May Day being commemorated in the U.S.

A number of U.S. cities are gearing up for May Day (International Workers Day) 2023 with actions that highlight labor struggles, especially those involving young workers organizing at Starbucks and Amazon. But May Day is about much more than workers who are carrying out dynamic organizing campaigns. It encompasses the . . .

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Fred Goldstein, 1938-2023, Marxist writer and fighter

Fred Goldstein, who spent close to six decades as an organizer, educator, writer and thinker building Workers World Party, died in New York City on April 11 after a long illness. He was 84. Fred Goldstein. WW Photo In the decades following the counterrevolution of 1989-91 in the Soviet Union, . . .

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U.S. hands off the antiwar movement and the African People’s Socialist Party

The lightly edited statement was issued April 23, 2023.  The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemns the indictment of Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and other members for expressing their views on Ukraine. The indictment charges them with “conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. . . .

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Progressive Africa in solidarity with Cuba

This article was published in Avante, the weekly newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, on April 13. Translation: John Catalinotto. The South African Communist Party has reaffirmed its support for convening, later this year, an Africa-Cuba Solidarity Conference. According to the SACP, this is an important initiative to bring together . . .

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Puerto Rican community protests the Hispanic Federation’s annual gala

The following is a slightly edited version of a press release issued April 18 by The Puerto Rico Is Not for Sale Campaign coalition.  April 20, 2023 protest, New York. WW PHOTO: Toni Arenstein On April 20, The Puerto Rico Is Not for Sale Campaign protested the Hispanic Federation’s Annual . . .

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