U.S. and Canada

LGBTQ communities win legal protection in Michigan

As of May 21, in time for a Pride Month celebration, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ people in…

June 4, 2018

Buffalo, N.Y., Pride Parade

Youth from Queers for Racial Justice and Workers World Party marched in the Pride Parade in Buffalo, N.Y., on June…

June 4, 2018

NFL owners ban players from taking a knee to protest police brutality

An overwhelming majority of the National Football League’s 32 CEOs voted on May 23 to ban peaceful protests by players…

June 4, 2018

Border Patrol murder denounced in the streets

Claudia Patricia Gómez González was en route from Guatemala to rejoin her boyfriend in Alexandria, Va., when U.S. Customs and…

June 4, 2018

Worker pressure forces Google to end Pentagon contract

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, made an internal announcement on June 1 stating — as reported by Gizmodo, the New York…

June 4, 2018

Oakland, Calif.: Radical Black woman activist runs for mayor

Oakland, Calif., May 22 — Workers World interviewed Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and executive director of the…

June 1, 2018

Karl Marx & the working-class struggle today

Introductory remarks given at the event “Marx@200: Class Struggle in the Age of Trump,” hosted by Workers World Party, on May…

June 1, 2018

‘Palestine will be free!’

Chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and “Israel, Israel, you shall learn, by the millions…

May 31, 2018

U.S. war on migrants accelerates

Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, an unarmed woman from Guatemala, was shot in the head and killed on May 23 by…

May 29, 2018

Trump administration attacks low-income women and workers

Between May 18 and 21, two arms of the Trump administration delivered a one-two punch. One knocked down poor women’s…

May 29, 2018