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[l] at 11/22/24 4:36pm
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wasted no time nominating potential cabinet members and other members of his second administration. Trump’s selections departed from how he chose cabinet members for his 2017-21 presidency. It is clear he and his advisers are specifically choosing hard-right personal “loyalists” and fascist-minded ideologues, while ignoring many . . . Continue reading Trump’s cabinet picks are cast of vultures at Workers.org

[Category: Editorials, Global, Stop imperialist war and occupation, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 11/22/24 4:17pm
Roughly 55,000 Canadian postal workers went on strike on Nov. 15.  The Canada Post Corporation, the countrys main postal operator, has cut off disability benefits to members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, and all collective bargaining agreements have been canceled. The union is demanding a 23% wage increase, . . . Continue reading Canadian and U.S. postal workers demand a just contract at Workers.org

[Category: Editorials, Global, U.S. and Canada, Workers unite!]

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[l] at 11/22/24 4:10pm
The only way for a people and a nation to win liberation from white supremacy, American hypernationalism and global capitalism is revolution. This is true for the entire colonized world but especially for the Puerto Rican colony. Logo of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) I am a Puerto . . . Continue reading The heroic armed resistance in Puerto Rico: WW commentary at Workers.org

[Category: Editorials, Global, Racism and Self-Determination, Stop imperialist war and occupation, U.S. and Canada, armed struggle, Nationalists, Puerto Rico]

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[l] at 11/22/24 3:40pm
The following article was posted by the News Desk at The Cradle (thecradle.co) on Nov. 15, 2024.  French news sources project that Abdallah is scheduled to be released on Dec. 6. Georges Abdallah  Credit: Le Monde A French court ordered on Nov. 15 the release of Lebanese resistance fighter Georges . . . Continue reading ‘A legal and political victory’: French court orders release of Georges Abdallah at Workers.org

[Category: Global, Prisons: tear them down, Stop imperialist war and occupation, West Asia/ North Africa, Lebanon]

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[l] at 11/21/24 8:33pm
Dallas Palestinians and other Arab peoples,  Muslims, Palestine supporters and progressive activists of all stripes converged on Dallas on the weekend of Nov. 16-17 to let the Jewish National Fund know that they are not welcome in this city. A “Global Conference for Israel” was held by the JNF at . . . Continue reading Zionist conference protested in Dallas at Workers.org

[Category: U.S. and Canada, West Asia/ North Africa]

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[l] at 11/21/24 4:50pm
Ponencia en el Simposio Internacional “Descolonización y cooperación en el Sur global,” Universidad de Shanghai, 12 y 13 de noviembre de 2024. El autor era un militar y diplomático venezuelano. Sahel En su magnífica obra “El imperialismo fase superior del capitalismo” escrita en 1916 y publicada por primera . . . Continue reading El colonialismo es un cáncer que debe ser erradicado en el siglo XXI (parte I) at Workers.org

[Category: Mundo Obrero, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 11/21/24 4:39pm
The author is a former Venezuelan soldier and diplomat. This is Part I of his presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South,” held at the University of Shanghai, Nov. 12-13, 2024. Translation: John Catalinotto. In his magnificent book “Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism” written . . . Continue reading Colonialism, a cancer to be eradicated in the 21st century (Part I) at Workers.org

[Category: Africa, Stop imperialist war and occupation]

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[l] at 11/21/24 4:22pm
The following article — about a massive march to counter racist attacks by a fascist movement during the desegregation of Boston schools and busing of Black schoolchildren — ran 50 years ago in the Dec. 20, 1974, issue of Workers World newspaper. Boston’s segregationist, “anti-busing” forces of 1974 — comprised . . . Continue reading Remembering the historic 1974 Boston march against racism at Workers.org

[Category: Racism and Self-Determination, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 11/20/24 11:42pm
Download the PDF Resistance grows as West Asia war widens Resistance grows as West Asia war widens Solidarity with Samidoun and Charlotte Kates! Trump, a new world order, old MAGA threats Editorials: Cabinet dysfunction Fight MAGA war NYC protest: ’Gaza, Gaza you will rise!’ Struggle to save Chinatown from Sixers . . . Continue reading PDF of November 21 print issue at Workers.org

[Category: Global, U.S. and Canada, Workers World Party]

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[l] at 11/20/24 2:24pm
Celandria Foster and Kenneth Foster. New Boston, Texas Kenneth Foster was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Nov. 15 in the small rural East Texas town of New Boston. He was wrongfully convicted of the murder of another prisoner, Anthony Dominguez, at the Telford . . . Continue reading Kenneth Foster: A victim of racist, ironic injustice at Workers.org

[Category: Prisons: tear them down, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 11/20/24 2:22pm
One year after Israels raid of Al-Shaifa Hospital, protesters held a vigil to honor Gaza at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York on Nov. 16. They held up framed photos of some of the hundreds of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers that have been killed by the Zionist . . . Continue reading New York City: ’Gaza, Gaza you will rise!’ at Workers.org

[Category: Prisons: tear them down, Stop imperialist war and occupation]

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[l] at 11/20/24 2:20pm
In the morning of Nov. 12, a new group, Engineers Against Apartheid, held banners and signs and gave speeches outside the United Auto Workers headquarters in downtown Detroit. The main banner read: “Unchain the UAW! Divest from Israel now!”  These automotive engineers have joined groups such as UAW Labor for . . . Continue reading UAW members to top leaders: Divest from genocide! at Workers.org

[Category: Stop imperialist war and occupation, Workers unite!]

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[l] at 11/20/24 2:18pm
A barricade burns in Port-au-Prince during a protest against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, with demonstrators calling for his resignation. Misery and hunger are afflicting millions of Haitians. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), 5.41 million Haitians are “food insecure,” which means they regularly don’t get enough . . . Continue reading U.S. schemes to control Haiti are failing at Workers.org

[Category: Latin America & the Caribbean, Stop imperialist war and occupation]

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[l] at 11/20/24 5:47am
For over a year, the capitalist media has falsely portrayed Israel’s genocidal war against the people of Palestine as a war between Israel and Hamas, the resistance group that launched the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. The Flood was a heroic challenge to apartheid conditions imposed on Palestinians since . . . Continue reading Resistance grows as West Asia war widens at Workers.org

[Category: Racism and Self-Determination, Stop imperialist war and occupation, Top, West Asia/ North Africa]

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[l] at 11/20/24 5:38am
The President Joe Biden administration has ordered an ominous escalation of the U.S./NATO war in Ukraine. This unauthorized, surprise move can only be understood as a desperate effort to create conditions that box the incoming Trump administration into continuing the war. Expanding the war in Ukraine and tying it to . . . Continue reading Biden escalates war in Ukraine amid new threats on Iran and China at Workers.org

[Category: Asia & the Pacific, Europe, Stop imperialist war and occupation, West Asia/ North Africa, NATO maneuvers]

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[l] at 11/20/24 5:30am
President-elect Donald Trump has quickly nominated most of his cabinet and White House staff. Instead of the allegedly qualified managers the Democrats claim they would have chosen to run the gigantic departments that make up the empire’s government and state bureaucracy, Trump has chosen an unsavory and incompetent collection of . . . Continue reading Cabinet dysfunction at Workers.org

[Category: Health Care, Human needs before profits, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 11/20/24 5:15am
La escritora fue candidata presidencial del Partido Mundo Obrero en 1996, 2000 y 2016. Obtuvo más votos que ningún otro candidato socialista en las elecciones de 1996. ‘He terminado con el capitalismo.’ Manifestación del Primero de Mayo de 2020, Filadelfia. (WW FOTO: Joe Piette) Casi una semana después de las . . . Continue reading Capitalismo: el mayor ganador de la campaña electoral at Workers.org

[Category: Human needs before profits, Mundo Obrero, Revolutionary Theory and Practice, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 11/18/24 8:02pm
Workers World Party urges unwavering support for Samidoun Political Prisoners Network and denounces the outrageous attack by Canadian authorities and police units on Charlotte Kates, the International Coordinator of Samidoun, and her home. Charlotte Kates This attack is part of a continuing effort by U.S./ Canadian / European Union governments . . . Continue reading Solidarity with Samidoun and Charlotte Kates! at Workers.org

[Category: Europe, Global, U.S. and Canada, West Asia/ North Africa]

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[l] at 11/18/24 7:53pm
Philadelphia  A special session of the Philadelphia City Council was held Nov. 12 for council members to question representatives of 76DevCorp about their master plan and Community Benefits Agreement for a $1.5 billion basketball arena called “76 Place” they want to build adjacent to Philadelphia’s historic Chinatown.  Sept. 7 march . . . Continue reading Struggle to save Chinatown from Sixers Arena moves to City Council at Workers.org

[Category: Human needs before profits, Sports, Arts and Culture, U.S. and Canada, Workers unite!]

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[l] at 11/18/24 7:29pm
By Carlos Martinez Martinez is a co-editor of Friends of Socialist China. His book, “The East Is Still Red – Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century,” was published in 2023 by Praxis Press and reviewed in Workers World newspaper. (workers.org/2023/07/72231/) The following article, which WW publishes with the author’s permission, . . . Continue reading Donald Trump and the dangers of the New Cold War on China at Workers.org

[Category: Asia & the Pacific, Europe, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 11/18/24 7:16pm
El editorial de Mundo Obrero del día después de las elecciones llamaba a todos los que luchan contra la guerra imperialista y a todos los que odian y pretenden combatir el programa MAGA a «responder con todas las formas de protesta a cualquier ataque que se nos presente». Peoplehood Parade . . . Continue reading Unir a trabajadores y oprimidos, luchar contra MAGA y la guerra editorial at Workers.org

[Category: Editorials, Europe, Global, Mundo Obrero, Stop imperialist war and occupation, U.S. and Canada, West Asia/ North Africa, Workers unite!]

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