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

Millionaire Manchin’s coal money behind his knifing of Build Back Better
December 21, 2021 By John Wojcik
Angry Dems and other supporters of the legislation trying to see if it is possible to save at least some parts of the bill.
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World

U.S. and NATO play with fire in their latest anti-Russia campaign
December 6, 2021 By John Wojcik
Major newspapers and cable networks, asking no questions, march to the beat of dangerous war drums.
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U.S.

Trump Supreme Court justices all but admit that they’ll kill women’s choice
December 2, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Pro-choice activists ring the Court, vowing to never give up the fight to preserve the constitutionally-protected right of women to an abortion.
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U.S.

Overcoming House GOP leader’s filibuster, House passes Biden’s Build Back Better bill
November 19, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Sen. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, votes down the military budget, declaring that the BBB is far more important than more money for war.
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Labor

UAW’s John Deere members OK six-year contract
November 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
The historic strike “captured the mood of a nation in search of fairness in wages and benefits for workers.”
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Culture

Squid Game: A powerful exposure of how capitalists use debt to maintain power
November 12, 2021 By John Wojcik
Squid Game is a powerful indictment of how capitalism uses debt as an instrument to control the working class. The rulers are always ready to offer credit cards, loans, and get-rich-quick schemes, anything but jobs and...
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News

House vote on historic Build Back Better and infrastructure bills draws near
November 4, 2021 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
As Dems manage to get family leave and lower prescription prices back into the human infrastructure measure, they face continued sniping from so-called “moderates.”
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Labor

John Deere UAW members vote down second tentative pact
November 4, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Union members, determined to play the decisive role in deciding what is acceptable to them, send their leaders back for a third try.
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