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Economy

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Trump’s Tariffs Are An Attack on Workers

May 4, 2025

On April 2nd, Trump announced a range of new tariffs on goods imported into the …

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More Pain From Budget Cuts Will Hit Soon

May 4, 2025

As Trump has issued executive order after executive order and his billionaire bureaucrats have cut …

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Trump’s Cancellation of Union Contracts: An Assault on All Workers

April 26, 2025

On March 27, President Trump declared that a million federal workers would lose their collective …

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Tariffs And Trade Wars: Another Price For The Working Class To Pay

March 13, 2025

The Trump administration has been threatening and implementing tariffs and trade wars with Mexico, Canada, …

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Trump And Musk Make It Easier To Rip Us Off

March 5, 2025

In the recent slashing and burning of various government workers and agencies during the early …

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Consumers and Producers

February 25, 2025

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now newsletter for BART (Bay Area Rapid …

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Energy Companies Profit, and We Pay the Price!

January 16, 2025

BGE (Baltimore Gas and Electric Company) is increasing their prices for gas and electricity again, …

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Unhoused Population Reaches New High

January 10, 2025

The latest data on homelessness from the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that …

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Bankrupt or Not, Working People in Oakland will Bear the Brunt

December 23, 2024

On November 15, Oaklandside, a local Oakland news outlet, published an article on the city …

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The Other Big Lies – Are Immigrants to Blame for Problems We Face?

November 14, 2024

Beginning in 2016, Donald Trump and the Republicans started attacking immigrants. Trump has said such …

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Budget 2025: it’s up to us to make the rich pay

October 14, 2024

The French government has passed its 2025 budget, cutting public services and increasing military spending. …

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The East Coast and Gulf Ports Longshore Contract Expires September 30: Will the Union Settle or Strike? 

August 18, 2024

Negotiations for new contracts covering 45,000 longshoremen, working at 11 ports on the Atlantic seaboard …

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PG&E Increases Profits After Rate Hikes

July 30, 2024

PG&E’s profits predictably increased after they raised utility rates. …

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California’s Gavin Newsom Declares War On Poor People

July 30, 2024

On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom passed an executive order that would call on state …

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Behind the Prime Deals: Amazon Workers Suffer Record Injury Rates

July 29, 2024

Amazon’s Prime Day has become notorious not just for its deals, but for the massive …

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Boeing Machinists Authorize Strike

July 29, 2024

Boeing’s unionized machinists held strike authorization votes on July 17th. As many as 30,000 of …

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Bangladesh: Students Mobilize Against Quotas for Government Jobs

July 26, 2024

Since the beginning of July, demonstrations and blockades have been taking place in several cities …

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Economic Crises Drive Political Crises

July 24, 2024

Political and economic crises are often linked, not separate events. …

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The Supreme Court Says Homelessness is a Crime

July 4, 2024

The Supreme Court has ruled that local governments can punish people for being homeless. …

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Baltimore Bridge: May Update

May 28, 2024

Two months after the collision with the Key Bridge, the container ship Dali has been moved out of the way. …

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Drowning in Childcare Costs

May 22, 2024

Childcare has become unaffordable. …

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General Strike in Argentina

May 22, 2024

On May 9, Argentinian workers conducted a general strike against the policies of President Milei. …

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Eviction Crisis in Rural U.S.

March 22, 2024

Since moratoriums on evictions were lifted following the first two years of the Covid-19 emergency, …

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Biden’s Budget: It Does Nothing for Workers, and It Won’t Inconvenience the 1%

March 17, 2024

When President Biden sent his proposed Tax and Budget proposal to Congress on March 11th, …

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Bosses have a new tactic to stop workers from forming unions

March 8, 2024

Workers at big non-union corporations like Tesla and Amazon have been trying to organize unions …

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Mergers: Another Attack on our Wallets

March 6, 2024

The largest grocery store merger in history is taking place between Albertsons and Kroger. These …

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Profits for the Rich, Inflation for the Poor

March 5, 2024

As oil and gas companies make record profits, gas prices continue to rise. From 2021 …

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Farmers of India March for Economic Survival

February 24, 2024

Farmers in India have marched to the capital, New Delhi, to urge the government to …

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Machu Picchu is Not For Sale!

February 13, 2024

The people of Cusco, Peru are rising up against the privatization of Machu Picchu. …

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Let Them Sit In The Dark

February 13, 2024

PG&E is increasing rates to pay for infrastructure upgrades they should have done a long time ago. …

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The Bosses Expect the Next Ten Years to be “Turbulent”

January 30, 2024

Capitalists at the World Economic Forum predict worsening economic conditions over the next decade. If they have trouble keeping profits up, we, the working class, are the ones who they will punish. …

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Climate Crisis In Panama Threatens To Choke The Global Poor

January 18, 2024

The Panama Canal, which has historically connected commerce from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is …

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In The Face of Global Crisis, What Did Biden and China’s President Xi Accomplish?

November 22, 2023

Biden and Xi met at APEC, but their meeting was more for optics than action. …

Articles

Thankful For What?

November 21, 2023

Many happenings around the world are not things to be thankful for. …

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336,000 New Jobs in September? Unemployment rate 3.4%? The Dismal Truth behind the Happy Headlines

October 19, 2023

The September jobs report from the U.S. government said that 336,000 new jobs were created …

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A Government Shutdown Would Hurt Workers and Poor the Most

October 15, 2023

The immediate threat of a U.S. government shutdown that emerged in late September has been …

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A World of Forced Migration Caused by the Capitalist System

October 5, 2023

Today, according to the United Nations, there are 110 million people in the world displaced …

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An Economic Recovery … Of Profits

September 11, 2023

It seems like every day we are told how great the Biden administration has been …

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War over Ukraine Starves People around the World

July 27, 2023

Earlier this month, Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal. This agreement was …

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Raising Minimum Wage Lowers Unemployment

June 29, 2023

A new study from UC Berkeley economists dismantles the lie often told by the bosses …

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Hedge Funds Profit Off High Food Prices and Human Misery

April 21, 2023

Following “momentum driven” algorithms that automatically determine when to buy or sell commodities at the …

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The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: Exposing the Fragility of Capitalism

March 19, 2023

Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a small bank focused on investing in tech companies, …

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