People's World NY

09/12/2023

"Refaat Alareer embraced everything good and pure about Gaza and Palestine," said one friend. "He will not be forgotten and his legacy will live on for many generations to come."

30/11/2023

"We've shown the world that this industry is harming workers and consumers to the benefit of company executives and the rich—and it's time that the working class did something about it," said the UAW president.

07/06/2023

The famed Talking Heads musician is now trying to produce a Broadway musical without live music.

12/01/2023

ALBANY, N.Y.—If housing and tenants’ rights organizations have their say, it will soon be harder for landlords in New York State to kick renters out of their homes without a valid reason.

25/11/2022

NEW YORK—On Nov. 14, just after 12 p.m. on the west border of City Hall Park, the sounds of pots, pans, noisemakers, and chanting rang through the air.

28/09/2022

"The next electoral referendum on such politics will be the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8."

Tally another victory for the neo-fascist, anti-immigrant right wing in Europe. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party—the successor to the post-World War II Italian Social Movement—is set to be the next prime minister of that country following Sunday’s national election.

25/06/2022

After a pandemic-enforced two-year hiatus in many parts of the world, Pride is back this summer. Pageants, parties, and parades are in full swing once more, putting the vibrancy and diversity of the LGBTQ community front and center.

19/06/2022

Tens of thousands are descending on Washington, D.C. for the historic, multiracial “Moral March on Washington and to the Polls.” The march occurs during the Juneteenth Holiday weekend and the growing battle to preserve and extend U.S. constitutional democracy.

13/06/2022

WASHINGTON—Using previously unseen video and the testimony of top White House aides, including members of the former president’s family, the Jan. 6 House panel last night displayed to the nation and the world how Trump was the chief organizer at the center of a vast conspiracy to overturn the 20...

01/06/2022

On April 2nd, 2022, in East Flatbush, Brooklyn resident Khadija Haynes (co-author of this article) passed out while inside her basement apartment as a result of carbon Monoxide poisoning. Long before this, the conditions within her apartment were deteriorating.

20/05/2022

With store shelves stripped of baby formula, families across the country are getting desperate. Hungry babies cry, with bellies not quite full enough. Some parents report spending hundreds of dollars to ship a few precious cans from another state.

09/05/2022

Jen Lenz is an employee at the Campustown Starbucks store in Peoria, Ill. In the article below, she shares a first-hand account of how workers successfully organized their workplace despite fierce union-busting and divisive tactics on the part of the coffee bosses.

05/04/2022

“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. In their letter, the signatories protested a $1.

04/04/2022

The workers at JFK8 on Staten Island have just made history as the first ever union at Amazon, winning a major victory for workers everywhere. This victory not only represents the energy of workers and supporters over the past week but the sustained drive of the union, which has been working toward....

14/03/2022

Mikhail Kononovich, leader of the youth wing of the outlawed Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), and his brother, Aleksander Kononovich, were arrested by Ukrainian authorities in Kiev and could reportedly be facing ex*****on.

14/03/2022

BERLIN—These are terrible, terrible days. A young Ukrainian woman described to me, with tears in her eyes, the conditions for her bed-ridden grandmother, for relatives and friends, some with toddlers and babies, in many parts of Ukraine.

18/02/2022

RALEIGH, N.C.—Returning to North Carolina, where Moral Mondays, the precursor of the Poor People’s Campaign, began, the campaign and its backers celebrated a state Supreme Court win there while publicizing the drive’s long-term trek to D.C., which kicked off February 14.

18/02/2022

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) has just filed for a union election at a second Amazon warehouse on Staten Island. News came on Feb. 2 after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced the filing at the warehouse, known as LDJ5.