{{Short description|American communist publication}} {{italic title}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} '''''Workers World''''' is the official newspaper of the [[Workers' World Party]] (WWP), a [[communist party]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last=[[Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr.]] |date=February 9, 1998 |title=Sam Marcy, Marxist Writer, Dies at 86 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/09/nyregion/sam-marcy-marxist-writer-dies-at-86.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230417211558/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/09/nyregion/sam-marcy-marxist-writer-dies-at-86.html |archive-date=April 17, 2023}}</ref> [[Sam Marcy]] led a faction out of the [[Socialist Workers' Party (United States)|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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1o8fAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22workers+world%22+newspaper&pg=PA903 ''Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities''], Washington, D.C., 1967, p. 903.</ref>
==Content== ''Workers World'' featured the writings of Sam Marcy and Workers World Party co-founder [[Vincent Copeland]] (who was the paper's first editor)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Bruce Lambert |date=June 10, 1993 |title=Vincent Copeland, 77, Is Dead; Led Anti-War Protests in 1960's |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/10/obituaries/vincent-copeland-77-is-dead-led-anti-war-protests-in-1960-s.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141208150253/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/10/obituaries/vincent-copeland-77-is-dead-led-anti-war-protests-in-1960-s.html |archive-date=December 8, 2014}}</ref> — among many others — until Copeland's passing in 1993 and subsequently Marcy's death in 1998.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-10-mn-17505-story.html "Sam Marcy; Founder of Workers World Party"] (obituary), ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', February 10, 1998.</ref> 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]] and [[Minnie Bruce Pratt]] were managing editors of the newspaper until their deaths in 2014 and 2023 respectively.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=EMMA BREITMAN |date=June 2, 2023 |title=Leslie Feinberg, Trailblazing LGBTQ Activist, Changed the Way We Talk About Trans Identity |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/leslie-feinberg-lgbtq-activist-transgender |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=[[Teen Vogue]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=La Shonda Mims |date=July 19, 2023 |title=Minnie Bruce Pratt’s voice is needed now more than ever |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/07/19/minnie-bruce-pratt-southern-lgbtq/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102153636/https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/07/19/minnie-bruce-pratt-southern-lgbtq/ |archive-date=November 2, 2023}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /> 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,<ref name=":1" /> becoming one of the first communist newspapers to take advantage of the internet to reach more people.
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==External links== *[http://www.workers.org/ ''Workers World''] official website. [[Category:Communist periodicals published in the United States]] [[Category:Newspapers established in 1959]] [[Category:Workers World Party]] [[Category:1959 establishments in the United States]]