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By Mark Lewis Taylor Princeton Theological Seminary, August 3, 2026, posted by Free Mumia lists. Taylor is a founder of Educators for Mumia.  Mark Taylor, third from left; Johanna Fernandez fifth from left, Philadelphia, May 16, 2007. I received word some days ago from Sophia Williams of the movement for . . . Continue reading For Johanna Fernández – ¡Presente! at Workers.org

[Category: U.S. and Canada]

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August 2 is an anniversary that no one wants to celebrate but one that needs to be remembered. On that day in 2010, six Black teenagers from two families drowned in the Red River in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was a day that would break your heart. Maude Warner (left), mother . . . Continue reading Drowning in the cesspool of racism at Workers.org

[Category: Racism and Self-Determination, Sports, Arts and Culture, U.S. and Canada, Youth and Students]

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[l] at 8/7/26 4:00pm
Notas del editor: El 23 de julio, el gobernador de Illinois, J. B. Pritzker, firmó el proyecto de ley 4323 de la Cámara de Representantes, que designa el 25 de julio de cada año como el «Día de Emmett Till» para recordar el legado de Till y de su difunta . . . Continue reading Por qué la vida de Emmett Till sigue siendo importante at Workers.org

[Category: Editorials, Mundo Obrero, Racism and Self-Determination, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 8/6/26 9:58pm
Police in Austin, Texas, actively participated in state-sponsored terrorism against the Black community on July 29. After responding to a 911 call by 17-year-old Anthoneil Willams III, three officers repaid him for involving them by shooting him 20 times. The community has responded to this lynching by the Austin Police . . . Continue reading A campaign of terror at Workers.org

[Category: Racism and Self-Determination, U.S. and Canada]

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Cleveland library workers ready to strike Workers at the Cleveland Public Library, some of whom make less than $17 an hour, authorized a strike by a nearly unanimous vote on July 12. Represented by Service Employees Union (SEIU) Local 1199, they will strike on Aug. 24 if an agreement is . . . Continue reading On the picket line at Workers.org

[Category: U.S. and Canada, Workers unite!]

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Cleveland library workers ready to strike Workers at the Cleveland Public Library, some of whom make less than $17 an hour, authorized a strike by a nearly unanimous vote on July 12. Represented by Service Employees Union (SEIU) Local 1199, they will strike on Aug. 24 if an agreement is . . . Continue reading On the picket line<br><span class="streamer2">Library workers, attorneys, healthcare workers </span> at Workers.org

[Category: U.S. and Canada, Workers unite!]

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[l] at 8/6/26 9:52pm
Ismail Haniyeh Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) posted the following statement on Aug. 2, 2026, marking the second anniversary of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyehs assassination by the Zionist state of Israel. The conspiracy to disarm Hamas will lead nowhere and has already failed. We give the world the glad . . . Continue reading Iran declares ‘anti-Zionist resistance remains unshakable’ at Workers.org

[Category: Stop imperialist war and occupation, West Asia/ North Africa, Iran]

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[l] at 8/6/26 9:50pm
¿Qué significa la citación judicial de la Comisión de Medios y Arbitrios de la Cámara de Representantes, en la que se exige a tres organizaciones por la paz y la justicia —BreakThrough News, The Peoples Forum y Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research— que entreguen todas sus comunicaciones internas, así como . . . Continue reading EE.UU. utiliza las citaciones judiciales como arma contra la izquierda at Workers.org

[Category: Mundo Obrero, Revolutionary Theory and Practice, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 8/5/26 9:41pm
Download the PDF Editorial: Behind the Ceuta crisis Political prisoner Mumia Abu‑Jamal petitions U.N. Mundo Obrero: EE.UU. utiliza las citaciones judiciales como arma contra la izquierda Pages 3-6 are usable as handouts. BW version PDF More PDF back-issues here. Continue reading PDF of August 6 issue at Workers.org

[Category: Global, U.S. and Canada, Workers World Party]

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[l] at 8/5/26 4:13pm
Johanna Fernandez with Mumia Abu-Jamal. The following poem is dedicated by activist Julia Wright to the revolutionary spirit of Dr. Johanna Fernandez, an Afro-Dominican prison abolitionist and author who died at the age of 54 on July 30 after a long bout of cancer. In 2010 she wrote and produced . . . Continue reading To Johanna with love, may you rest in peace and power at Workers.org

[Category: Prisons: tear them down, Racism and Self-Determination]

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[l] at 8/5/26 4:10pm
The Islamic Republic News Agency posted the following article on its website on July 25, 2026. (en.irna.ir) Irans top military commander has declared a new battlefield equation, warning that every Iranian civilian martyred in U.S. attacks will be met with the death of an American soldier. Major General Ali Abdollahi, . . . Continue reading Iran issues warning to invading U.S. military at Workers.org

[Category: Stop imperialist war and occupation, West Asia/ North Africa]

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[l] at 8/5/26 4:09pm
James Aaron speaking at memorial for Carl Hampton, killed by cops in 1970. Houston — Black Panthers, along with other activists who knew and loved Carl Hampton, held a memorial for him at his grave in Golden Gate Cemetery here on July 25. Carl Hampton was organizing for the Black . . . Continue reading Houston: Black Panther revolutionary honored at Workers.org

[Category: Racism and Self-Determination, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 8/5/26 4:05pm
The flood at Camp Mystic in the Texas Hill Country in the summer of 2025 was an example of how not to handle rescue and recovery from natural disaster. Capitalist and socialist societies are often compared using varied criteria, from economic to political. Perhaps one of the most telling and . . . Continue reading Natural disasters: capitalist neglect vs socialist response at Workers.org

[Category: Climate and Environmental Crisis, Human needs before profits]

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[l] at 8/4/26 6:54pm
An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. It can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. One such enclave that gained international attention on July 30 was Ceuta, Spain, a peninsula located on the coast . . . Continue reading Behind the Ceuta crisis at Workers.org

[Category: Africa, Editorials, Europe, Im/migrants and Refugees, Top, Morocco, Spain]

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[l] at 8/4/26 6:45pm
Lawyers for Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filed a 20-page petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on his behalf on July 28 outlining nearly 45 years of “failures of the criminal legal system” in his case. The petition, filed by Brett Grote of the Abolitionist Law . . . Continue reading Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s petition to United Nations at Workers.org

[Category: Prisons: tear them down, Racism and Self-Determination, U.S. and Canada]

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[l] at 8/4/26 6:22pm
After months of looking for work, a young acquaintance of mine finally landed a job manufacturing ships at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, including for the Pentagon. This job was the only job they could find after a year of searching. Over 200 people turned out for an emergency demonstration in . . . Continue reading Military-industrial complex: Bad for workers at Workers.org

[Category: Commentary, Global, Stop imperialist war and occupation]

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[l] at 8/4/26 5:31pm
No more Hiroshimas and Nagasakis! By Kathy Durkin This article was first published in Workers World on Aug. 14, 2016. Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, went down in history as days of infamy for U.S. imperialism — and days of catastrophe for the people of Japan. At 8:15 a.m. on . . . Continue reading Marxist analyses of the U.S. A-bombing of Japan August 1945 at Workers.org

[Category: Commentary, Global, Workers World Party]

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[l] at 8/3/26 3:15pm
The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA – Tehran) published the following press briefing on Aug. 3, 2026. Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei. Credit: IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says continued U.S. attacks, sanctions and intimidation targeting Iranian commercial vessels show that Washington is still pursuing a policy of . . . Continue reading Iran: Harassment of commercial shipping shows U.S. is still pursuing confrontation at Workers.org

[Category: Stop imperialist war and occupation, West Asia/ North Africa, Iran]

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[l] at 8/3/26 3:05pm
Palestinian resistance factions The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, posted the following statement on July 31, 2026, at the Hamas Movement’s official website: https://t.me/kUoQCMfm8bI1NWE0 The Hamas Movement, along with the Palestinian factions, has approached the negotiation process and the mediators’ proposals for the full implementation of the second phase of the . . . Continue reading Hamas’ latest update on negotiations at Workers.org

[Category: Stop imperialist war and occupation, West Asia/ North Africa]

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[l] at 8/3/26 3:04pm
Below is a speech, “Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz,” delivered by First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. He was speaking at the closing of the 7th Ordinary Session of the National . . . Continue reading <span class="streamer">Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel:</span><br> ‘The path is difficult … but our will to overcome is unwavering. We will win!’ at Workers.org

[Category: Health Care, Latin America & the Caribbean, Revolutionary Theory and Practice, Stop imperialist war and occupation, Cuba]

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[l] at 8/3/26 2:44pm
By Shahid Comrade  The author, general secretary of the Pakistani-U.S. Freedom Forum, wrote this report on his organization’s approval of the following declaration. Today, on June 21, 2026, at Lahori Chilli, Coney Island Avenue, which is also called Little Pakistan, we start by remembering our loved ones who have passed . . . Continue reading Pakistani community meeting in NYC evaluates new possibilities at Workers.org

[Category: Im/migrants and Refugees, Prisons: tear them down, Stop imperialist war and occupation, U.S. and Canada, West Asia/ North Africa, Workers unite!]

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[l] at 7/31/26 4:28pm
Workers World would like to bring information to its readers about the development of a mass youth movement in India, which at this moment in self-defense is mobilizing opposition to the reactionary government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his billionaire-friendly Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).  The writer, Neha . . . Continue reading How the Cockroach Janta Party protests have shaken Modi’s stranglehold over India at Workers.org

[Category: Asia & the Pacific, Youth and Students, India]

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