Michigan

Plans made to stop tax foreclosure tsunami in Detroit

A dynamic “Emergency People’s Assembly to Stop Tax Foreclosures” on March 14 planned a series of actions to demand a…

March 24, 2015

Black Women’s Lives Matter

The following article, slightly edited, is reprinted here courtesy of Red Flag, the publication of the militant youth group FIST…

February 28, 2015

Marriage equality movement progresses

Bulletin: As of Feb. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will not stay a federal court ruling ordering same-sex marriages to…

February 9, 2015

Detroit MLK Day rally highlights Selma, Ala.

This year’s “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rally and March” commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Selma campaign that created…

January 24, 2015

LGBTQ marriage equality fight moves ahead

For almost 400 years, since the first English settlers began stealing land from the original inhabitants of North America, legal…

January 19, 2015

Rev. Pinkney jailed for fighting racist power structure

St. Joseph, Mich. -- Another racist injustice has been committed. Here on Dec. 14, Berrien County Judge Sterling Schrock sentenced…

December 16, 2014

Legal update to #FreeRasmeaNow

Workers World publishes this release from the Rasmea Defense Committee, Nov. 28. Ever since her unjust conviction on Nov. 10,…

December 3, 2014

Retirees take brunt of cuts as judge approves Detroit bankruptcy

The “plan of adjustment” to end Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy means that city worker retirees shoulder virtually the entire burden…

November 11, 2014

Benton Harbor, Mich., Civil Rights activist convicted by all-white jury

The Rev. Edward Pinkney was found guilty of five felony counts of forgery stemming from a recall campaign against Mayor…

November 7, 2014

Racist injustice in Michigan

Workers World protests two government-inspired frameups taking place in Michigan this November and demand they be stopped immediately. One is…

November 6, 2014