Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging U.S.-China trade relations, and it’s not the Chinese. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of trying to damage the U.S. economy after…
Home » Workers unite! » On the Picket Line Kaiser strike Approximately 45,000 health care workers held a five day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across Hawaii, California and Oregon. The strike affected over 500 facilities and was the largest in health care union history. Striking workers included registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse…
Home » Global » Israel continues its war crimes The following statement was posted by The Cradle on Oct. 19, 2025. In a new statement, Hamas says it has fully abided by the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Oct. 9, 2025, under the sponsorship of Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye and the U.S., while…
Given the long list of its genocidal recipients, the Nobel Peace Prize was already considered by many as a sham award. But new laureate Maria Corina Machado outdid her peers by immediately dedicating her prize to Donald Trump and endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his attack on Gaza and beyond. Machado, the leader…
Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging U.S.-China trade relations, and it’s not the Chinese. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of trying to damage the U.S. economy after…
Home » Workers unite! » On the Picket Line Kaiser strike Approximately 45,000 health care workers held a five day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across Hawaii, California and Oregon. The strike affected over 500 facilities and was the largest in health care union history. Striking workers included registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse…
Home » U.S. and Canada » Push back against fascist repression! There is a truly mass movement in the streets growing in response to Trump’s fascist agenda. Millions took part in the “No Kings” demonstrations in June. The Oct. 18 No Kings demonstrations, estimated to be 2,500 separate actions in all 50 states and in…
Home » Global » Statement 2025: Stop U.S. aggression against Venezuela! This statement was issued by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition on Oct. 12, 2025. The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition demands an end to U.S. aggression against Venezuela, which is on the brink of outright war. Any escalation in the violence against Venezuela will cause more suffering…
by Yván Gil Voltaire Network | Caracas (Venezuela) | 2 October 2025 On behalf of the people and Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and in my own capacity, I present my compliments and wish to protest in the strongest terms against the illegal incursion conducted by United States combat aircraft that were detected…
Voltaire Network | 10 October 2025 Secretary of State of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin gave an interview to the Vatican media on October 6 [1] . After repeating the Pope’s position on the October 7 attack in Israel ("The brutal violence perpetrated against children, women, young people and the elderly can have no justification")…
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July 24 — A deal brokered by Turkey for the export of grain from both Ukraine and Russia presents a political problem for U.S. imperialism and its war aims. Washington’s response: ship more weapons. The landmark deal to move hundreds of tons of grain, if it moves forward, undermines U.S./NATO . . . Continue reading…
Voltaire Network | 10 October 2025 Secretary of State of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin gave an interview to the Vatican media on October 6 [1] . After repeating the Pope’s position on the October 7 attack in Israel ("The brutal violence perpetrated against children, women, young people and the elderly can have no justification")…
Home » Editorials » Nobel Committee awards peace prize to warmonger The Norwegian Nobel Committee reached a new low on Oct. 10, selecting Venezuelan reactionary politician Maria Corina Machado for its Peace Prize. The choice insults all Venezuelans who defend their country’s sovereignty. Worse, it actively promotes the MAGA regime’s war provocations against Venezuela’s people.…
Home » Stop imperialist war and occupation » Oakland demonstrates for Gaza Oakland, California A crowd of 1,000 people filled Oscar Grant Plaza on Oct. 4 to support the Palestinians’ struggle in Gaza for justice and liberation. A march through Oakland neighborhoods followed. The key demand was: Stop the shipment of arms cargo — including…
Home » Global » West Asia/ North Africa » Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on ceasefire agreement Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces spokesperson Abu Khaled made the following statement, posted by the Resistance News Network, on Oct. 11, 2025. Commander Abu Khaled, spokesman for the Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces (the military wing of the…
Home » Global » From Texas to Illinois: We do not want war! An illegal invasion force arrived in Chicago from Texas on Oct. 9 on the orders of the fascist President Donald Trump. This reactionary and criminal administration would have you believe that this is what we in Texas wanted, that we sent our…
Milwaukee, WI - june 15 marked the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the day that Zionist paramilitaries began the violent removal of Palestinians from a majority of their historic homeland. Various organizations in Milwaukee, led primarily by American Muslims for Palestine and Students for...
Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers’ Summit...
The Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification, joking that it...
Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump discussed anti-terrorism efforts at their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg...
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Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Samarkand today. In...
Plagued with rising crime and gang violence, and concerned about the threat of terrorism, Denmark has decided to employ its armed forces as border controls and guarding duties in order to release more police officers for other work.
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Home » Stop imperialist war and occupation » On Feb. 9, in NYC: Protest HULU ad promoting Israel takeover of Gaza From the announcement by the demonstration’s organizers. Taking the online outrage over Israel’s Hulu ads into the streets, protesters from pro-Palestinian groups will gather at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, at Union Square at…
When confronted with international appeals for humanitarian aid due to the ongoing crises in Gaza and Yemen, the United States and the United Kingdom have chosen instead to turn Yemen’s Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden into a combat zone, initiating an ariel bombing campaign against the war-torn country already suffering immensely from nine…
Enslaved family, 1850 The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing character of the working class,” first published in 1986. Marcy is the late chairperson of Workers World Party. The book is available as a free download at workers.org/marcy. Read part two at workers.org/2024/02/76810/.…
Entrevista a la antropóloga libanesa y dirigente comunista Leila Ghanem, realizada y traducida para la Coordinación de Núcleos Comunistas (CNC) por Ángeles Maestro (en el estado español) y enviado al Centenario de Lenín en Nueva York, organizado por el Partido Mundo Obrero el 21 de enero de 2024. 1. Ángeles Maestro: ¿Por qué la operación…
A Workers World Party member since 1962, Catalinotto addressed the final session of the Lenin Centennial of Jan. 21, 2024. The following text is based on his talk. John Catalinotto, Lenin Centennial, Jan. 21, 2024, New York City. (WW Photo: Joe Piette) As a managing editor of Workers World newspaper for the last 41 years,…
TikTok is once again under public scrutiny. The video-sharing platform is the subject of a Senate hearing into child safety online. Republican Senators were quick to paint it as a nefarious Chinese plot to take down America. But apart from some blatantly racist questions, Senator Tom Cotton asked its Singaporean CEO Shou Zi Chew. A…
Following President Volodymyr Zelensky’s trip to Washington in mid-December, the Anglo-Americans decided to change their strategy in Ukraine after the failure of the "counteroffensive". The Ukrainian army now has serious logistical problems because it is equipped in a heterogeneous way by donations from the Allies, and not by the acquisition of its own arsenal in…
Black women lead a strike against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Factory in Winston Salem, N.C. 1943 The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing character of the working class,” first published in 1986. Note that a few selected words have been updated to reflect…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Kansas City’s team still using a name that insults Workers World ran this photo of a 2021 protest. WW described the reasons for this protest in a 2014 article (workers.org/2014/11/16900). It’s another Super Bowl Feb. 11, 2024, and the issue is still very much alive.
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Voltaire Network | 11 February 2024 The Egyptian government informed its Israeli counterpart that if the IDF carry out an operation in Rafah as announced, entailing the disruption of humanitarian aid delivery into the Gaza Strip, it would suspend the Camp David Accords. Signed in 1978 and 1979 by former Muslim Brotherhood member Anwar el-Sadat…
To understand what is happening in the world, you need a variety of sources. You can’t settle for the big three conformist news agencies AFP, AP and Reuters. You should listen to different opinions and confront contradictory arguments. This diversity is all the more essential as the Gaza massacre is presented to us in an…