Editorials

Congress fiddles while Zika looms

While the U.S. Congress votes hundreds of billions of dollars for military expansion, it is squeezing health programs vital to…

May 26, 2016

Obama’s visit to Hiroshima

President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima, Japan, on May 27 will be the first such visit by a U.S. president…

May 22, 2016

‘Solidarity Forever’ means in the bathroom, too!

Everywhere nowadays — on the car radio, the TV at the gym or CNN at home — really loud voices…

May 19, 2016

Elections and social change

The current presidential election campaign has certainly differed from any other within memory. First of all, the great energy and…

May 18, 2016

Solidarity with People’s Korea

There seems to be an unwritten law among the colonizers and imperialists that the peoples they have attacked the most…

May 11, 2016

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