PDF of February 2 issue

Download the PDF. Justice for Tyre Nichols! Abolish the police! Protest condemns massacres by Israel Protests vs police brutality Pink slips for tech workers Harlem not for sale State attacks transgender workers, queer youth Black Reconstruction: lessons for today Mundo Obrero: La clase obrera en Francia EE.UU. y el golpe . . .

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Perú’s people rise up, reject coup that ousted Castillo

Ibarra, Ecuador Jan. 30, 2023 — Right-wing forces in Perú — with the support of U.S. imperialism — used a majority in Parliament to carry out a coup Dec. 7 against elected President Pedro Castillo. This illegal attack on Perú’s first Indigenous president, a schoolteacher from a rural region, aroused . . .

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Coast-to-coast protests call for justice for Tyre Nichols

Raleigh, North Carolina, Jan. 28, 2023. Ben Carroll Raleigh: Several hundred people marched through the streets of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on Jan. 28, to protest the police murders of Tyre Nichols and Darryl Williams. Williams was killed by the Raleigh Police Department on Jan. 17 after being shot multiple . . .

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States escalate coordinated attack on transgender workers with bar ban

New York City Pride, Workers World Party contingent, June 28, 2017. More Pride coverage p. 6. After last year’s campaign to ban adolescents from accessing gender-affirming health care, several Christian right-dominated state legislatures are now turning their efforts toward the disenfranchisement of transgender adults.  Oklahoma’s legislature is leading the pack . . .

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We need prison abolition, not reform

Credit: Lauren Walker for Truthout This commentary first appeared on workers.org Feb. 17, 2022. Nearly 2.3 million people, who are incarcerated every day in prisons, jails and detention centers in the U.S., face possible death sentences while locked up during a deadly respiratory pandemic. Despite facing inhumane and unsanitary conditions, . . .

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