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

Politics

Public impeachment hearing reveals new phone call confirming Trump conspiracy
November 14, 2019 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Democrats vote down illegal and diversionary GOP attempt to haul in and expose the whistleblower.
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Opinion

Thoughts on the Berlin Wall 30 years after its demise
November 8, 2019 By John Wojcik
East Germany was a lot more than the totalitarian prop that gets paraded out to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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Politics

Trump and GOP sustain major losses in elections this week
November 6, 2019 By John Wojcik
Voters in Kentucky and Virginia send the president a message: Your coat tails are very short.
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Politics

Trump sinks deeper into the impeachment mud with each passing day
October 30, 2019 By John Wojcik
Parade of witnesses each day testify that the most damaging claims of the whistleblowers are true.
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World

German left wins Oct. 27 vote but far right makes big gains
October 29, 2019 By John Wojcik
Although the neo-fascist AfD made major gains the Left Party came in first with its biggest vote ever anywhere in Germany.
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Opinion

Taylor testimony decimates Trump’s ‘quid pro quo’ defense
October 23, 2019 By John Wojcik
Worse yet, it indicates the president directed the hijacking of much of the U.S. government to serve his own personal interests.
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U.S.

Giuliani’s mobster pals arrested on campaign finance violations
October 11, 2019 By John Wojcik
The two gangsters had been wined and dined by Trump at the White House and at private clubs by the president’s son.
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ILCA

Montgomery, Alabama has first Black mayor in its two-century history
October 11, 2019 By John Wojcik
A historic election victory in Alabama this week shows that the “worst of times” in American politics can, if the people rise up, also become the “best of times.”
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