John Wojcik
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Police board elections in Chicago: Decisive step toward real community control
Some 60-plus Chicagoans were elected Tuesday not just to oversee the Chicago Police Department but to help forge real community control over police behavior and to influence department policy overall. An overwhelming majority of those elected ran on platforms of curbing police violence and racism. “This is not just a review board,” said Frank Chapman, chair of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist… → Read More
Protests at SCOTUS as justices move to kill debt relief for 26,000,000
WASHINGTON—The Trump-appointed right wingers on the Court questioned the legality of President Biden’s plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in student debt, making it likely that the Supreme Court will kill his plan to forgive the loans of tens of millions of borrowers. → Read More
China calls for Ukraine ceasefire and issues 12-point peace plan
China on Friday called for a comprehensive ceasefire and negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and issued a 12-point plan to achieve peace. China rolled out its plan at the United Nations and in the international press over the weekend. → Read More
Peace talks on Ukraine war unlikely any time soon
Most of the corporate media hailed President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev this past weekend where he met Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia, whom the administration has said cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons or diplomatic negotiations, was told ahead of time, apparently, and wa... → Read More
The story behind the fiery Ohio train wreck worsens by the day
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—The more people learn about the great freight train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, the worse the story gets. The controlled burn of toxic chemicals here filled the air the residents breathe and covered the waters in an around town and the soil too with chemicals. → Read More
Biden faces down Republican fascists at State of the Union
WASHINGTON—In his State of the Union message to the Congress and the people Tuesday night, President Joe Biden faced many of the same fascist Republican lawmakers in the chamber who had backed an attempted coup to prevent him from taking office in January 2021. → Read More
For People’s World, Black History Month is every month
In the eyes of People’s World, Black History Month is far more than the weeks in February when we remember and celebrate the essential contributions of African Americans to U.S. history. → Read More
Leaders of a Nazi homeschooling operation unmasked in Ohio
One more piece of evidence of the damage to the nation’s social fabric done by-right wing conspiracy theorists, Republican lawmakers, Donald Trump, and their corporate backers is the recent unmasking of the leaders of a Nazi homeschool network in Ohio. Republican Gov. → Read More
Tyre Nichols murder underlines the need for tough new laws
People are asking why police murders of Black people keep happening. There was a time when Black people couldn’t eat at lunch counters. When they came back again and again, they were turned away again and again. → Read More
In major escalation in war, Biden sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine
Less than two hours after leading atomic scientists moved the world nuclear clock closer to midnight than it has ever been in history President Biden announced yesterday that the United States is sending Abrams tanks to fight the Russians in Ukraine. → Read More
Bridgeport, Chicago’s message to racists: Not in my neighborhood!
CHICAGO - By mid-month January residents of the Bridgeport neighborhood here, both Black and white, started turning up in big numbers to undo damage done to a fledgling soul food restaurant by racist vandals in this Chicago neighborhood. → Read More
Big business is behind extreme right takeover of the House
WASHINGTON—The fact that fascistic rightwing Republicans have been able to take over one of the two Houses of Congress is the result of strong backing they have received from major corporations and their lobbyists. → Read More
AFL-CIO calls for a truthful remembering of the words of Dr. King
WASHINGTON – Every year when the holiday remembering the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. comes around, opponents of civil rights and voting rights twist King’s calls for judging people “by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin” into support for their opposition t... → Read More
House approves revenge panel to settle Trump scores and defend insurrectionists
On a party-line vote of 221-211, with all Democrats opposed, the House yesterday approved the formation of a Trump revenge panel, officially called the Select Committee on Weaponization of the Federal Government. → Read More
Republicans unite behind fascists and approve new House rules
Once again a major premise of the major media – that there is a “moderate” wing of the GOP that might be counted on to resist the party’s insurrectionists – was proven false yesterday as all but one of the 220 Republican representatives united behind the rules the extreme right crafted for... → Read More
Insurrectionists who failed in 2021 took over the House last Friday
WASHINGTON – With an incredible 15-ballot election of Kevin McCarthy as House speaker the insurrectionists who failed to pull off their Jan.6, 2021 coup at the Capitol managed to take over the House of Representatives last Friday and are planning to cement their success with passage of new rules t... → Read More
Right-wing extremists block election of a House Speaker
WASHINGTON—Republicans were unable to elect a new House Speaker yesterday despite their new but slim majority. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, after three ballots and after giving away the store to a far-right gang of 20 Republicans, was unable to reach a 218 vote majority. → Read More
Working-class activism the key to progress on all fronts
Workers and their allies hit the streets in 2022 in ways that caused the country to pay attention to their issues, their causes, and their unions. Ther4e for all to see was the determination of an independent grass-roots union, the Amazon Labor Union, to confront one of the nation’s three richest... → Read More
New MAGA coup evidence revealed in GOP texts: Be scared!
It is a well-accepted maxim that elections have consequences. Voters may not have fully realized, however, that by putting Republicans in control of the House, even by the slimmest of margins, they were granting enormous power to people who openly plotted to overthrow the government. → Read More
Paul Whelan: Innocent prisoner of Russia or a spy?
Republicans and right-wingers, but also many Democrats and progressives, are worried now, after the release of Brittney Griner from prison in Russia, about the fate of Paul Whelan. The concern for Whelan is amplified by belief that he, like Griner, was an innocent victim. → Read More