U.S. and Canada

Socialism key to Cuba’s love for human life

  Excerpts from a talk by LeiLani Dowell, WW managing editor, at the Nov. 17-18, 2012, Workers World Party conference…

January 7, 2013

On the picket line

Chicago Teachers Union charges racial discrimination In a federal lawsuit filed Dec. 26, the Chicago Teachers Union and three teachers…

January 7, 2013

East Coast ports strike looms — Feb. 6 deadline

Just days before a potential strike by more than 14,500 workers at 14 ports along the Eastern U.S. and the…

January 4, 2013

Pacific Northwest longshore workers reject cutbacks

International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals in the Pacific Northwest continue to work at terminals owned by the Grain Handlers…

January 4, 2013

Chicago teachers’ union points the way

The teachers’ strike last September was a high-water mark in the class struggle in Chicago, and it shows in which…

January 4, 2013

Mumia Abu-Jamal honors Ramsey Clark & the Int’l Action Center

The following speech was recorded on Dec. 30, 2012, by Noelle Hanrahhan at prisonradio.org for the Jan. 12 gala dinner…

January 4, 2013

Fracking, global warming & capitalism

Taken from a talk by Betsey Piette, a Workers World Party organizer from Philadelphia, at the Nov. 17-18 WWP national…

January 4, 2013

The storm and the state

Taken from a talk by Imani Keith Henry, a Workers World Party organizer in New York City, at the Nov.…

January 4, 2013

Rally protests murders of Black & Brown youth

Alan Blueford would have turned 19 on Dec. 20, but instead he was killed by Oakland, Calif., police last May…

January 3, 2013

Hurricane Sandy still impacts workers & poor

The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut came up with a $60 billion figure for the damage Hurricane…

January 3, 2013