Racism and Self-Determination

Life expectancy drop exposes racism, class bias

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released “provisional life expectancy estimates” for the U.S. based on provisional mortality data…

July 27, 2021

Finally the racist baseball team name and mascot are leaving Cleveland

Cleveland The big front page news July 24 was the new name of the city’s Major League Baseball team: the…

July 26, 2021

Black August: A tribute to freedom fighters

The following slightly edited article was first published in August 2013. Lilly ran as Workers World Party’s candidate for vice…

July 23, 2021

How to defend the right to vote

The struggle for the bourgeois democratic right to one person, one vote still continues in the U.S., the most powerful…

July 20, 2021

Despite solitary and banning, resistance continues

Incarcerated people depend on their voices being heard outside the walls for their grievances against prison officials to be effective…

July 20, 2021

U.S. invades and occupies Haiti − in 1915

This slightly edited article was originally published in Workers World/Mundo Obrero, August 3, 2015. The United States began its military…

July 15, 2021

After 64-day hunger strike, Palestinian activist released 

Ghandafar Abu Atwan, a 28-year-old Palestinian man, has finally been released after a 64-day hunger strike. He was protesting his…

July 15, 2021

Hunger strikers in Pennsylvania solitary win demands

Philadelphia Prisoners in solitary confinement who went on a hunger strike June 23 in the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix…

July 15, 2021

<span class="streamer2">No ‘middle ground’</span><br />Abolish the death penalty!

President Biden is under intense pressure from activists around the country to abolish the federal death penalty after a state-sanctioned…

July 14, 2021

Unequal justice in Philadelphia

Philadelphia As protests over the police murder of George Floyd engulfed the U.S. in spring 2020, in Philadelphia two polar-opposite…

July 14, 2021