New York City

New York City cemetery workers file federal lawsuit against racism

The following media statement was released March 11 by the workers involved. Four workers, activists in a campaign to eradicate…

March 14, 2013

Harriet Tubman and her role in the struggle against slavery

Excerpts taken from a talk given by Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March Movement leader and a representative of the International…

March 11, 2013

Obama’s second term: Which road to liberation?

These excerpts are from a Feb. 23 Workers World Party Black History Month Forum in New York City given by…

March 5, 2013

Hurricane Sandy, Snowstorm Nemo

Feb. 11 — As snow began appearing in the forecast and the intensity of the storm warnings grew, New York…

February 15, 2013

An insightful documentary on Mumia Abu-Jamal

An important film documentary about the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal premiered in New York City on Feb. 1. “Long Distance…

February 13, 2013

Activists denounce MTA’s union-busting tactics in NYC school bus strike

Protesters crashed the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority's first board meeting of the year in solidarity with the school bus…

February 5, 2013

Resistance proves irrepressible—‘Free CeCe!’

Help deliver peoples’ verdict, part 2 CeCe McDonald survived a racist, transphobic attack by a group of neofascists, who attacked…

February 2, 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