Editorials

Standing up to racist courts

In the pre-Civil War era, courts in the U.S. regularly gave legal cover to slave catchers to search across the…

July 1, 2013

WW salutes LGBTQ heroes B. Manning & CeCe McDonald

Pride annually honors and commemorates the 1969 Stonewall rebellion, when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, primarily people of color,…

June 26, 2013

Rosenbergs, Manning & Snowden

June 19 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassinations of Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg at Sing Sing prison in…

June 18, 2013

Apple bites workers at home & abroad

Workers and small business people complain a lot about taxes — and rightfully so. Too often, however, some especially in…

June 16, 2013

The Syrian pretext

The reactionary terrorist gangs trying to overturn the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad are near collapse after a military defeat…

June 15, 2013

Justice, not smears, for Trayvon Martin

George Zimmerman, the racist vigilante killer of Trayvon Martin, has launched a campaign through his lawyers to smear his victim.…

June 5, 2013

Gay scouts in the BSA

On May 23, 61 percent of 1,400 voting members approved a measure to allow openly gay youth to participate in…

May 30, 2013

U.S. hands off Syria, Venezuela!

Recent U.S. threats against Iran, Syria and, yes, Venezuela show that this time of capitalist economic crisis brings with it…

May 29, 2013

IRS: the real scandal

Republican politicians and reactionary media outlets have joined the ultrarightist Tea Party types in an all-out attack on the Internal…

May 23, 2013

‘Nakba’ means disaster, but not surrender

May 15 marks the 65th anniversary of the beginning of what Palestinians and their supporters call the Nakba, “the disaster,”…

May 15, 2013