Month: February 2021

To the drug companies, lost lives are nothing more than dollar amounts. …

Workers in Myanmar are striking against the military coup. …

Celebrating the life of Robert Williams, fighter for Black rights. …

The economic and military domination of the U.S. remains the highest priority of the Biden administration. It is certainly a return to normal — but it is the same normal that has been the problem for a long time. …

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. …

This is an overview of the various far-right groups that were involved in the storming of the Capitol. …

The rush to re-open is not because the system cares about the education of children. …

The disaster in Texas is just another reminder of what’s in store for us if we continue to leave our future in the hands of those who run a system guided by the drive for profits, regardless of the impact. Our future depends on our determination to come together and fight against this system – to fight for a world that represents all of our interests. …

Kim Moody is a longtime activist, socialist, a founder of Labor Notes, and author of many books on rank and file unionism and politics. …

Texas politicians showed how little they care about the people of Texas during a crisis. …

The crisis in Texas was caused, in multiple ways, by capitalism. …

Under capitalism, police will literally guard dumpsters full of thrown-out food rather than let people help themselves. …

No worker of any race or gender should have their livelihood subjected to pleasing the whims of individual clients. This racist legacy should be abolished, and living wages should be guaranteed for all labor. …

In February of 1834, the women working at the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills went on strike against a pay cut – an early demonstration of working women’s organizing activity. …

Johns Hopkins University may have health experts on staff, but that doesn’t stop it from spreading disease by re-opening in-person classes. …

People are justifiably losing trust in official institutions, but many are replacing that with belief in conspiracy theories. …

Sanofi is laying off workers, including researchers, while paying dividends, and it has not been able to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. …

With information on vaccinations difficult to find from official sources, people have been making their own websites that provide the information. …

Prisoners are at high risk for COVID-19, potentially making prison a death sentence. …

ICE has cruelly deported 72 Haitian immigrants, contradicting both Biden’s policy and a court order. …

The police pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl, showing once again that they are not here to help us. …

After the military took control in Myanmar via a coup, the Burmese people are protesting against military rule. …

David Bell, a Black man, died after being denied medical treatment three times. Is he a victim of racism? …

The GameStop situation shows that we can’t win by playing the capitalists’ game. …

Biden’s order to end the use of private prisons is completely inadequate for ending the abuses of the prison system. …

The Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s -1970s was one of the most significant social …

Amazon workers in Alabama are organizing to form a union, for good reasons. …

Oil refinery workers in Grandpuits, France, have been on strike against the closure of their plant. …

The NFL is taking COVID-19 precautions for the Super Bowl. Why don’t we have equivalent precautions for schools? …

Black people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. This is part of a pattern of inequality. …

The working class isn’t getting low interest rate loans, but the capitalists are. …

Good news: the California Department of Public Health is no longer accepting requests to waive nurse-to-patient ratios. …

Democrats criticize Republicans for taking “Dark Money,” but they are guilty of it themselves. …

Newsom decided to lift the stay at home order, but provided no scientific justification for doing so. …

Biden might talk about the climate, but his administration has been approving oil and gas drilling. …

After the arrest of Alexei Navalny, Russians have been protesting against Putin’s rule. …

Millions of vaccine doses have gone missing. Why can’t the capitalist system get this right? …

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, and died on …