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Brutal Alabama prison attack on incarcerated workers By Devin Cole posted on February 3, 2021 Occupied Muscogee Creek Land  Events in this report happened on the next to last day of a month-long strike and “economic black-out” of Alabama state prisons, led by incarcerated workers and called by the Free Alabama Movement. For more on the strike, see Workers World, Dec. 4, 2020.  On the morning of Jan. 30, Alabama correctional officers and sergeants beat and critically injured two incarcer...

Immigrant/refugee rights: It’s now or never, Joe WW commentary By Teresa Gutierrez posted on February 3, 2021 Since the beginning of the most recent war on immigrants — which took shape starting in 2006 with the hypercriminalization of undocumented workers — the U.S. Congress has repeatedly talked of passing legislation labeled “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” to right some of those wrongs. We are long past “reforms,” however. Conditions during the past 15 years for documented...

In September 2020, India’s Parliament passed three “farm bills” intended to crush India’s workers. To serve capitalist interests, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the fascist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), lent his support to the bills depriving farms of current protections. He allowed corporate greed to further encroach on India’s…

Immigrant/refugee rights: It’s now or never, Joe This article features our client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. Since the beginning of the most recent war on immigrants — which took shape starting in 2006 with the hypercriminalization of undocumented workers — the U.S. Congress has repeatedly talked of passing legislation labeled “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” to right some of those wrongs. We are long past “reforms,” however. Conditions during the past 15 yea...

There is a new global Marxist e-zine, The International. From the editors: “The International,” an international Marxist magazine, is regularly being published on the 15th of each month. It is a global political magazine for Communists and Socialists in a true sense, and has already received a very positive response…

U.S. empire wages 30-year war against Iraq By Ted Kelly posted on January 29, 2021 From the perspective of the world’s youth, U.S. imperialism has been waging war on Iraq their entire lives. Iraqi children born the same year as the start of the Gulf War, who should be approaching their 31st birthdays, were killed by U.S.-imposed sanctions or bombs. This 30-year war shaped the political consciousness of an entire generation. U.S.-Iraqi relations since 1990 are not those of two neighboring st...

Vietnam Communist Party to hold 13th National Congress By Paddy Colligan posted on January 28, 2021 Jan. 25 — The Communist Party of Vietnam is holding its 13th National Party Congress this week — a culmination of hundreds of meetings and discussions that have taken place throughout the country and at all levels of the party. It will evaluate the socioeconomic development strategies of the previous congress in 2016 and will set concrete targets and tasks for the future. The overall goal i...

Alabama Amazon workers accelerate struggle for a union At an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., 5,800 workers have won the right to vote for union representation. The National Labor Relations Board has authorized a mail-in election starting Feb. 8, with ballots due by March 29. Union organizers talk to workers at 4:30 a.m. outside the gates of the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. If a majority of workers vote yes, their victory will be a historic moment in the struggle of U.S. low-paid, par...

A united working class can defeat fascism By Ted Kelly posted on January 20, 2021 Excerpts taken from Jan. 14 webinar on “Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism” sponsored by Workers World Party.  To view the entire panel discussion, go to   Ted Kelly “At the moment that the ‘normal’ police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium — the turn of the fascist regime arr...

Excerpts taken from Jan. 14 webinar on “Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism” sponsored by Workers World Party. To view the entire panel discussion, go to   When you consider what’s happened since January 6, you see Washington, D.C., is pretty much shut down under martial law, occupied by the army,…