Living with Climate Change in Farmworker Communities
Photoessay by David BaconOriginally published by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, August 3, 2021 Reprinted with permission …
Photoessay by David BaconOriginally published by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, August 3, 2021 Reprinted with permission …
An analysis of the situation in Cuba. …
New York and Los Angeles are trying to deal with their homeless populations, sometimes by force. They are not addressing what makes people homeless in the first place. …
As global heating continues, wildfires of unprecedented scope and devastation are blazing in many countries. …
Just days after the federal moratorium on evictions expired, the Biden Administration extended the ban through October 3rd. …
Billionaires like Bezos show us where their concern is – not on this planet with us. …
On July 20, 2001, 20 years ago today, a group of unions filed a lawsuit …
U.S. troops may be leaving Afghanistan, but U.S. aggression around the world remains. …
On July 14 we celebrate the birthday of Woody Guthrie, the Oklahoma born singer-songwriter famous for writing and performing This Land is Your Land. …
Despite Biden’s talk of ending private prisons, his administration continues to fund private detention centers. …
Miners from the Warrior Met Coal Company in Alabama have been on strike since April 1. …
A leaked training document from the U.S. Navy grouped socialists with neo-Nazis as terrorists. …
Activists fought against a pipeline project in Tennessee and won: the Byhalia Connection Pipeline has been cancelled. …
The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson recently announced that it reached a $230 million settlement with New York State after being sued for its role in creating the opioid crisis. But what is justice in this system? …
While Macron attacks retirees’ pensions, he aids the capitalist class. …
During the “ceasefire,” Israel has continued to demolish Palestinian homes. …
The Delta variant of COVID-19 arose due to a lack of global policy to fight COVID-19. …
Climate activists protested against Biden’s ineffective climate proposal. …
Eighty-six years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. …
On the Fourth of July, the politicians and the corporate media will celebrate their version …
On June 23 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to give the farm owners the right to bar union organizers from their lands. This is nothing new, the courts have a history of cutting away at workers’ rights when they think the workers are too weak to fight back. …
The government is hesitating because it is caught between two fires – the need to show its electorate and the bosses that it is taking back the initiative, and the fear of reigniting a dynamite stick – social struggles. The abstention disrupted their well-oiled electoral system. But it will soon be forgotten. …
Nurses at a hospital in Massachusetts are protesting unsafe practices in the longest strike in state history. …
Years before the collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida, engineers had identified deterioration and recommended repairs – which were never made. …
The Democrats failed to pass a voting reform bill – but even if they did, it wouldn’t have addressed big money choosing the candidates. …
Demonstrating the absurdity of capitalism, Amazon destroys millions of unsold items every week. …
Amazon’s Prime Day is the ultimate capitalist “holiday.” …
We live in the wealthiest country in the World. But who controls it? It is …
On June 27, 1954, the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company …
Voters in France show who they support in the regional elections: none of the above! …
On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support …
Recently, political leaders of the wealthiest “Group of 7 Nations” (G7) met to discuss what they saw as the most pressing issues that they were facing, including beating war drums against China. …
June 15th marked the day when most states in the U.S. fully reopened their economies, lifting most COVID restrictions, and easing mask mandates. But who is really celebrating? …
Pride is much more than a festival. Most importantly, it’s a time to commemorate the …
A record-setting heat wave hit the Western United States last week in California, Nevada, Utah, …
Antes de la pandemia ya estábamos enfrentando una crisis de vivienda. Un número récord de …
Our fraternal organization in France urged a vote for Lutte Ouvriere in the June 20 election. …
For-Profit Healthcare Healthcare has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Hospital administrators, not healthcare workers, make decisions …
Young people today face a world of crises. It’s clear that this society does not …
On June 13th Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister, was unseated by Naftali Bennett, a politician even farther to the right than Netanyahu. …
Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, accumulate little no wealth and pay taxes. But the big capitalists live in a different world. As their wealth expands, their effective tax rates decline. …
MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving away $2.7 billion. But who generated that wealth? Why should it be up to rich people like her to decide what happens with that wealth? …
We are thrilled to reprint the speech of Paxton Smith, the Valedictorian speaker who went off script at her Texas high school graduation. …
Today we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery …
Even before the pandemic, we were already facing a housing crisis. Record numbers of people …
Race defines much of our lives. It says who we are to a cop, a …
We are facing a crisis like never before. The current organization of production, especially the …
La Crisis de la Educación Los problemas de la educación no pueden resolverse en una …
¿Quién es responsable de esta crisis? Desde hace más de un año estamos enfrentando varias …
After a person attacked a police officer with a knife in France, the French politicians are proposing remedies that don’t address the root cause of such violence. …
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