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To a socialist future/Build Workers World

Workers World newspaper’s articles and editorials analyze major global and U.S. developments, always with an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist perspective. Our pages…

January 28, 2022

The ‘next Cuba’ will not be colonized

The following, lightly edited article first appeared in Resumen Latinoamericano — English Jan. 18, 2022. By Pedro Jorge Velázquez  There…

January 28, 2022

Time for justice / Urgent need for change in Pennsylvania sentencing system

The writer is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania’s SCI Coal Township. The Families Against Mandatory Minimum (FAMM) report points out the…

January 28, 2022

‘Sir Sidney Poitier’

The following is a lightly edited commentary. For nearly a century, Sir Sidney Poitier lived and worked in the United…

January 28, 2022

PDF of January 27 issue

Download the PDF. In the spirit of MLKOrganize the South! U.S. hands off Ukraine! Cops charged in child’s death Fight…

January 27, 2022

Un año después del ataque fascista: El capital y el Capitolio

6 de enero de 2021. Esta fecha está grabada en nuestra psique colectiva como el día en que una turba…

January 26, 2022

In Virginia, workers honor Dr. King, rally for collective bargaining

On Jan. 18, the newly formed Virginia Beach City Workers Union, UE Local 111, and faith community supporters rallied before…

January 25, 2022

COVID-19 and the prison abolition movement

The current spike in COVID-19 infections among the incarcerated in prisons, jails and detention centers is not only alarming and…

January 25, 2022

OSHA, SCOTUS y COVID-19

Cada semana surgen nuevas evidencias de que las instituciones capitalistas estadounidenses gestionan mal la sociedad y sabotean cualquier acción que…

January 25, 2022

Theodore Roosevelt statue comes down

Over two long January nights — to avoid disrupting traffic and endangering pedestrians — an abhorrent statue of Theodore Roosevelt…

January 24, 2022