# Workers World (newspaper)

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American communist publication

***Workers World*** is the official newspaper of the [Workers' World Party](/source/Workers'_World_Party) (WWP), a [communist party](/source/Communist_party) in the United States.[1] [Sam Marcy](/source/Sam_Marcy) led a faction out of the [Socialist Workers Party](/source/Socialist_Workers'_Party_(United_States)) and founded WWP in 1959; the first issue of *Workers World* was published in New York City in March of that year.[2]

## Content

*Workers World* featured the writings of Sam Marcy and Workers World Party co-founder [Vincent Copeland](/source/Vincent_Copeland) (who was the paper's first editor)[3] — among many others — until Copeland's passing in 1993 and subsequently Marcy's death in 1998.[4] The ideological positions of WWP were developed largely through articles in the newspaper, but it has never been strictly devoted to that line. LGBT activists [Leslie Feinberg](/source/Leslie_Feinberg) and [Minnie Bruce Pratt](/source/Minnie_Bruce_Pratt) were managing editors of the newspaper until their deaths in 2014 and 2023 respectively.[5][6] 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.[3] 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 website workers.org,[5] becoming one of the first communist newspapers to take advantage of the internet to reach more people.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr.](/source/Robert_Mcg._Thomas_Jr.) (February 9, 1998). ["Sam Marcy, Marxist Writer, Dies at 86"](https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/09/nyregion/sam-marcy-marxist-writer-dies-at-86.html). *The New York Times*.{{[cite news](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [*Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1o8fAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22workers+world%22+newspaper&pg=PA903), Washington, D.C., 1967, p. 903.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_3-1) Bruce Lambert (June 10, 1993). ["Vincent Copeland, 77, Is Dead; Led Anti-War Protests in 1960's"](https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/10/obituaries/vincent-copeland-77-is-dead-led-anti-war-protests-in-1960-s.html). *The New York Times*.{{[cite news](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Sam Marcy; Founder of Workers World Party"](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-10-mn-17505-story.html) (obituary), *[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)*, February 10, 1998.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_5-1) EMMA BREITMAN (June 2, 2023). ["Leslie Feinberg, Trailblazing LGBTQ Activist, Changed the Way We Talk About Trans Identity"](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/leslie-feinberg-lgbtq-activist-transgender). *[Teen Vogue](/source/Teen_Vogue)*. Retrieved November 3, 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** La Shonda Mims (July 19, 2023). ["Minnie Bruce Pratt's voice is needed now more than ever"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/07/19/minnie-bruce-pratt-southern-lgbtq/). *The Washington Post*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20231102153636/https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/07/19/minnie-bruce-pratt-southern-lgbtq/) from the original on November 2, 2023.

## External links

- [*Workers World*](http://www.workers.org/) official website.

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