Editorials

U.S., EU, out of Ukraine!

The following is a Workers World Party statement on the crisis in Ukraine. U.S. and European Union imperialism have initiated…

February 21, 2014

More pro-war lies about Korea

Just a coincidence? Near the end of February, the U.S. and the regime in south Korea will begin joint military…

February 18, 2014

Global warning

Every year banks and corporations spend billions of dollars — wealth extracted from hundreds of ­millions of workers around the…

February 17, 2014

More on the wealth gap

An editorial in our last issue ­explained how a simple statistic arrived at in an Oxfam study on wealth illuminates…

February 8, 2014

The planet’s parasites

It should come as no surprise to any worker that the rich are getting richer, while the majority of people…

January 30, 2014

The low-wage spark

The struggle to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour, which is being embraced not only…

January 25, 2014

Class consciousness – of politicians, workers

Workers World founder and chairperson, Sam Marcy, wrote that “democracy is merely a form which hides the predatory class character…

January 17, 2014

Imperialists praise ‘butcher’ Sharon

More bully than soldier, Israeli’s Ariel Sharon, nicknamed both “the butcher” for slaughtering Palestinians and “the bulldozer” for destroying their…

January 14, 2014

Disasters and their causes

Syria. Libya. Iraq. South Sudan. Horror stories from these countries filled the international news as 2014 began. Humanitarian disasters. Ethnic…

January 10, 2014

The good news

The bad news is that capitalism is forcing more suffering on the workers and oppressed. Some 1.3 million jobless workers…

January 6, 2014