News and Analysis from the United States
Before becoming President of the United States, Donald Trump made his name as a ruthless capitalist with an inflated ego and brutish business practices. Throughout Trump’s time as a capitalist exploiter, his actions towards the working class included massive suppression… Read More ›
Stop the Jerusalem Provocation! US President Donald Trump announced that he would relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem, officially recognising the city as the capital of Israel. This is a serious provocation. It will cause new conflicts in the Middle… Read More ›
The following comes from an interview with Antonio, an undocumented worker from Mexico who has resided and worked in the United States for the last six years. He works as a day laborer, mainly in construction. It’s no secret that… Read More ›
By Xzander Stephens It was around 12:20 a.m. I had just gotten off a 10 hour shift, grabbed my evening meal and was heading back to my apartment when by chance I happened to notice what initially looked like a… Read More ›
“The era of proletarian revolutions has only just begun. The emergence of socialism is a historical necessity emanating from the very development of society. It is inevitable. The counterrevolutions that have occurred, the obstacles that have arisen, may prolong the… Read More ›
The heightening of the ecological, economic, and social crises of capitalism during the summer of 2017 from Charlottesville to Houston cast a new urgency on the work of the rapidly consolidating left in the United States. As the left reawakens… Read More ›
In 1948, CPUSA National Chairman William Z. Foster visited the island of Puerto Rico. Upon his return, he made the following speech in the form of a open letter to US President Harry Truman. It was quite in line, Mr…. Read More ›
Would you mind if we start off with some background about yourself? Your name, where you came from, where you grew up, when you started working with Black Lives Matter, etc.? My name is Jalen Evans. I grew up in… Read More ›
In the days following the murder of activist Heather Heyer as a result of the fascist attack in Charlottesville, leftists far and wide correctly condemned the words and actions of the neo-fascist Trump, who explicitly – and repeatedly – declared a… Read More ›
The terrorist attack against anti-fascist demonstrators on August 12, in Charlottesville, VA, ignited a flame of anti-fascist and anti-racist actions all across the United States. A comrade in the struggle against fascism and white supremacy had fallen at the hands… Read More ›
By John Palameda In Durham, North Carolina on the afternoon of August 14th, 2017, a gathering of activists including elements from the Workers World Party climbed a statue greased by cops to impede climbing, tied a rope around the statue… Read More ›
CHICAGO– On the evening of Saturday, August 12, 2017, well over a thousand people packed a rented hall at Chicago’s International Union of Operating Engineers building as people spilled into the isles and stood in the wings in order to… Read More ›
SOLIDARITY WITH TAKIYAH THOMPSON! NO CHARGES AGAINST ANTI-FASCIST AND ANTI-RACIST ACTIVISTS! Tuesday, August 15th, Comrade Taliyah Thompson, a student at North Carolina Central University and a member of Workers World Party, participated in an anti-racist protest in Durham, North Carolina,… Read More ›
“Los comunistas deben saber que, en cualquier caso, el futuro les pertenece; Por lo tanto, debemos combinar la pasión más intensa en la gran lucha revolucionaria, con la evaluación más fría y más sobria de los desvaríos frenéticos de la… Read More ›
“Communists should know that, in any case, the future belongs to them; therefore, we must combine the most intense passion in the great revolutionary struggle, with the coolest and most sober appraisal of the frenzied ravings of the bourgeoisie.” –… Read More ›
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