As of Aug. 8, the Pentagon has deployed 3,000 Marines and sailors to the seas near Iran, some on civilian vessels. Three weeks earlier, the U.S. “Secretary of Defense” Lloyd Austin, sent “the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner, F-35 fighters and F-16 fighters to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibil

In the 1930s, the German company I.G. Farben was looking for a solution to the opium shortage and the company’s inability to create new painkillers. The company found the solution in a chemical then-called Dolophine. Now called methadone (Methadose, Diskets), an urban legend circulated that D

A global economic crisis is emerging, and for readers of Workers World, this comes as little to no surprise.  As Marxists and dialectical materialists, we are cautious about making predictions. It is no secret that corporations are bragging about record profits at the same time working people are

A seismic shift is sending shock waves through the global economy.  The well-established capitalist disorder, dominated by U.S. imperialism and in place since World War II, is on shaky ground. Extreme economic sanctions imposed on Russia are dragging the whole world into a war that started long b

By Larry Holmes  “In the absence of organization, working people do not constitute a class but rather an incoherent mass, scattered over the whole country and broken up by their mutual competition.” — Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto  To all who consider themsel