John Wojcik

John Wojcik is Editor-in-Chief of People's World. He joined the staff as Labor Editor in May 2007 after working as a union meat cutter in northern New Jersey. There, he served as a shop steward and a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee. In the 1970s and '80s, he was a political action reporter for the Daily World, this newspaper's predecessor, and was active in electoral politics in Brooklyn, New York.

LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik

Politics

MAGA Republicans’ fascist push beaten back in most places nationwide
November 9, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Senate likely will remain in Democratic hands while razor-thin margins leave control of the House still undetermined.
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Politics

Decades after Berlin Wall fell, Cold War victors still trashing East Germany
November 9, 2022 By John Wojcik
The GDR, as the old East Germany was officially known, was a lot more than the totalitarian prop paraded out during anniversaries to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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Politics

Voters must choose between democracy and fascism
November 3, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Biden makes emergency televised appeal as record early voter turnout balloons and GOP vows to slash Social Security and Medicare.
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Labor

Corporate CEOs gone wild: Raking in inflation profits and busting unions
November 2, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
As they and their GOP lap dogs blame Dems for high costs it is they who are jacking up their own salaries and sending food prices through the roof.
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Politics

Media relies on Republican propaganda tools when predicting GOP victory
October 31, 2022 By John Wojcik
False narratives are being fed to a media which is all too ready to promote them.
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Politics

Post-stroke Fetterman bests ‘healthy’ fraud Dr. Oz any day
October 28, 2022 By John Wojcik
What lawmakers do when they are in office is far more important than any disabilities they suffer while they do it.
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Labor

Union canvassers reject New York Times’ gloomy outlook on the elections
October 17, 2022 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
In Philadelphia, Unite Here is working the inner city to bring out a voter tsunami that will crush fascist Republicans.
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Opinion

Hints of possible negotiations emerge in Ukraine war
October 4, 2022 By John Wojcik
They come as Russia makes annexations official and Ukraine reports advances along the battlefront.
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