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

U.S. peace groups begin to challenge war hawks over Ukraine
January 26, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Meanwhile, cracks widen in the European support structure for provocative anti-Russia moves by the Biden administration.
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Politics

Who is invading whom? U.S. forces already in Eastern Europe
January 25, 2022 By John Wojcik
U.S. troops, missiles, tanks, and warplanes are already active in Poland, the Czech Republic, the Baltic States, and Ukraine.
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Mundo Popular

OTAN, no Rusia, responsable del peligro de guerra en Ucrania
January 23, 2022 By John Wojcik
Para poner fin a la crisis, la OTAN puede y debe comprometerse a nunca expandirse a Ucrania.
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Opinion

The West, not Russia, is responsible for the war danger in Ukraine
January 21, 2022 By John Wojcik
To end the crisis, NATO can and must pledge never to expand into Ukraine.
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Politics

Senate Republicans, after stormy debate, sink voting rights bill
January 20, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Democratic lawmakers and people’s movements continue the fight nevertheless.
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Mundo Popular

M.L. King sabía que la lucha por la democracia era tanto nacional como local
January 14, 2022 By John Wojcik
Ganar grandes batallas como la aprobación de una legislación nacional radical como la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1965 y las Leyes de Derechos Electorales que siguieron fueron, sin lugar a dudas, hitos en la lucha...
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Politics

King knew the fight for democracy was both national and local
January 14, 2022 By John Wojcik
Progressives must not ignore local races, a key arena in the fight to save democracy.
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Labor

Miners press Manchin to choose between them and the coal bosses
January 11, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
The pressure on him to back Build Back Better, coming from the United Mine Workers of America in West Virginia, may be the one thing that can get the recalcitrant senator to budge.
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