Disability rights

Disability rights are workers rights!

For the last few years, the monthly Second Sunday Dialogue public meetings of the Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of…

November 16, 2024

Disability rights groups protest at ‘School of Shock’

The Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party, an official partner of the Massachusetts Stop the Shock Coalition,…

October 16, 2024

No pride in genocide: Disability rights activists demand justice for Palestine

Somerville, Massachusetts — Dozens of disability justice and pro-Palestine activists gathered outside Somerville City Hall, on July 11 to demand…

July 16, 2024

<span class="streamer">AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power</span><br> Militant resistance during the AIDS crisis

“ACT UP! Fight back! Fight AIDS!” These words were first uttered in March of 1987, by the organization ACT UP…

March 25, 2024

People with disabilities suffer extreme abuse by prison-industrial complex

Disabilities. Some people are born with them; others acquire them as they grow older. Unless one is wealthy or has…

March 18, 2024

Politicians attack harm reduction programs

It’s 2024 and people are still buying into anti-addict, anti-houseless politics in the age of the opioid epidemic and record…

February 26, 2024

Syringe Service Programs – an urgent need

In the early 1980s, an unknown disease was menacing the drug user communities in urban areas on both the East…

February 19, 2024

Pennsylvania prison bans WW article on disability struggles

A Workers World article featuring an incarcerated person’s struggles for disability rights is being denied entry into the Pennsylvania State…

February 3, 2024

Hands off the Drug User Liberation Front!

On Oct. 25, 2023, the revolutionary group Drug User Liberation Front experienced severe repression from the Canadian state. This group,…

January 22, 2024

Fighting for disability rights behind bars

By Billy Rinick and Joe Piette “The disproportionate incarceration of people with disabilities in the United States is a serious…

January 15, 2024