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 and a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee. 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

U.S.

Labor rolls out biggest voter protection effort ever
June 12, 2012 By John Wojcik
At a packed press conference the AFL-CIO, joined by the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza and the Generational Alliance, announced the launching of what could be the biggest voter protection effort in U.S. history.
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Opinion

Watergate was only one of Nixon’s five wars
June 11, 2012 By John Wojcik
Forty years after the news of the Watergate burglary, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein take on certain historical revisionists who claim Watergate was nothing more than a misguided political caper.
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U.S.

Wisconsin workers end Walker control of Senate
June 6, 2012 By John Wojcik
Although he held onto his seat, Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker lost control of the state Senate.
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U.S.

Wisconsin: The uprising, the recall, and the fight to come
June 5, 2012 By John Wojcik
For the labor movement and its allies, today's recall election of Scott Walker is only part of a groundswell of inspiring actions that began with a historic uprising early in 2011.
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Opinion

Ten dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field
May 25, 2012 By John Wojcik
They were on strike but the strike was just a week old so people were not yet in the direst of straights.
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U.S.

Latina moms in Chicago: “We’re done crying!”
May 23, 2012 By John Wojcik
Except for one grandmother, the rest of the 20 or so women who patrol the streets around Davis Elementary School here every weekday are in their 20s and 30s.
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U.S.

Foreclosed homeowner stands his ground on his own porch
May 21, 2012 By John Wojcik
Lamont Newsome stands his ground at a battle post he and his loyal canine partner have maintained every day for a year and three months now - his front porch.
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U.S.

Thousands converge on Chicago on first big day of protests
May 19, 2012 By John Wojcik
Thousands rallied and marched peacefully in downtown Chicago Saturday in the biggest protests so far against NATO, the relic of the cold war holding a May 20-21 summit here.
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