United States
09 July 2020
A coalition of trade unions and campaign groups in the US is organising a “strike for black lives,” set for Monday 20 July.
07 July 2020
Mrs America follows the political upheaval around the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s
07 July 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell is charged with procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with, and engaging in sexual activity with them herself.
07 July 2020
Israel stalled plans to annexe huge chunks of the Palestinian West Bank last week.
05 July 2020
The ‘forgotten war’ that began 70 years ago wrecked a country so that big powers could grab more influence, writes Sophie Squire
03 July 2020
“If we must die, O let us nobly die/So that our precious blood may not be shed/In vain,” is perhaps another way of saying that black lives matter.
29 June 2020
The death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 128,000 in the US on Monday
21 June 2020
Du Bois was one of the most prolific and popular sociologists, academics and civil rights activists of the first half of the 20th century
20 June 2020
In 1921 racists wanted to put black people down, and break workers' unity
11 June 2020
For retired US Marine general James Mattis to publicly condemn the US president as a threat to the constitution is unprecedented.
08 June 2020
The power is in the streets. It’s not enough to write to your congressman or circulate a petition anymore
08 June 2020
The magnificent uprising taking place across the US is historic. Mass demonstrations following the police murder of George Floyd have now continued for more than two weeks. The rebellion is the most significant in decades.
08 June 2020
Many in the US ruling class may be beginning to wonder whether Trump is worth the trouble
08 June 2020
Alongside a terrible history of vicious racism in the US, there is a tradition of militant anti-racism. Yuri Prasad looks back at when black and white people have fought back together against the system
06 June 2020
“Black Lives Matter” was the urgent call to arms ricocheting off government buildings in Whitehall, central London, on Saturday.
06 June 2020
Richard Greeman, a Marxist writer and activist best known for his work on Victor Serge, gives his analysis of the momentous US events
04 June 2020
As repression and resistance rage on the streets of US cities more than a week after George Floyd’s murder, Socialist Worker spoke to eyewitnesses on the protests
03 June 2020
People across Britain “took the knee” at 6pm on Wednesday to protest against the police murder of George Floyd.
02 June 2020
An inspirational movement against police violence has taken on our rulers and terrified them.
02 June 2020
A revolt is exploding over George Floyd’s racist murder at the hands of the cops. Socialist Worker looks at a horrific history of killings in the United States—and the inspiring resistance to them