U.S. and Canada

Holiday gifts and the yet-to-be-won shorter work week

This article was originally published in Workers World in 2012. Since then, job-destroying technology is even more advanced and the…

December 14, 2020

Capitalist crimes against seniors in nursing homes

As we are hit by a second wave of the pandemic, the causes of the 266,000 U.S. deaths of COVID-19…

December 11, 2020

PDF of December 10 issue

Download the 12-page PDF. Capitalist COVID catastrophe FIGHT or DIE! Message from Peltier; Reparations now! Justice for Breonna denied again;…

December 10, 2020

Buffalo, N.Y.
Anti-racist protest opposes ‘Watchmen’ hate group

A group of antifascists and community members assembled Dec. 5 across the street from a park next to a low-income…

December 10, 2020

Scheduled federal executions infuriate activists

The outrage expressed by anti-death penalty activists was visceral as the news came out that Trump had authorized the federal…

December 9, 2020

The value of addicts’ lives

Philadelphia has the reputation of being a major heroin haven on the East Coast, with heroin of such high quality…

December 9, 2020

Capitalist COVID catastrophe
FIGHT or DIE!

It’s December 2020. The working class in the United States is facing a crisis of survival. It is the worst…

December 8, 2020

Kroger workers demand a just contract

Houston Essential workers at Kroger grocery stores in Houston have been campaigning for public support outside stores this fall. Kroger…

December 8, 2020

Kentucky board denies justice for Breonna Taylor

Almost nine months since the senseless murder of Breonna Taylor, the struggle to win justice remains elusive but goes on.…

December 7, 2020

China replacing U.S. as world’s leading scientific power

The first day of December saw two major scientific events: the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed, and China’s Chang’e…

December 7, 2020