Month: September 2020

Land mismanagement and climate change have contributed to the scale of the recent fires in California, and the COVID pandemic has exacerbated its effects. The politicians have not addressed these issues, because they serve the profits of corporations. …

Microplastics, found in clothing, are a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry. …

When will a vaccine for COVID-19 be ready? The short answer is not for a while. …

Students, teachers and parents this fall are facing the consequences of our nation’s leaders’ inability and unwillingness to control the coronavirus pandemic. …

The nurses won with a majority of 70 percent, but their fight is hardly over. …

Two of the three cops involved were not charged at all and one was charged with “wanton endangerment” for firing shots that might have hurt her neighbors, not murder or even manslaughter. …

Since the explosion of outrage following the police murder of George Floyd, millions of Americans …

It’s easy to understand why people are hesitant to believe official information …

We win our rights through struggle, not the Supreme Court …

The National Football League (NFL) season has started again, but this time with a couple of twists. …

Young women in France are protesting against sexist clothing discrimination …

All the Democrats have done for climate change is pay it lip service. …

We’re Not All in This Together The pandemic has ushered in a new reality that …

Wildfires have scorched more than five million acres, an area the size of Connecticut, as …

The U.S. education system has been presented as a pathway of opportunity for every generation – especially those from poor and working class backgrounds. …

Since 1970, the planet’s wildlife populations have decreased by an average of 68 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2020 Living Planet Report. …

Socialism 101:What is Socialism – and Why it’s up to the Working Class to Save …

Link to videos of this townhall Back To School? This is Not Education! The U.S. …

The Capitalist System: How it Works Why it Needs to Go …

Reports of orcas ramming boats near the coasts of Spain and Portugal have been flooding in. …

A week ago, the camp on Lesbos, a Greek island, caught fire. It held 12,000 people, which is four times the number of occupants the Greek government says could safely live there. …

50 miners died in Congo last week. They aren’t the first, and these types of disasters aren’t rare. The system of capitalism accepts the deaths of workers for profit. …

Recently, nine of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines for COVID-19 pledged that they’ll only ask the FDA for approval when the vaccines they’re working on are proven to be safe and effective …

Did Trump call the soldiers sent to fight in the U.S.’s endless wars “suckers,” as former Trump associates have claimed? …

Daniel Prude, a Black man visiting relatives in Rochester, New York, died at the hands of Rochester police after being arrested on March 17, 2020 …

As if the COVID pandemic wasn’t enough for Californians to deal with, the state is now seeing record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and smoke. …

Before COVID-19, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority served 8 million people daily. Since COVID-19, it’s losing $200 million per week and suddenly has a predicted deficit of $16 billion over four years …

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2020 has indeed been the worst year. But further events like the ones that define this year will not end with it, unless the root cause – capitalism – is removed. …

Capitalism is a cancer that disproportionately affects Black people. …

One struggle we can learn from was the struggle of coal miners that led to the “Battle of Blair Mountain” almost a 100 years ago in West Virginia …

The inhumane conditions facing those locked in prisons across the U.S. today are not new …

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about herd immunity in relation to COVID-19. But what is herd immunity, and what does it mean in relation to COVID-19? …

New York City was the first place where COVID reached critical proportions in the U.S. …

Following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, tens of thousands of people took to the streets around the country to protest this latest violence at the hands of the police …

In a demonstration of the power of the working class, workers in Belarus have gone on strike in support of the protestors against state repression. …

Is it really “lucky” to have to work in the midst of a pandemic? Meanwhile, the super-rich are still getting richer. …

Athletes are right to walk out in opposition to racism and police brutality. But why did Obama tell them to return to playing? …