Home » Global » Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls for ‘powerful army’ to liberate Gaza Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses rally for Palestine outside the U.N. in New York City on Sept. 25, 2025. In his fourth speech in as many years before the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro…
Home » U.S. and Canada » Court rules Texas professor should be reinstated Dr. Tom Alter addresses his supporters at a downtown rally Sept. 25 in St. Marcos, Texas. By CG Bartell Texas Hill Country Texas State University in San Marcos — a city located between San Antonio and Austin — abruptly fired tenured history…
WASHINGTON — Google the name “Tallulah Bankhead” and you will be regaled (or mortified if your mores tend to the Victorian) with tales of the actor’s libertine appetites, her breakout performance in the Hitchcock classic Lifeboat, or her half-camp, half-vamp villainess in the 1960s Batman television series. Wikipedia references her patrician mien — dahling not…
Ten days before American student outrage over gun violence triggered multitudes across the U.S and around the world to join in “March For Our Lives” protests; many US high school educators and other adults provided students with strident lessons in assholelisity. During the March 14, 2018 National School Walkout Day staged by students to show…
Home » Global » Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls for ‘powerful army’ to liberate Gaza Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses rally for Palestine outside the U.N. in New York City on Sept. 25, 2025. In his fourth speech in as many years before the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro…
Home » U.S. and Canada » Court rules Texas professor should be reinstated Dr. Tom Alter addresses his supporters at a downtown rally Sept. 25 in St. Marcos, Texas. By CG Bartell Texas Hill Country Texas State University in San Marcos — a city located between San Antonio and Austin — abruptly fired tenured history…
Assata Shakur In honor of Assata Shakur’s 75th birthday on July 16, Workers World reprinted this slightly edited version of her Oct. 5, 2013, open letter first posted on Workers World on Dec. 30, 2014. Shakur died on Sept. 25, 2025, in Havana, Cuba, at age 78. My name is Assata Shakur, and I am…
Home » Editorials » Workers force Europe’s capitalists to act on Palestine Generally the capitalist class and its state apparatus conduct themselves in a manner detrimental to workers and oppressed people. Yet sometimes there’s a deviation from this pattern. When that happens, it’s important to examine how the pressure from the working class pushed the…