This year, possibly for the first time ever, the United Mine Workers did not endorse a presidential candidate. In 2008, the union was an early endorser of Obama, and has usually supported Democratic candidates. The union’s decision to sit it out this year was an indication of the crisis that has befallen coal miners, who [...]
The passage of the union-busting “right-to-work” law in Michigan is a severe legal setback for the labor movement and for the workers, the oppressed and all the progressive masses in the state. If not turned around, it will encourage right-wing, anti-labor forces across the country. However, it must be emphasized at the outset that so [...]
This is a talk by Berta Joubert-Ceci of the Philadelphia branch of Workers World Party to the November WWP National Conference. I want to share some thoughts about Venezuela. Since Hugo Chávez took office as president in 1999, Venezuela has been a ray of hope for millions of people around the world, but more so [...]
Following is a talk by Ben Carroll of the Durham, N.C., branch of Workers World Party to WWP’s National Conference in November. It’s incredibly exciting to be here, given all the tremendous developments in the struggle, the fightback that is building across the globe and the role that young workers are playing in this. [...]
Since Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced the recurrence of the cancer that he has been battling since 2011 and the need for additional surgery, he has been the object of world solidarity. He told the Venezuelan people on Dec. 8 that his last medical examination showed that malignant cells recurred at the site in his [...]
By an overwhelming vote of its online readers, the British newspaper The Guardian has been forced to name U.S. political prisoner Pvt. B. Manning its “Person of the Year.” Daniel Ellsberg, the releaser of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed U.S. lies about the contrived Tonkin Gulf incident used in 1964 to justify U.S. attacks on [...]
On Dec. 11, the U.S. took what the Obama administration calls a “big step.” It formally recognized the Syrian Opposition Council as the sole “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. Most observers were not surprised: Washington and its allies have been laboring mightily for months to create the very organization they now “recognize.” Just before [...]
By Manuel Raposo “Capitalism at a Dead End” is the expressive title of a book published this year in the United States that analyzes the current crisis of world capitalism from a Marxist point of view. Focused mainly on the U.S. situation, the book shows the significance of job destruction and overproduction in an era [...]
Egyptians in 10 of the country’s 27 provinces, including the two major cities of Cairo and Alexandria, voted on Dec. 15 in the first phase of a referendum for a draft constitution. The follow-up vote is scheduled to be held Dec. 22 in smaller cities and rural areas throughout this North African state. Only one-third [...]
Charleston, S.C., Dec. 20 — At 6:00 a.m. today, more than 25 community members and union members from across South Carolina and North Carolina held an informational picket in front of the Wando Terminal of the Port of Charleston. This protest helped bring attention to the ship being docked that morning — the Maersk Carolina — [...]
Anti-racist youth counter fascists
On Nov. 10, the “National Socialist Party,” commonly known as neo-Nazi scum, joined with the Ku Klux Klan to organize a national gathering in Charlotte, N.C. […]
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