Human needs before profits

Gov’t shutdown a workers’ lockout

The following is excerpted from a talk given by Steve Millies at a Oct. 4 Workers World Party meeting in…

October 9, 2013

Health care for all? Catch-22 denies 8 million!

If you live in Texas and are one of the 1.5 million people who have low incomes and hoped to…

October 9, 2013

Workers Assemblies, Oct. 24 and the fight to raise workers’ wages

The following is taken from a talk by Sharon Black given at the Sept. 27 Workers World Party public forum…

October 6, 2013

Food stamps cut as hunger rises

Cupboards will be bare next year for nearly 4 million people in the United States if the bill cutting the…

October 3, 2013

Behind the New Haven rail fiasco

By a railroad worker Metro-North Railroad’s New Haven line, the busiest commuter line in the United States, came to a…

October 3, 2013

Detroit people’s assembly to challenge banks’ rule

Sept. 30 — Activists in this beleaguered city are in the final days of organizing for an International People’s Assembly…

October 2, 2013

Shutdown. Who suffers?

Unable or unwilling to reach an agreement to extend government spending, the U.S. Congress has provoked a government shutdown. It…

October 2, 2013

Rally against Milwaukee privatizing schools

Several hundred teachers, students, the Wisconsin AFL-CIO and other unions and community organizers marched Sept. 21 from the Milwaukee School…

September 27, 2013

Fed announcement hides bad economic prognosis

The Federal Reserve Bank’s announcement Sept. 18 surprised investors and many others and led to a quick rise in stock…

September 25, 2013

Of food stamps and a revolutionary life

This is a personal story about food stamps. When my stepfather, Vince Copeland, was at home and dying of cancer…

September 25, 2013