''Workers World'' is the official newspaper of the
Workers' World Party
The Workers World Party (WWP) is a revolutionary Marxist–Leninist communist party founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Marcy and his followers split from the SWP in 1958 over a series of long-standi ...
(WWP), a
communist party
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...
in the United States.
Sam Marcy
Sam Ballan (1911 – February 1, 1998), known by his pen name Sam Marcy, was an American lawyer, writer, and Marxist-Leninist activist of the post-World War II era. He co-founded the Workers World Party in 1959 and served as its chairperson unt ...
led a faction out of the
Socialist Workers Party and founded WWP in 1959; the first issue of ''Workers World'' was published in New York City in March of that year.
Content
''Workers World'' featured the writings of Sam Marcy and Workers World Party co-founder
Vincent Copeland
Vincent Copeland (June 19, 1915 – June 7, 1993) was an American actor, labor official, writer, and political activist. A communist, Copeland was an actor during the 1930s but soon turned to political activism. Turning to industrial labor, Copela ...
(the first editor as well) — among many others — until Copeland's passing in 1993 and, subsequently, Marcy's death in 1998.
"Sam Marcy; Founder of Workers World Party"
(obituary), ''Los Angeles Times
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'', February 10, 1998. The ideological positions of WWP were developed largely through articles in the newspaper, but it has never been strictly devoted to that line. Workers' struggles, racism and discrimination were, and continue to be, extensively covered in the paper.
Publication information
''Workers World'' has always operated by an all-volunteer staff. While distributed nationally from the beginning, it was a monthly paper until 1974, when it expanded into a weekly. It is published every week except for the first week of the New Year, and currently costs $1. Subscriptions are distributed worldwide, to homes, organizations and prisons; for many years the last page has printed pertinent articles in Spanish as ''Mundo Obrero''. ''Workers World'' also publishes nearly all of its articles on the websit
workers.org
becoming one of the first communist newspapers to take advantage of the internet to reach more people.
References
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External links
''Workers World''
official website.
Communist periodicals published in the United States
Newspapers established in 1959
Workers World Party
1959 establishments in the United States