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Right-wing forces are generating legalized hatred and bigotry in the U.S. under the banner of “Save Our Children!”  In Texas, parents arranging medical and mental health support for their trans children can now be prosecuted as “child abusers.” In Florida, teachers and school systems with a curriculum of LGBTQ+ sexuality…

Dear Workers World, I’m writing to you in hopes to start to receive this paper. I would like to understand more of what’s happening in other parts of the world, with protests, struggle, hopes — and good news in general would be great. I would like to thank you for…

In the spirit of International Working Women’s Day, March 8, Workers World hails women workers and oppressed people around the world, as well as in the U.S. In 1910, the International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen declared March 8 International Working Women’s Day. People of all genders commemorate this special…

It was with great sadness that Workers World learned that Korean peace activist Hyun Lee died on March 7. The statement below was released by two organizations with which she worked. Women Cross DMZ and Korea Peace Now! are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved colleague, mentor, teacher, friend…

People who knew about this sordid anniversary in the history of the United States empire marked it Feb. 19. On that infamous day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the mass incarceration of nearly everyone of Japanese ancestry who resided within the United…

In view of the intense international crisis exacerbating the confrontation between U.S.-NATO imperialism and Russia, and in light of the upcoming NATO Summit in Madrid this June, we in Workers World publish this Statement of the Coordinating Committee of Communist Nuclei* in the Spanish State, which is a NATO member.…

Portland, Oregon Cries of “Abolish NATO!” and “Resist U.S. imperialism!” echoed around Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, March 6. These were the phrases that garnered the loudest cheers from the nearly 160 protesters gathered to protest NATO encroachment on Eastern Europe. A coalition of groups organized the “Stop NATO…

By Naomi Cohen New York City The following edited excerpt is from an article originally published in the March 25, 1970, Workers World, “A day of struggle in New York City — Militant demonstration marks International Working Women’s Day.”  A Youth Against War and Fascism banner led a march to…

Https://youtu.be/8zLQLUpNGsc I have people worried that as white writers they will be hit with “cultural appropriation” if they write a novel with characters who are not of their own race. You know the deal — writing about barrios, or ghettos or even a mix of people in a big city, people outside the lily white

Over 100 people, joined by many others on social media, gathered Feb. 19 at Grand Central Station in New York City with an anti-NATO message opposing another imperialist war. A wide range of peace and justice organizations supported the action, including Black Alliance for Peace, Workers Assembly Against Racism (WAAR)…