This article is for the thousands of young people who supported Bernie Sanders and for the social organizations that came out for Sanders, some endorsing a presidential candidate for the first time. It is for the thousands of nurses leading the way in the fight for Medicare for All and . . .
Continue reading Which road to socialism: Bernie Sanders and voting in a pandemic at Workers.org
Burning through communities like a raging fire, COVID-19 takes from us those most vulnerable. Already poisoned by environmental racism, people of color are being consumed by the virus at wildly disproportionate rates. The poorest strata of the working class, now dubbed essential, are not permitted to distance themselves from the . . .
Continue reading Build Workers Assemblies, build a workers’ world! at Workers.org
April 12 — About 40 workers at a New York City Chipotle store staged a walkout on March 6 after a worker was written up for calling in sick. The store was not providing the five paid sick days mandated by city law, forcing workers to come to work sick . . .
Continue reading Dozens of strikes all say, ‘No safety, no work!’ at Workers.org
The following slightly edited April 10 commentary by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is available at prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia. Mumia Abu-Jamal For nearly a month now, all prisoners in Pennsylvania state prisons — over 40,000 men and women — have been locked down. What does “locked down” mean? When I was on death . . .
Continue reading Locked up and locked down–a commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal at Workers.org
The following remarks were given by Palestinian author and activist Susan Abulhawa during a Workers World Party webinar,“Free Them All: COVID-19 and Racist Mass Incarceration,” on April 9. The videotaped webinar is available for viewing at workers.org/videos/. Today is the anniversary of the Deir Yasin massacre, which took place on . . .
Continue reading Dire situation for Palestinian prisoners at Workers.org
Traffic around Philadelphia City Hall came to a standstill for over an hour April 9 as hundreds of protesters, from social distance in their cars, demanded Mayor Jim Kenney and First Judicial District Judges Patrick Dugan, Leon Tucker and Idee Fox decrease the number of incarcerated people in the city’s . . .
Continue reading Caravan targets City Hall and jail in Philly protest at Workers.org
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