U.S. and Canada

‘Biden won’t save us!’

Chants of “Cops and Klan work hand-in-hand” and “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” filled the air outside Philadelphia…

January 11, 2021

Free Maroon! Jan. 18 day of actions

Prison abolitionists in several Northeast cities are organizing “Justice Is Dead” car caravans on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to…

January 11, 2021

Eleven Alabama prisoners begin hunger strike! 

Occupied Muscogee Creek land — Montgomery, Ala. With the announcement of the Alabama prison strike/30 Day Economic Blackout, 11 incarcerated…

January 8, 2021

The Pentagon, corporations and slave labor in U.S. prisons

This article was originally published in Workers World June 11, 2011. It is not only federal prisons that contract out…

January 8, 2021

Pa. prisoner on COVID crisis – Guards were the transmitters

Since Workers World received this letter, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has confirmed nearly 7,000 cases of COVID-19 among prisoners…

January 8, 2021

Long live the Haitian Revolution! 

January 1 marked the 217th year of independence for the Republic of Haiti. The Haitian Revolution was led by formerly…

January 7, 2021

Fascist coup NO! Workers power YES!

Workers World Party statement Wednesday, Jan. 6 — The coup attempt today in Washington, D.C., and the mobilization of a…

January 6, 2021

PDF of January 7 issue

Download the 12-page PDF. Alabama prisons: ON STRIKE! ‘Relief’ bill offers little; Outrage at year’s end; Workers as ‘contractors’; Massive…

January 6, 2021

Georgia: Big voter turnout ousts wealthy Republican senators

Atlanta Jan. 6 – Georgia voters made history on Jan. 5 by voting into the U.S. Senate Rev. Raphael Warnock,…

January 6, 2021

Racist police killings: Year ends on a note of outrage

Cleveland — Three days before Christmas, Andre Hill visited the home of a family friend on Dec. 22 to drop…

January 6, 2021