U.S. and Canada

Workers’ solidarity with immigrants

While many powerful economic and political issues are currently driving immigration policy in this country, an outstanding one is racism.…

August 21, 2013

Real voices behind the 1963 March on Washington

August 28 is the 50th anniversary of that fateful 1963 day in Washington, D.C., when 300,000 people marched and rallied…

August 21, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 14

For women, the agricultural revolution was a counterrevolution How, in the view of 19th-century anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, did early…

August 21, 2013

Victory in keeping community hospitals in Brooklyn, N.Y., open

Responding to the pressure of a fairly militant coalition of unions — the New York State Nurses Association and SEIU1199…

August 20, 2013

Former death row inmate Kelvin X. Morris: Justice delayed is justice denied

According to the Pennsylvania Moratorium Coalition, a federal district court’s vacating of Kelvin X. Morris’s death sentence in July 2007…

August 19, 2013

Book Review: Beyond the Horse’s Eye

A science-fiction fantasy, LBGTQ love story for the 99 percent Troubled children often create imaginary friends and secret worlds to…

August 19, 2013

Class struggle versus class collaboration

The analysis below is based on a talk to the Aug. 8 New York branch meeting of Workers World Party…

August 18, 2013

New money buys old newspaper empire

The world of corporate media was shaken up Aug. 5 to learn that Jeff Bezos, the main owner of Amazon.com,…

August 18, 2013

Fracking pollutes Wind River Reservation

Pinedale, Wyo. — Wyoming is the least-populated state in the union, with a little more than half a million people.…

August 18, 2013

Philly schools may not open on time

Superintendent William Hite of the School District of Philadelphia caused quite a stir on Aug. 10. He said that because…

August 15, 2013