Editorials

Climate change is driving social change

The terrible news on unfolding climate change can have opposite effects on people: despair, lassitude and denial -- or angry…

March 29, 2019

In Brexit, workers’ struggles have no borders

The process of Britain leaving the European Union -- called Brexit -- has turned the politics of that country into…

March 20, 2019

Fighting Islamophobia worldwide is how to respond to the massacre in New Zealand

The world reverberated on March 15 to the horrifying news that 50 people had been murdered and scores wounded, some…

March 19, 2019

Int’l Working Women’s Day shows nothing stays the same

International Working Women’s Day, March 8, is celebrated in many countries to acknowledge past and present struggles for women’s equality…

March 12, 2019

The key to climate change

Almost a century and a half ago, Karl Marx’s closest collaborator, Frederick Engels, wrote about the degradation of the environment…

March 5, 2019

Trump’s Trojan horses got stuck in the mud!

When the U.S. McCarthyite-in-Chief said on Feb. 19, "The twilight hour of socialism has arrived,” the Venezuelan people answered, “Not…

February 26, 2019

WW editorial: Whose State of the Union?

The U.S. president’s annual State of the Union address to Congress has morphed from its more humble beginnings into a…

February 16, 2019

Jussie Smollett and the attack on queer people of color

Jussie Smollett, internationally known Black television star and LGBTQ+ activist, was beaten in Chicago in a horrific racist and homophobic…

February 4, 2019

Who’s really to blame

It is no exaggeration to say that the capitalist class in the U.S. has, for well more than a century,…

January 27, 2019

A message to the Jan. 19 marches: Building unity and solidarity

Women and all gender-oppressed people are under attack. From the federal government shutdown, hitting women workers hardest;  to the Education…

January 17, 2019