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Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)

Taken from a March 27 audio column from prisonradio.org.  The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville,…

April 5, 2013

North Korea: ‘U.S. should ponder grave situation’

Editor’s note: Workers World reprints below an official statement from the Korean People’s Army on the dangerous situation created by…

April 4, 2013
Students organize to support Cuban FiveStudents organize to support Cuban Five

Students organize to support Cuban Five

New York — Students at Columbia University held an important forum on campus to build solidarity with the Cuban Five.…

April 4, 2013

French troops in Central African Republic during coup

A military coup on March 24 in the capital city of Bangui changed the government of the Central African Republic.…

April 4, 2013

U.S. secretly fuels Syria’s flames

While the Obama administration continues to claim that it is providing only “nonlethal” aid to the Syrian opposition, its role…

April 4, 2013

General estadounidense ‘predice’ problemas para Cuba y Venezuela

El jefe del Comando Sur de Estados Unidos, el general John Kelly, quien supervisa las fuerzas militares estadounidenses en América…

April 4, 2013

Not another war! Pentagon out of Korea

For a second month, tens of thousands of U.S. and south Korean troops are carrying out simulated assaults on the…

April 2, 2013

Bankers provoked Cyprus crisis

The European economic crisis has crashed down upon the small nation of Cyprus. A second “bailout” was announced on March…

April 1, 2013
What the Troika did to Cyprus: Robbing depositors & calling it a ‘rescue’What the Troika did to Cyprus: Robbing depositors & calling it a ‘rescue’

What the Troika did to Cyprus: Robbing depositors & calling it a ‘rescue’

Cyprus is a small island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with an economy valued at less than 1 percent…

April 1, 2013

Newly-elected Kenyan President forced to stand trial by the ICC

Known on the continent as the “African Criminal Court” due to its exclusive indictments, prosecution and persecution of African leaders,…

March 31, 2013