Workers World is the official newspaper of the Workers World Party

Workers World Party

Workers World Party is a far-left political party in the United States, founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy. Marcy and his followers split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1958 over a series of long-standing differences, among them Marcy's group's support for Henry A...

 (WWP), a communist party

Communist party

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 in the United States

United States

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. Sam Marcy

Sam Marcy

Sam Marcy was an American Marxist of the post-World War II era. In 1959, a group he led founded the Workers World Party, which continues to the present day....

 led a faction out of the Socialist Workers Party and founded WWP in 1959; the first issue of Workers World was published out of New York City

New York City

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 in March of that year.

Content

Workers World featured the writings of Sam Marcy and Workers World Party co-founder Vince Copeland (the first editor as well) - among many others - until Copeland's passing in 1993 and, subsequently, Marcy's death in 1998. The ideological positions of WWP were developed largely through articles in the newspaper, but it has never been strictly devoted to 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 50 cents. 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, becoming one of the first communist newspapers to take advantage of the internet to reach more people.