New York

New York retail workers rally for justice

As New York City’s working class takes on more defense of working conditions for restaurant, grocery, airline, car wash, fast…

August 7, 2014

International march for Gaza called

A coalition of organizations that support Palestinian rights have called for an “International March to the United Nations” meeting at…

August 2, 2014

TAKE ACTION: Ukrainian anti-fascist activist kidnapped

June 24 — Maria Matyushenko, an activist with the anti-fascist organization Union Borotba (Struggle), was kidnapped and her apartment ransacked…

June 24, 2014

Elombe Brath, a fighter for African liberation

Elombe Brath, a world-renown Pan-Africanist who promoted the national liberation of all African people from racism, neo-colonialism and imperialism, died…

May 27, 2014

On the picket line

Northwest longshore workers struggle The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose members operate port terminals and shipping lines on 29…

May 26, 2014

New York state: ‘No more prisons!’

Albany, N.Y. -- Over 600 people demonstrated at a statewide mobilization against mass incarceration in Albany, N.Y., on May 5.…

May 19, 2014

McDonald’s icon busted for wage theft

New York — A large group of fast-food workers and their supporters held a flash protest on March 18 in…

March 28, 2014

Make history: Build Workers World

March is Women’s History Month, when Workers World makes a special effort to cover women’s issues, especially struggles that have…

March 8, 2014

Bury Jim Crow! Organize the South!

The following excerpted remarks were made by Eva Panjwani, a leading member of the Durham, N.C., branch of Workers World…

March 7, 2014

‘Money for jobs, not fascist mobs!’

Anti-war activists rallied in New York’s Times Square in the bitter cold on Feb. 27 to protest the U.S. and…

March 4, 2014