U.S. and Canada

Open letter to the AFL-CIO leaders — Oppose war on Syria

The following is an open letter from the first secretary of Workers World Party, Larry Holmes, written to the AFL-CIO…

September 6, 2013

Women speak out against U.S. intervention in Syria

The following is a statement from the International Women’s Alliance, of which the Women's Fightback Network, New York Chapter, is…

September 6, 2013

Will changes in AFL-CIO aid workers’ struggles?

Taken from a speech by Workers World Party First Secretary Larry Holmes to a WWP forum in New York City…

September 5, 2013

With one-day strike for $15 an hour, fast-food workers shut it down!

Fast-food workers turned off the grills, closed the cash registers and walked off their jobs on Aug. 29 to demand…

September 5, 2013

On the picket line

Walmart warehouse workers win raises, benefits After an unrelenting two-year struggle, the 75 workers at the Walmart warehouse in Mira…

September 5, 2013

Peoples Power Assemblies go national, build unity against racism, poverty and war

Events were held around the country on Aug. 28, the date of the racist murder of Emmett Till in 1955…

September 4, 2013

The struggle continues for women’s equality

The date of Aug. 26 was named Women’s Equality Day in 1971 because that’s the day in 1920 when women,…

September 4, 2013

Support for California prison hunger strike

At a short rally before the march to Oakland’s city jail, Janetta Johnson, representing the Trans GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project,…

September 4, 2013

No attack on Syria!

Sept. 2 — Anti-war, anti-imperialist and Syrian-American organizations inside the U.S. all see the coming week as the last chance…

September 3, 2013

Coast-to-coast protests hit U.S. plans to attack Syria

On Aug. 28, with Washington, London and Paris apparently on the verge of opening up another very unpopular and dangerous…

September 3, 2013