Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler has written over 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. His book News for the 99% is a selection of his writings over the last 50 years representing a history of the nation and the world from a working-class point of view. After residing in Baltimore for many years, Tim now lives in Sequim, Wash.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler

CP100

Ben Riskin, the Communist behind “portal-to-portal” pay
August 20, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
He fought to win workers pay for the time it takes them to get to and from their job, but corporate-controlled Congressmen took it away.
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CP100

Scottsboro and the quiet courage of Mary Licht
August 8, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
Licht was herself in jail when she learned of the Scottsboro Nine. “I told my co-worker that when we were released," she said, "I would secure the International Labor Defense (ILD) for their case.” She was...
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Opinion

Answer Trump’s smear of Baltimore by voting him out
August 1, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
The Baltimore Sun got it right: “Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”
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James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
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U.S.

Victory for long term care, but sharp fight to protect rural health care
May 23, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
It is a war on two fronts, a case of government giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
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CP100

The fighting history of Earl George, for worker rights, equality
May 22, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
Tim Wheeler recalls the profound influence Earl George had on him and his family, as well as his great contributions to the ILWU and the Daily World.
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News

Boeing engineers: Company was negligent, Trump’s FAA undermined inspections
May 9, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
The privatization of safety inspections is a classic case of Boeing assigning the fox to guard the henhouse.
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Culture

Seattle Labor Chorus sings of 1919 General Strike
April 18, 2019 By Tim Wheeler
Workers from 100 unions a century ago walked off their jobs in solidarity with striking Seattle and Tacoma shipyard workers, idling the city for five days.
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