Editorials

Habitual hospital bombers

A fluke or a war crime? U.S. warplanes bombed and destroyed a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans…

October 18, 2015

Kim Davis, the pope and hope

There's been a hullabaloo about Pope Francis meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky official jailed for refusing marriage licenses to…

October 9, 2015

Mass killings: Ignoring the obvious

Many psychologists, politicians, reporters and educators are attempting to explain why the number of people who perish in mass killings…

October 6, 2015

Shinzo Abe, public enemy

Workers World stands in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated in Tokyo since late August…

October 2, 2015

Youth of color abused under capitalism

Ahmed Mohamed is a ninth-grader of Sudanese descent who attended MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas. When he brought a…

September 21, 2015

Racism and Black tennis players

The Public Broadcasting Service recently aired an “American Masters” documentary on Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis star to break the…

September 15, 2015

Behind the govt’s ‘rosy’ jobs report

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” wrote Mark Twain. The U.S. government issued its monthly…

September 7, 2015

Why Emmett Till’s life still matters

During the height of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the South,  activists like Jimmy Lee Jackson, Medgar Evers, Viola…

September 1, 2015

Migrant crisis in Europe: Who caused it?

Behind the horror stories about the treatment of migrants trying to reach Europe is the imperialist system of exploitation of…

August 27, 2015

Defend Planned Parenthood!

Amidst the ratcheted-up misogyny on display by the ranks of the Republican Party, the right wing has unleashed a full-out…

August 11, 2015