Disability rights

Feds declare health emergency over, but COVID-19 still ravages Disability community

March 5, 2023 The Biden administration announced Jan. 30 its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency…

March 8, 2023

Important win in the opioid crisis

Opioid addiction — opioid-use disorder — is a disease, a mental illness, a medical condition that can be treated by…

February 27, 2023

Family of disabled man killed by police files historic ADA lawsuit

Matthew Zadok Williams, 35 years old, was experiencing a mental health breakdown April 12, 2021, at his home of five…

February 22, 2023

Disabled people are proletarians worldwide

Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar “Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles…

February 9, 2023

U.N. rocked by International Day of Persons with Disabilities 

On Dec. 2, the eve of the 30th annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities, disabled activists and artists and…

December 16, 2022

Long COVID: a public health catastrophe

On Sept. 18, President Joe Biden declared: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still…

December 15, 2022

Disability justice is a right − and a demand!

Since its founding in 1959, Workers World Party has had a Disability Justice and Rights Caucus. From its beginning there…

November 8, 2022

Queen City Workers’ Center fights for tenant’s rights

By Lydian Standeford Buffalo For two months, fair housing activists with the Queen City Workers’ Center (QCWC) have stood up…

September 14, 2022

Louisiana case shows: the human toll of abortion bans

Nancy Davis has been confronted by a terrible dilemma. She and her fiancé, Shedrick Cole, who have three children, wanted…

August 29, 2022

Safe consumption sites: End the war on people who use drugs!

New York City 2020. In the shadow of the COVID-19 epidemic are two others: the opioid and overdose epidemics. Since…

July 18, 2022