Editorials

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

Why not amnesty here?

In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an amnesty for some 20,000 prisoners — including the Greenpeace protesters, the Pussy…

January 1, 2014

Defend socialist Korea!

On Dec. 13, the Korean Central News Agency, an official voice of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, reported that…

December 17, 2013

No to Pentagon pressure on China

All over the world, but especially in the East Asia and Pacific region, people are worried about a deliberate provocation…

November 30, 2013

Significance of Nat’l Day of Mourning

The 44th commemoration of the National Day of Mourning on Nov. 28 in Plymouth, Mass., will mark 13,809 days of…

November 28, 2013