Workers World West Virginia bureau

West Virginia for Palestine

A multinational and multigenerational crowd gathered at Haddad Park in Charleston, West Virginia, on June 8, to protest the ongoing…

June 10, 2024

Inflation Reduction Act increases Appalachian climate crisis

Charleston, West Virginia After an Aug. 7 Senate passage, the “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives…

August 25, 2022

Kentucky floods caused by capitalist greed

As of July 30, at least 25 people have been reported dead from the destructive flash flood in eastern Kentucky…

August 1, 2022

More struggle ahead as W.Va. education workers face setback

After two years of intense struggle against right-wing state officials, West Virginia education workers faced a temporary setback June 19.…

June 26, 2019

WV educators refuse to back down, once again

Following the successful defeat of the West Virginia omnibus education bill, SB 451, in February 2019, Senate Republicans called for…

June 7, 2019

West Virginia rank-and-file education workers block privatization

West Virginia educators walked out, again, on Feb. 19, in a reprise of their 2018 militancy. The statewide walkout was…

February 25, 2019

In West Virginia win, rank-and-file education workers block privatization

West Virginia educators walked out, again, on Feb. 19, in a reprise of their 2018 militancy. The statewide walkout was…

February 21, 2019

West Virginia education workers ready to walk out, again

Education workers in West Virginia are again in motion for their students and their jobs. In 2018 in all 55…

February 12, 2019

In Virginia and West Virginia, school workers on the move for public education

Updated Feb. 5. Following the Jan. 22 settlement between the Los Angeles school district and the United Teachers of Los…

February 5, 2019

Cop fired for not shooting Black man undergoing mental health crisis

By Benji Pyles and Jeremy Bauman Weirton, W.V. "[S]ociety is split into antagonistic, and, moreover, irreconcilably antagonistic classes, whose ‘self-acting’…

September 21, 2016