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The world watches in horror as Israel rains thousands of U.S.-supplied bombs on Gaza, home to 2.3 million Palestinians. We  write critically of the Zionist state’s  military aggression, occupation and racism. Our paper is partisan, siding with the besieged Palestinian people – those who struggle to survive, those who resist,…

On Aug. 10, 2023, I was transferred out of [State Correctional Institution] Forest to SCI Greene. Before I left, my counselor Ms. Benson came to my door and said, “If you wouldn’t have written for that newspaper, you wouldn’t be getting transferred.” I guess I was supposed to just let…

ENDORSERS: Advancing the Research, Africa Today KPFA, Afrikan Children’s Advanced Learning Center, All African People's Revolutionary Party, ANSWER Coalition - SF Bay Area, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, BAYAN-USA, Bay Area Alliance for a Sustainable Puerto Rico, Bay Area Black Alliance for Peace, Bay Area CISPES, Black Cultural Zone Collaborative, Bay Area Cuba Solidarity Network, Caminante Cultural…

Workers World received this statement from the Danish Communist Party on Oct. 4. For more than two years, Denmark’s government leaders have been negotiating a bilateral defense agreement with the United States, which will allow U.S. troops to stay on Danish soil for shorter or longer periods of time, while…

Bronx, New York A coalition of antiwar and peace organizations in New York City is gearing up for an upcoming march and rally to raise public awareness about how the United States deliberately provoked the war against Russia in Ukraine by aggressively expanding NATO to Russia’s borders.  At the forefront…

Boston’s proclamation two years ago that the second Monday of October every year would be Indigenous Peoples Day “in lieu of” Columbus Day was a victory for Native peoples, since the U.S. settler-colonial project, which resulted in genocide and the theft and devastation of their lands and cultures, began and…

Providence, Rhode Island “What we did yesterday taught us that nothing is impossible. After all, what seemed impossible yesterday, was possible today. So, nothing will seem impossible tomorrow.” — Fidel Castro “Too many people in the U.S. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the…

A close look at the catastrophic flood that hit the port city of Derna in northeastern Libya Sept. 9 shows that it was no natural disaster. Nor was its scale due only to the climate crisis. Those Western leaders who ordered the 2011 U.S./NATO war that destroyed the then-existing Libyan…

Excerpted from a talk given by Workers World Party First Secretary Larry Holmes at the WWP National Conference in New York City, Oct. 8-9, 2011. Sept. 17 was the 12th anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street has opened up space. This development, mostly white now,…

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 11, 1973, the generals and admirals in the Chilean armed forces led a coup against the elected Popular Unity government. They murdered President Salvador Allende and the world-famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and songwriter Victor Jara. In the following months, the coup makers massacred 3,000…