John Wojcik

John Wojcik is Editor-in-Chief of People's World. He joined the staff as Labor Editor in May 2007 after working as a union meat cutter in northern New Jersey. There, he served as a shop steward, as a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee, and as an activist in the union's campaign to win public support for Wal-Mart workers. In the 1970s and '80s he was a political action reporter for the Daily World, this newspaper's predecessor, and was active in electoral politics in Brooklyn, New York.

LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik

News

Shocking reversal: McConnell says he’d back Trump for president in 2024
February 26, 2021 By John Wojcik
New white supremacist threats emerge as GOP minimizes Jan. 6 attack on Capitol and line up for Trump at CPAC gathering this weekend.
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News

Lies and white supremacy fuel Republican voter suppression campaign
February 25, 2021 By John Wojcik
Republicans whine about “cancel culture,” but it’s they who are scheming to cancel the right to vote for millions—especially people of color.
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News

In plain sight, GOP senators show sabotage is their game
February 24, 2021 By John Wojcik
At one hearing, Republican perpetrators of Jan. 6 attack try to hide their responsibility for it, and at another GOP tries to sink the national rescue plan.
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Opinion

Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin playing a dangerous game
February 23, 2021 By John Wojcik
In order to leverage the 50-50 split in the Senate and make himself a power broker, Manchin is endangering the entire Biden agenda.
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News

It will take more than dumping Trump to stop the neo-fascists
February 22, 2021 By John Wojcik
It wasn’t until the 1980s that fascist-like ideologies and movements saw a strong revival. It's no accident that their rise paralleled that of neoliberal economic and social policies.
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U.S.

Historic second Trump impeachment trial opens today
February 9, 2021 By John Wojcik
Senate will decide whether to convict a criminal ex-president of incitement of insurrection that led to death and destruction in the U.S. Capitol on Jan.6.
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Politics

The Senate’s Cowardly Lions prepare to let Trump off the hook
February 8, 2021 By John Wojcik
Despite a trial that will mark Trump’s crimes and their historic cowardice forever, GOP senators can’t muster the courage to impeach.
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U.S.

Even Trump’s impeachment lawyers are not defending his attempted coup
February 1, 2021 By John Wojcik
Republicans are unwilling to defend Trump’s provoking of the white supremacist insurrection, focusing instead on the alleged “unconstitutionality” of impeaching a former president.
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