Disability rights

VA boss slashes veterans’ benefits, cuts 80,000 jobs

The author is a transgender veteran, retired from the Veterans Administration. Doug Collins, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs…

March 10, 2025

Texas executes two people despite disabilities and innocence

Huntsville, Texas Within eight days in February, Texas executed two men, one innocent and the other disabled with serious mental…

February 21, 2025

Boston: Thousands denounce “billionaires’ coup”

Boston Nearly 2,000 people braved -10F windchill weather in Boston on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, to denounce what organizers termed…

February 17, 2025

Racist attacks on DEI will help escalate class struggle

Ever since Donald Trump issued an executive order to overturn DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) directives for governmental agencies, there…

February 10, 2025

Weaponizing DEI: Trump launches all-out war on workers and the oppressed

As soon as Donald Trump occupied the Oval Office again on Jan. 20, he did not waste any time before…

February 3, 2025

Penny verdict negates state messaging on mental health, encourages racist vigilante violence

On May 1, 2023, Jordan Neely was strangled to death in a New York City subway car. Yesterday, Dec. 9,…

December 13, 2024

International Day of Persons with Disabilities, program Sunday, Dec. 8

Sunday, December 8, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m. Eastern Email djrcwwp@workers.org for meeting ID, zoom link, one-tap mobile link, dial-in phone…

December 5, 2024

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