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Solidarity messages to Workers World Party/Mundo Obrero

The following are excerpts from written solidarity messages to the Workers World Party 56th national conference, held Nov. 15-16 in…

November 22, 2014

Tasks of communists in Ukraine, Donbass and the West

Interview with Borotba leader Victor Shapinov, part 5 Simferopol, Crimea — Workers World has conducted an extensive interview with Victor…

November 22, 2014

Occupation is responsible for escalation in Jerusalem

The following is a statement from the website of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in the aftermath…

November 21, 2014

Protests over police violence sweep France

Rémi Fraisse was killed by an “offensive grenade” used by French cops Oct. 26 during a protest against a dam…

November 20, 2014

Ebola, poverty & reparations

The latest news about Ebola is both reassuring and tragic. On the hopeful side, it confirms that this deadly virus…

November 16, 2014

Belgium: 150,000 march against austerity

Workers in Belgium showed that they had had enough. The latest cuts to their living standards brought them out in…

November 16, 2014

German rail workers strike

The German train drivers’ union, the GDL, struck the German railroad company Deutsche Bahn on Nov. 6 for the third…

November 16, 2014

On elections in Donestsk and Lugansk

On Nov. 2, against the backdrop of the U.S. and NATO’s provocative “Iron Sword” war games in nearby Lithuania, residents…

November 16, 2014

U.S. to double troops in Iraq

President Barack Obama more than doubled U.S. participation in the new war on Iraq on Nov. 7 by ordering an…

November 16, 2014

The disappeared ones

Taken from an Oct. 31 audio column from prisonradio.org In Mexico, fires are burning. I mean this metaphorically and literally.…

November 14, 2014