Download 12-page PDF here. Iran-Venezuela solidarity breaks U.S. blockade. Pandemics can foment social revolutions. Also: What is a Marxist-Leninist party? COVID cover-up in Georgia; Reproductive justice Labor fights back: Postal workers; Portland essential workers; Agricultural workers; CUNY instructors. World: Kerala, India; Ecuador; China. Tear down prisons: Major Tillery; ICE detainees; . . .
Continue reading PDF of May 28 issue at Workers.org
Protesters at the Minneapolis police department before being assaulted by cops, May 26. May 27 – It was déjà vu, all over again. Another Black man captured on videotape, first, being tortured and, then, being choked to death by a white police officer. It was almost six years ago when, . . .
Continue reading Want justice for George Floyd? Jail & convict killer cops! — a WW commentary at Workers.org
Federal, state, county and city governments are quick to raid and displace a group of people who are unhoused but have established a home encampment together. No assistance is given to those people to maintain their collective living situation. Instead, orders are issued to “clean up” the neighborhood or park . . .
Continue reading As COVID-19 deaths surge, evictions and raids resume – WW commentary at Workers.org
The U.S. is in a historic, crushing economic crisis, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on May 21 the official unemployment rate was 14.7 percent, that same day Fortune magazine — a voice of the capitalist class — said the U.S. real unemployment rate . . .
Continue reading In dire economic crisis, lessons from the most oppressed at Workers.org
Georgia health care workers at Athens Piedmont Medical Center wave to a ‘thank-you’ caravan circling the hospital on April 4. Atlanta Even as Georgia reopens certain businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s Department of Public Health continues to make errors in tracking the number of COVID-19 cases. One error . . .
Continue reading Georgia ‘reopens’ with questionable data at Workers.org
A 2018 popular protest in Quito targets the Ecuadorean president. Ibarra, Ecuador Parts 1 and 2 are available on workers.org. Workers World spoke with Pedro de la Cruz, an Indigenous representative at the Constituent Assembly of 2008, the Constituyente, who spoke of what was happening in his region. De la . . .
Continue reading Part 3: Ecuador’s people speak out at Workers.org
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during the“What Road To Socialism?” webinar held by Workers World Party on May 16. Disability is a condition that strikes all classes. Ruling-class families start charities, like the Kennedys, who started the Special Olympics. That’s nice, but it didn’t bring . . .
Continue reading Fight for the rights of people with disabilities! at Workers.org
|
