Editorials

Yale’s racist roots and reparations

The brutal murder of nine African Americans at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in June…

May 8, 2016

Ayotzinapa cover-up

The heart-stabbing news about Mexico reported in the U.S. media is written with an appropriate tone of shock and horror.…

April 29, 2016

Too big to fail?

“Too big to fail.” How often have we heard that recently? The Federal Reserve Board says that five U.S. banks…

April 24, 2016

WWP salutes Chicago teachers strike

Workers World Party’s 2016 Presidential Election Campaign released the following statement on April 1. On April 1, 25,000 members of…

April 5, 2016

Billionaires and the minimum wage

Ah, the contradictions of capitalism. You can’t get away from them. Capitalist bosses want to pay their workers the lowest…

March 31, 2016

First came the wars

Two items appeared in the news on the same day this month, March 22. One was that, finally, months after…

March 24, 2016

Why People’s Korea needs a strong defense

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has a right to respond to U.S. imperialism’s attempts to encircle it militarily and…

March 8, 2016

Women, struggle and socialism

Struggle. Solidarity. That’s the essence of International Women’s Day, as intended by its founders at the 1910 International Socialist Women’s…

March 1, 2016

Tear down the walls!

At last. After 43 years and 10 months banished to a 6-by-9-foot cell by Louisiana prison authorities, Albert Woodfox was…

February 24, 2016

Scalia, SCOTUS and democracy

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his reactionary, racist, anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-working class decisions, which he disguised as…

February 16, 2016