U.S. and Canada

Wisconsin Prison authorities keep hunger strikers on brink of death

Special to Workers World from Waupun, Wis. August 22 -- According to a letter from hunger striker LaRon McKinley, the…

August 26, 2016

Capitalism threatens autoworkers’ jobs

“Constant revolutionizing of production,” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote in 1848, “uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty…

August 26, 2016

Philadelphia tribute to Black women killed by racism and sexism

Philadelphia Over 100 demonstrators gathered at North Broad and Cecil B. Moore Avenue near Temple University on Aug. 3 to…

August 26, 2016

Baltimore jury rejects cops’ story

A Baltimore jury heard the cry for justice from family and community in the case of 24-year-old Aaron Winston. A…

August 25, 2016

Atlanta police slay Black man in hail of bullets

Activists trying to bring to light the police killing of Jamarion Robinson marched on Aug. 19 to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters…

August 25, 2016

Native peoples block toxic oil pipeline

Aug. 23 — The start of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multi-state, 1,100-mile-long crude oil pipeline to be…

August 24, 2016

Boston salutes Black August

The Boston Branch of Workers World Party held “A Dialogue with Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party 2016 Presidential Candidate,” on…

August 24, 2016

Detroit bus drivers’ union protests ‘transit racism’

Detroit bus drivers, represented by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26, held a press conference on Aug. 17 to announce the…

August 24, 2016

U.S. prisons and the struggle against slave labor

The headline seemed to herald a new day and was reported by corporate media as breaking news: “Justice Department says…

August 23, 2016

Mississippi counties lose slave labor as prisoners are released

Mississippi's prison population, long ranked as one of the highest per capita in the U.S. and the world, has undergone…

August 23, 2016