The government’s ineffective enforcement of workplace safety standards during the pandemic is due to the fundamental pressures of the capitalist system. …
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. …
This is an overview of the various far-right groups that were involved in the storming of the Capitol. …
Globally, as of this writing in mid-December 2020, there have been more than 72 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (number constantly rising), with over 1.6 million deaths. The U.S. accounts for about 19 percent of these deaths, while comprising 4 percent of the world population. …
Some claim that the solution to ending the control of the rich over the system is to get money out of politics and demand more transparency. But how would this work, when the entire system serves the interests of the rich? We need a system that operates in the interest of the majority, not the interest of a small exploiting capitalist class. While the wealthy may own everything, working people are the ones who make it all run. That is where our power lies, in the workplaces and in the streets, not in the ballot box. …
We must be the generation to decide we will end systemic racism and save our planet. …
Climate change is leading to stronger, deadlier hurricanes. …
Murdering Black boys with toy guns but letting far-right vigilantes kill protesters is not justice. …
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
Joe Biden recently announced his policy proposals for addressing climate change. So what does this supposedly revolutionary plan entail? …
For nearly ninety years, Native Americans have protested that a racist slur was the name and mascot of the Washington, D.C. NFL team …
The South Pole is warming at a rate three times faster than the rest of the globe. …
Workers at a Whole Foods in MA staged a walkout on July 1 to protest management’s decision to not allow employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks …
people across the country are focusing their anger on tearing down and demanding the removal of monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy …
On June 20, the city of Verkhoyansk in Siberia hit a record high temperature over 100 degrees. …
Presentations by Speak Out Now activists introducing a range of topics relating to socialism, capitalism, …
The question in front of us is whether we look to others for reforms or whether we stay mobilized and look to ourselves? …
In response to massive protests, riots, and ongoing fights against racist police brutality, companies and banks are posting public relations messages …
Ever since racist Minneapolis cops murdered George Floyd, protests have erupted in thousands of cities …
All the pent up anger, all the weeks of being stuck at home, all the worry about getting sick, all the economic hardship, all the anxiety about the future, combined with the history of systemic racism dating back to slavery led to a response that exploded into the streets. …
This year we will surpass 418 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere …
Climate disruption is just one of the ways human life is threatened due to the massive destruction to the environment …
What do the Democrats propose in response to the police murder of George Floyd? NOTHING. …
In cities around the U.S. people took to the streets to express outrage over George …
Super Cyclone Amphan devastated parts of Bangladesh and India last week. …
The Oakland teachers strike of 2019 was part of a nationwide movement to defend public education. …
Environmental activists around the world are calling for a “Green Recovery” after the coronavirus pandemic ends, to address the even larger crisis looming over us: climate change. …
Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people? …
Sanders promises his victory could solve many problems working people face. But this is a fantasy. …
Climate scientists have warned us that we are facing a planetary emergency which threatens the survival of most species on the planet. Yet the world’s most powerful governments and corporations insist on staying the same catastrophic course. …
We live in a time of extreme contradictions. On the one hand, our civilization has eliminated smallpox, brought us cell phones, robotics, and space travel, and boasts immense resources and wealth. …
The capitalist system has created an international crisis of displaced people due to a convergence of factors. …
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There are certain years that are pivotal in history, when cataclysmic changes in consciousness take place and this paradigm shift spreads contagiously. …
We are right to question the violence of our society, where mass shooting and brutality …
Russian workers led the people of Russia in an effort to build a better world, and they reached out to help the rest of the international working class to do the same …
In 1871 the workers of Paris were “ready to storm heaven.” …
We Marxists conceive of socialism, not as an arbitrary scheme of society to be constructed from a preconceived plan, but as the next stage of social evolution. …
In 1941, tens of thousands of auto workers at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, overcame many obstacles to build a union from the bottom up …
In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. …
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything …
Global Warming and Global Climate Change Is Global Warming Real? Yes it’s real. There is …
Many immigrants are nervous about immigration policies under the Trump administration. Trump has proposed cutting …
An essay written by Albert Einstein in May, 1949 …
download a .pdf of this pamphlet updated Aug. 2018 Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” …
We live in a society based on divisions. The main division, which is hardly ever …
The Minneapolis strikes of 1934 have always occupied a special place in the historical understanding of the Trotskyist movement …
For most of human history, daily issues of society were settled by people themselves, in …
The US has the largest prison population in the world. With five percent of the …
There have been five major extinction events on earth where most of the larger plant …
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