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Workers in Myanmar are striking against the military coup. …

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

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. …

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. …

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. …

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? …

Biden’s proposed $15 minimum wage may be an improvement, but it does not at all address the fundamental inequalities resulting from capitalism. …

Indian farmers have been protesting for two months against “reforms” that would only further enrich the rich. …

Ten years ago, the people of Egypt started a movement that forced their dictator out. …

Ten years after the Arab Spring, Tunisians are protesting again. …

Hank Aaron was a great baseball player and a brave campaigner against racism. …

Michigan prosecutors have charged former governor Rick Snyder with crimes relating to the Flint water crisis. …

The inequality of the Israeli vaccination program is part of a long history of the mistreatment of Palestinians. …

In a reaction to the Capitol attack, some are calling for a new domestic terrorism law. Would this just give the government more oppressive power? …

One Night in Miami raises important questions about individuals and social movements. …

A new Netflix documentary shows how the government orchestrated the crack epidemic that devastated black communities. …

The Georgia senate runoff election was the most expensive senate election in U.S. history. Does all that money spent benefit the average person? …

The removal of right-wing figures from social media might seem like a necessary response to the attack on the Capitol, but the companies’ ability to do so could also be used against leftists. …

Why are businesses only cutting ties with Trump now, instead of any time in the last four years? …

Martin Luther King Jr., known for his activism against racial segregation, was also a critic of capitalism. …

The attack on the capitol was an ugly attempt by Trump to stay in power, but it was not a coup. The United States would know what a coup is, having orchestrated many of them. …

The United States may present the illusion of democracy, but its election system is set up to favor the rich. There was no real democracy to be stolen. …

Google fired an AI researcher for refusing to censor her own research, which was critical of the type of AI work Google does. What is Google afraid of? …