U.S. and Canada

Memoir of a midwife delivers wisdom, wit

Ellen Cohen, who delivered 1,400 babies over nearly three decades, has written an engaging, poignant memoir, “Laboring: Stories of a…

February 28, 2014

Dave Schechter remembered

Dave Schechter had two great loves in his life. One was his class: the workers and oppressed. This led him…

February 28, 2014

Workers assembly plans for spring actions

Baltimore -- The “We Deserve Better” Workers’ Assembly convened a very dynamic and enthusiastic regional workers speak-out on Feb. 22…

February 28, 2014

Broad backing for minimum wage raise

Low-wage workers are carrying out a determined and heroic struggle to force giant corporations like McDonalds, Starbucks, Walmart and others…

February 28, 2014

Documents unsealed for FBI raids on solidarity activists

The following is a statement issued by The Committee to Stop FBI Repression on the release of FBI documents which…

February 27, 2014

Chokwe Lumumba: ‘The people must decide’

Workers World was saddened to learn that Mayor Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Miss., died at the age of 66 on…

February 27, 2014

San Francisco solidarity with Korean workers’ strike

The Korean Consulate in San Francisco was the site of a militant demonstration in support of the Korean general strike…

February 27, 2014

UAW & VW: Class struggle versus class collaboration

Following the vote against union representation at Volkswagen’s plant in Tennessee, the United Auto Workers filed an appeal with the…

February 27, 2014

Philadelphia’s workers and oppressed denied education, jobs

Why does Philadelphia, a major center of university education in the U.S., have so much poverty? This city has the…

February 27, 2014

Pipeline activists to be sentenced

Three environmental activists will be sentenced by a Michigan judge March 5 after their Jan. 31 felony convictions for protesting…

February 27, 2014