Left: Trump on the golf course; right: Flooding in Puerto Rico

Adding ignorant insults to Puerto Rico's injuries

On top of powerful hurricanes and a society degraded by austerity, Puerto Ricans shouldn't have to endure the racist rants of the Twitterer-in-Chief.

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They put Pelosi on notice

Read the speech delivered by immigrant youth who interrupted Nancy Pelosi's press conference about her DACA deal.

Quakes shake Mexican politics

After the earthquakes, Mexico witnessed both the savage consequences of capitalism and the potential for a radical alternative.

Solidarity with the Red Nation

The ISO sent greetings to a meeting of several hundred Indigenous organizers and supporters organized by the Red Nation.

Missing from Sanders' bill

Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill would leave people requiring long-term care in a lower tier, punishing those with disabilities.

Not just a "Southern problem"

The legacy of slavery and the ongoing fact of racism aren’t confined to former slave states with Civil War monuments.


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The History of Black America

Read Socialist Worker's series on the history of the African American struggle in the U.S., from slavery through Jim Crow, civil rights and Black Power, up to the present day.


Next steps on Medicare for All

Sanders' bill for single-payer health care is a crack in the political edifice--and a chance to organize pressure at the grassroots.

Will Hillary ever forgive us?

Hillary Clinton greets supporters during the launch of her new book in New York

Hillary Clinton does take responsibility in her memoir--for being smarter than anyone else, but the damn-fool voters didn't listen.

Trump spurs athletes to action

More NFL players than ever took a knee during the National Anthem on Sunday after Donald Trump's bigoted remarks.

St. Louis refuses to be silenced

St. Louis streets surged with daily protests after a not-guilty verdict for a cop who killed in cold blood--but police doubled down with more repression.

Taking on the right

Nazis defile anti-fascist tribute

When someone painted Nazi graffiti on a memorial in Madison honoring anti-fascists, activists turned out to oppose them.

Alt-reich fiasco in Berkeley

This week's far-right festival of hate at the University of California at Berkeley flamed out before it started--leaving the university holding the bill.

Berkeley faculty plan boycott

Hundreds of faculty and graduate students at UC Berkeley are planning an all-campus boycott as the alt-right plans to invade.

Campus crusaders for hate

White supremacists, led by Matthew Heimbach (right) vandalize the Towson University campus

Get ready: The right wing--from pro-Trump College Republicans to well-dressed reactionaries to outright fascists--is coming for your college.

We won't let them silence us

Students and faculty at Ohio University are responding to a new administration policy that effectively forbids political activity.`

United against hate in Syracuse

A new coalition calling itself Syracuse United Against Hate has united to prepare for opposing far-right mobilizations.

Solidarity with a UT organizer

Socialists and immigrant rights activists at the University of Texas are mobilizing to defend Eric Nava-Perez from a campus ban.

The Democrats' art of the deal

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi say they saved DACA for immigrant youth. But they gave Trump more weapons to use against their parents.

Teamsters stand for sanctuary

Teamsters Joint Council 16, representing 120,000 workers in the New York area, has pledged to defend undocumented members.

Make ICE show us its papers

Immigrant justice organizations turned out at field offices across the country to demand details about planned raids and enforcement.

Forty ways to oppose 40 Days

A reproductive rights organization provides a day-by-day counter for the 40 days of bigotry by anti-abortion fanatics at women's clinics across the U.S.

Why is Scout dead?

The shooting of a Georgia Tech student by campus police raises questions about the lack of mental health care and other support.

Overshadowing the far right

The main event on D.C.'s National Mall last weekend was a rally of music fans who have been falsely classified as a "hybrid gang."

They're storming the clinics

Anti-abortion fanatics busted into clinics in three cities this weekend to threaten patients and staff--marking a new escalation in the right wing's offensive.

Why Goodwill goes bad

The Goodwill store in Sacramento where Abraham Garza was killed on the job

David Goudie saw a co-worker crushed to death because of unsafe conditions he had previously warned about--and then was fired from his job.

Striking for their own pensions

Workers who handle health care and pension funds for several Seattle-area unions find themselves in a fight for their own benefits.

Jail becomes a death sentence

Protesters in Binghamton, New York, gathered at the county jail to call for an end to brutal conditions and mass incarceration.

Answering capital's disasters

The left-wing author makes the case for a vision of what we're fighting for that isn't just a list of policies, but is really an alternative worldview.

The debt before the storm

Puerto Rico is reeling after two devastating hurricanes, but the disaster has been exacerbated by decades of colonial domination by the U.S.

Shooting bullets at a hurricane

The problem isn't just Republicans who deny climate science, but self-appointed leaders of the "resistance" among the Democrats.

Ruling the world for good?

Bernie Sanders outlined a different foreign policy in his Westminster speech, but it fell well short of a genuine internationalism.

Pushing Korea to the brink

Donald Trump  (Joyce N. Boghosian)

The cycle of escalation between North Korea and the U.S. is fanning fears of a horrific war--but we shouldn't lose sight of who the real provocateur is.

Polarization at the polls

Germany's elections show that the country is not insulated from a crisis-prone Europe, but part and parcel of it.

Decisive days in Catalonia

With both popular mobilization and Spanish state repression growing, this weekend's referendum will bring the moment of truth.

Aftershocks of opportunism

The responses of Mexico’s oppressors and oppressed to the country’s earthquakes couldn’t have been more different.

Catalonia's right to decide

The Spanish state's attempts to repress a referendum on Catalonian independence is producing even greater resistance.

Sabotaging peace in Colombia

The Trump administration is pushing for discredited drug war policies that threaten to undermine attempts to end a long civil war.

The PA cracks down on dissent

PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Benedikt von Loebell)

The Palestinian Authority passed a law that would jail those whose speech on social media allegedly threatens "social harmony."

Capital's never-ending robbery

Karl Marx's Capital was first published 150 years ago this month--and its analysis and insight have only gained in power since.

James Baldwin's journey

"Nothing can be changed until it is faced," wrote James Baldwin, and a new generation is learning from him about the challenges we face today.

Prejudices of a moral panic

Poor women already face obstacles raising their children, but they're being put under greater scrutiny, especially over drug use.

Not your typical series

Keir Gilchrist plays Sam in the new Netflix series Atypical

Despite some flaws, Netflix's Atypical makes the case that society is improved by the inclusion of neurodiverse people.

Comrades of the sea

A journalist in revolutionary Russia in 1917 describes his encounters sailors who were part of the struggle to make the world anew.

Read SW's series on the Russian Revolution, which began 100 years ago today.

How Kornilov was defeated

In August of 1917, the Russian Revolution faced the threat of a coup. Defeating it depended on a mass popular mobilization.

The final act of the revolution

By October 1917, the unstable situation of dual power--the workers' councils versus the Provisional Government--came to a head.

Find a list of articles from the full Socialist Worker series on Russia 1917.

Understanding what's typical

The neurodiversity movement wants to change the public discourse from one of "tragedy" to acceptance and inclusion.

Views in brief

What can end homelessness? | We'll defend access to clinics | The right to take a knee | A crackdown that harms people in pain

What you won't see on PBS

The Ken Burns documentary series on the U.S. war in Vietnam is off and running, but what's missing is the larger historical context.

Recovery that puts people first

After disasters like Katrina and Harvey, we need an approach that puts survivors ahead of the profiteering of disaster capitalists.

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