Human needs before profits

Poor People’s March says: Ignite class struggle

Washington, D.C. — The Poor People’s March began May 11 in Baltimore at the site of the police killing of…

May 15, 2013

Day 2: March arrives in D.C., sets new goals for struggle

Washington, D.C. — The second day of the Poor People’s March for Jobs and Justice, May 12, began with excitement as…

May 12, 2013

Day 1: Marchers defy police presence at Walmart

U.S. Route 1, south of Baltimore Within hours of the start of the Poor People’s Campaign and March, which headed…

May 11, 2013

WWP’s Goldstein dissects the capitalist crisis

Fred Goldstein, author of the recently published work “Capitalism at a Dead End” and a member of the Secretariat of…

May 11, 2013

March for jobs and justice from Baltimore to D.C. May 11-12

The following is a May 9 national press release.   Baltimore, Md. — On Saturday, May 11, 2013, community, civil…

May 9, 2013

Detroit mass meeting holds banks accountable for city’s financial ruin

Leading community organizers in the Detroit area addressed a standing- room-only audience at Central United Methodist Church on May 4…

May 9, 2013

Foreclosure defense movement stalls evictions

Coldwater, Mich., a town of 10,000 in the western half of the state, is no place one would expect to…

May 9, 2013

Detroit residents displaced by corporate interests

Detroit corporations and banks are driving more working-class, poor and nationally oppressed people out of the city’s downtown area. Government…

May 2, 2013

Emergency manager selected to kill jobs

Since March 25, the city of Detroit has been run by an unelected, 1%-beholden supreme dictator. On that day the…

May 2, 2013

Attacks on Social Security mean growing poverty for retirees, elderly

The Obama administration is proposing Social Security cuts totaling more than $127 billion over the next decade. Congress and politicians…

May 2, 2013