in class struggle

The 16th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium was held March 22-23 at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library where the renowned…

March 27, 2019

One year later, Gaza’s Great March of Return

March 21 -- Ahmed Abu Artema, from his home in Gaza, sent out a January 2018 Facebook post asking: What…

March 25, 2019

In Atlanta, fighting racism with the KaeperBowl

Feb. 10 -- When the capitalist colossus known as the Super Bowl takes over a city like it did Feb.…

February 12, 2019

Voting rights battle in Georgia

Atlanta — Major newspapers and national TV news programs have carried stories about the close Georgia governor’s race between Demo­crat…

October 25, 2018

Solidarity underway with prison strikers

Atlanta organizations responded to a call from the Workers World Party branch here to work cooperatively in support of the…

August 14, 2018

Transgender activist wins asylum

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

June 4, 2018

BLM blocks streets over police killings

A bold Black Lives Matter march took Atlanta’s main downtown artery, Peachtree Street, on April 15 to demand justice for…

April 19, 2018

Workers mass in Memphis commemorate Dr. King and sanitation strikers

Memphis, Tenn., April 4 — Thousands of people from far and wide, including worker delegations, gathered here on the 50th…

April 10, 2018

No justice in 1946 racist lynching

The Atlanta Journal Constitution announced in an exclusive report Dec. 28 that the FBI had “quietly closed its investigation into…

January 4, 2018

Taking a knee against racism in Georgia

Atlanta, Oct. 22 — Five young Black women, students at Kennesaw State University, have ignited a struggle here against white…

October 26, 2017