Poverty

Haiti under the gun

In the current situation in Haiti, organized groups — invariably called gangs by the bourgeois media — often have more…

July 25, 2022

Haiti needs reparations, not sanctions

This slightly edited article first appeared in Workers World on July 17, 2003. The writer, Pat Chin, was a contributing…

May 30, 2022

If you care about Ukraine – disband NATO

Long before the Feb. 24 Russian intervention, the 2014 U.S.-backed fascist coup regime had reduced Ukraine to the poorest country,…

March 17, 2022

Basic facts about Greece

The austerity program imposed on Greece in 2010 by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary…

February 4, 2015

Fifty years after ‘war on poverty,’ class divisions widen

Some five decades after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” class divisions inside the U.S. are widening.…

February 14, 2014

Poverty rising

New figures show capitalism can’t meet people’s needs An Associated Press investigation has revealed that poverty is increasing at a…

August 6, 2012

Protests hit poverty wages

As part of a national day of action against poverty wages, over a hundred low-wage workers and their supporters took…

August 1, 2012