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Counter-protest drowns out far-right anti-trans demo at New York City Hall
NEW YORK—On Nov. 14, just after 12 p.m. on the west border of City Hall Park, the sounds of pots, pans, noisemakers, and chanting rang through the air.
"The next electoral referendum on such politics will be the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8."
Tally another victory for the neo-fascist, anti-immigrant right wing in Europe. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party—the successor to the post-World War II Italian Social Movement—is set to be the next prime minister of that country following Sunday’s national election.
PRIDE 2022: A season of celebration, a season of struggle
After a pandemic-enforced two-year hiatus in many parts of the world, Pride is back this summer. Pageants, parties, and parades are in full swing once more, putting the vibrancy and diversity of the LGBTQ community front and center.
Juneteenth 2022: Demanding a Third Radical Reconstruction of U.S. capitalism
Tens of thousands are descending on Washington, D.C. for the historic, multiracial “Moral March on Washington and to the Polls.” The march occurs during the Juneteenth Holiday weekend and the growing battle to preserve and extend U.S. constitutional democracy.
House panel proves Trump himself led Jan. 6 coup attempt
WASHINGTON—Using previously unseen video and the testimony of top White House aides, including members of the former president’s family, the Jan. 6 House panel last night displayed to the nation and the world how Trump was the chief organizer at the center of a vast conspiracy to overturn the 20...
Brooklyn landlord’s neglect causes tenant to suffer carbon monoxide poisoning
On April 2nd, 2022, in East Flatbush, Brooklyn resident Khadija Haynes (co-author of this article) passed out while inside her basement apartment as a result of carbon Monoxide poisoning. Long before this, the conditions within her apartment were deteriorating.
Formula shortage: Monopoly capitalism is starving American babies
With store shelves stripped of baby formula, families across the country are getting desperate. Hungry babies cry, with bellies not quite full enough. Some parents report spending hundreds of dollars to ship a few precious cans from another state.
Frontline report: How we won a union at Starbucks
Jen Lenz is an employee at the Campustown Starbucks store in Peoria, Ill. In the article below, she shares a first-hand account of how workers successfully organized their workplace despite fierce union-busting and divisive tactics on the part of the coffee bosses.
Billion-dollar deal partners Google and Amazon in Israeli occupation of Palestine
“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. In their letter, the signatories protested a $1.
Young Amazon workers on Staten Island rattle the halls of power
The workers at JFK8 on Staten Island have just made history as the first ever union at Amazon, winning a major victory for workers everywhere. This victory not only represents the energy of workers and supporters over the past week but the sustained drive of the union, which has been working toward....
Ukrainian Communist youth leaders arrested by government, reportedly targeted for death
Mikhail Kononovich, leader of the youth wing of the outlawed Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), and his brother, Aleksander Kononovich, were arrested by Ukrainian authorities in Kiev and could reportedly be facing ex*****on.
A criminal war ushers in the worst of times in Ukraine, Russia, and Europe
BERLIN—These are terrible, terrible days. A young Ukrainian woman described to me, with tears in her eyes, the conditions for her bed-ridden grandmother, for relatives and friends, some with toddlers and babies, in many parts of Ukraine.
Poor People’s Campaign starts long-term trek to D.C.
RALEIGH, N.C.—Returning to North Carolina, where Moral Mondays, the precursor of the Poor People’s Campaign, began, the campaign and its backers celebrated a state Supreme Court win there while publicizing the drive’s long-term trek to D.C., which kicked off February 14.
Second Amazon warehouse on Staten Island files for union election
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) has just filed for a union election at a second Amazon warehouse on Staten Island. News came on Feb. 2 after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced the filing at the warehouse, known as LDJ5.
Pipeline ploy: How U.S. natural gas interests are fueling the Ukraine crisis
Along with trying to militarily absorb Ukraine into NATO, another major factor that’s becoming more apparent in the Biden administration’s unceasing talk of war with Russia is the desire of U.S. energy producers to invade European markets with fracked natural gas.
Online Event: Solidarity with Striking UMWA Mine Workers at Warrior Met Coal
TUESDAY, FEB. 22, 2022 - 8 P.M. EASTERN REGISTER HERE Click here to make a donation that goes directly to UMWA mine workers strike fund. Read People's World coverage of the strike at Warrior Met: > Warrior Met forces 1,100 Mine Workers in Alabama into long strike > Solidarity going st...
U.S. ramps up war talk as it points more missiles at Russia
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken went on national television Thursday morning to declare, again, that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could start at any moment. His dire prediction was yet another in the endless string of declarations by the U.S. that war could start at any moment.
The deadly 2022 Bronx fire was a capitalist disaster
BRONX, N.Y. - On Sunday, Jan. 9 at 11:00 a.m. a vicious fire tore through the Twin Parks, NorthWest building, located at 333 E.181st street, in the Bronx. The fire started in unit 3M after a heater was allegedly left on for three days.
Workers cite awful conditions inside Amazon’s monstrous Staten Island “fulfillment center”
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—What’s it like toiling inside a big Amazon warehouse, which the corporate behemoth euphemistically calls “a fulfillment center”? In a word, say two workers inside the largest of the firm’s four warehouses on Staten Island, N.Y., it’s awful.
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From Russia with love: Lenin’s Letter to American Workers
The Centennial of the Russian Revolution November 7, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the world’s first socialist state.
School board wars: Republicans’ anti-CRT strategy less successful than they hoped
One of the biggest storylines of the Nov. 2 elections was how right-wing billionaires poured massive amounts of “dark money” into astroturfing manufactured grassroots outrage around Critical Race Theory (CRT) and school masking mandates.
Coverage of rally for Staten Island Amazon workers last night at Times Square, NYC .
TIMES SQUARE — Wednesday night’s rally in Manhattan gave Amazon employees high visibility in their continued efforts to unionize the company’s Staten Island warehouse. The group &…
Flame of George Floyd rebellion glows bright at NAARPR conference
CHICAGO—“All power to the people!” was the slogan most often heard at the conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) held here the first weekend of December. Over 140 delegates from 30 organizations attended.
‘Amazon won’t let us leave’: Tornado creates modern Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
“Amazon won’t let us leave.” That was the last message 46-year-old Larry Virden sent his girlfriend on the evening of Dec. 10. A short time later, a tornado blasted through Edwardsville, Illinois, and shredded the Amazon fulfillment center warehouse where Virden worked.
Rittenhouse acquittal is latest chapter in long and sinister history of racism
A jury in Kenosha, Wisc., on Nov. 19 acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse, who was 17 years old when he murdered two unarmed men and wounded a third. Rittenhouse was participating in an armed group of “volunteers” to “aid” the police and “protect property” from people protesting the shooting of Ja...
An injury to one is an injury to all. The thousands of Student Workers on strike at Columbia University in the City of New York need your support. Columbia administration is retaliating *illegally* against these workers by threatening to replace them while they are on a ULP strike.
Join them for a day of action tomorrow, Weds, Dec 8: https://bit.ly/Support-SWC
Women’s marchers to encircle High Court after justices hear anti-abortion demands
WASHINGTON—They don’t expect half a million people—as they got the day after misogynist and racist Donald Trump took over the presidency--but the Women’s March will return to Washington, again, to literally ring the Supreme Court on Dec. 1.
Celebrate Jarvis Tyner by giving to one of his favorite causes: Peoples World
I first met Jarvis Tyner on a spring morning in 1964 when I picked him up at the Amherst, Mass. bus depot. Jarvis was on tour recruiting young people to attend the founding convention of the W.E.B DuBois Clubs, a multiracial socialist youth organization.
Working Families Party director, Sochie Nnaemaka, says her party gives voters a real choice
NEW YORK - Sochie Nnaemeka, the daughter of Nigerian immigrant parents, has been State Director of the New York Working Families Party since late 2019.
An upsurge worth fighting for
The following report by Joe Sims was given at the National Committee meeting on October 31, 2021. Our country and our class are in the midst of a great battle. It is a battle for democracy and working-class lives.
Election 2021: Republicans make some major gains but not everywhere
WASHINGTON—Except for the Boston and Atlanta mayoral races and numerous local elections scattered around the country, Election 2021 was not the night the Democratic Party and many of the people’s movements had hoped for. Pro-worker candidates especially in Virginia but elsewhere took major hits.
Democrats can avoid midterm election disaster by running on their actual agenda
Democrats in Virginia can’t say they didn’t see it coming. Complaints at the gas pump and the rumbling at local school board meetings outside Richmond foretold Election Day trouble.
Historic U.S.- Cuba cultural exchange coming to NYC
Chicago’s iconic HotHouse announced they are proud to be a producer of the momentous cultural exchange A Function at the Junction: Ancestral Bridge, Musical Streams” / “Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales,” an historic and collaborative, multimedia event present....
Worker power sweeps the country during
Workers all across the country are striking and engaging in other job actions, large and small. Fed up with company attempts to impose two-tier wages, long hours, and inadequate pay—despite rising productivity and skyrocketing corporate profits—unions in several industries have had it. Now they....
John Deere UAW members to vote Nov. 2 on tentative pact
WATERLOO, Iowa—The 10,100 Auto Workers who toil at 12 John Deere farm equipment plants in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas are scheduled to vote Nov. 2 on a tentative new six-year contract with the big farm equipment maker—but will keep walking picket lines until results are in.
Holy wars against vaccines and science
Last summer, some of my family visited folks in Pennsylvania. All of us leaving the Bronx were fully vaccinated. Mask-wearing compliance on Amtrak was basically 100%—the conductors told passengers who weren’t wearing masks to put them on.
People’s movements face off against corporate lobbyists to save Build Back Better
WASHINGTON—Even as thousands hit the streets nationwide, demanding the progressive program contained in Democratic President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, coalitions of organizations—unions included—are lobbying lawmakers to pass it.
A good video from Campaign for NY Health -- both very funny and deadly serious --about the absurdity of the present healthcare-for-profit system and the need to pass the single payer NY Health Act (2 minutes)."Imagine your house is on fire, and the firefighters refuse to help you because you don't have insurance. Except it’s not your house, it’s your health."
This is absurd. So is our current healthcare system. Let’s now!Imagine your house is on fire, and the firefighters refuse to help you because y...
Chipotle workers on strike!! https://www.amny.com/news/exclusive-chipotle-workers-walkout-in-queens-after-company-refuses-to-pay-during-hurricane-ida-closure/
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