PWW Editorial Board

PWW traces its lineage to the Daily Worker newspaper, founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists in Chicago in 1924. On the front page of its first edition, the paper declared that “big business interests, bankers, merchant princes, landlords, and other profiteers” should fear the Daily Worker. It pledged to “raise the standards of struggle against the few who rob and plunder the many.”

LATEST ARTICLES BY PWW Editorial Board

Opinion

Tale of two worlds
September 19, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board
At the AFL-CIO labor convention, teabaggers, birthers and other haters seem a world away. Firefighters, ironworkers, teachers and office professionals all took the floor making the case for a labor movement fully engaged on fighting for...
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Opinion

Crystal Lee Sutton: Thunder in North Carolina
September 19, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board
In the 1960s and early 1970s, textile workers in North Carolina inspired labor and workers everywhere with their successful assault on the Southern, non-union fortress, built by JP Stevens. In 1967, the Steven’s sweatshop empire included...
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Opinion

Double-header for Labor Day
September 8, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board
On Labor Day, the working people of the U.S. and all their allies stand poised to win two historic battles — one that ends the national shame of 50 million people living without health insurance, and...
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U.S.

The ugly stain of Republican politics and Judge Sotomayor
August 11, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board
The confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Latina and third woman ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme court should be regarded with a deep sense of satisfaction by all lovers of justice in this...
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Opinion

Bring troops home from Afghanistan
May 20, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board
The U.S. Senate is poised to vote before Memorial Day on funds to continue the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through Sept. 30. The House of Representatives has already approved a supplemental appropriation, but we can still...
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Opinion

EDITORIAL: May Day—a great day to support the workers newspaper
April 3, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board
May 1 — May Day — International Workers’ Holiday, and now, increasingly, a day to march for immigrant rights. This important world celebration, which was born right here in Chicago, USA, is being reclaimed by the...
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Opinion

Movies for Black History Month
February 14, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board
Viewing suggestions from our readers and staff.
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Opinion

EDITORIAL: Happy birthday, Lenin
April 21, 2006 By PWW Editorial Board
More than 60 years ago, the African American poet Langston Hughes wrote, “Lenin walks around the world, Frontiers cannot bar him … Lenin walks around the world, Black, brown and white receive him.”
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