Publications

If we can fly a helicopter on Mars, why can’t we clean up our own planet? …

A recent outbreak of COVID-19 in a nursing home shows the necessity of vaccinations for all people. …

Racist attacks on voting rights need to be opposed. …

India is facing horrific numbers of COVID-19 infections with no signs of slowing. …

Many state legislatures have been passing laws targeting LGBTQ people, especially transgender people. …

The day before George Floyd’s murderer was convicted, the police murdered Mario Gonzalez. …

Alameda County has been indicted for violating the rights of mental health patients. …

The NBA is scheduling more games in fewer days, leading to players not having enough rest between games and increasing injury rates. …

As Taiwan experiences a severe drought, its government is rationing water for residents and farmers, but its large semiconductor manufacturing company is relatively unaffected. …

The extremely rich are using their wealth to move trees to their homes. …

Demonstrations in Oakland Today! Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States. In …

Debate about whether police were justified in killing Ma’Khia Bryant doesn’t address the question of the role of police and the purpose of their violence. …

India is being overwhelmed by COVID-19, its capitalist system being unable to handle such an event. …

Biden announced a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. This does not change the substance of U.S. foreign policy. …

The conviction of Chauvin does not change the oppressive role of the police. We still need a social order that is not based on inequality. …

France has lockdowns for the poor, while the rich are having secret luxury meals. …

Andreas Malm’s recent book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency lays out the overlapping causes of both …

On Earth Day, remember that the environmental crisis facing our planet is ultimately caused by capitalism. …

The Biden administration approved a $23 billion weapons sale to the UAE, despite Biden claiming to want to end the war in Yemen. …

Japan plans to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. …

Worldwide vaccine distribution is extremely unequal, with many poor countries having to wait years for theirs. …

Regardless of the result of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the racist capitalist system will continue until it is overthrown. …

The NCAA’s exploitation of athletes and its sexist funding disparity are a reflection of the capitalist system. …

Effects of climate change are already visible, yet no serious efforts to mitigate it are being made under the capitalist system. …

The Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere are engaged in a thinly-disguised attempt to prevent Black people from voting. Although voting is insufficient to solve our problems, we must oppose this racist attack on our civil rights. …

Ten years after Egyptians overthrew Mubarak, they are living under the repression of al-Sisi. Mass mobilization against this regime is possible. …

Emergent BioSolutions botched millions of vaccine doses. They are focused more on profit than producing good vaccines. …

Yet another Black man has been unjustly killed by the cops. …

The truth came out that policies under the Trump administration increased the number of COVID deaths. But even under the Biden administration, with loosening restrictions, we risk more virus transmission. …

Inmates in a St. Louis jail protested against their detention, because the city has been keeping them locked up without a trial. …

Biden’s American Jobs Plan does not address the root causes of infrastructure decay or climate change. …

The Piney Point disaster was completely preventable, if the system didn’t prioritize profit over all else. …

France is entering its third lockdown. The working class will be hurt the most by the government’s policies. …

The Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama lost their unionization drive. This defeat must be viewed in the proper context in order to gain the understanding necessary for victory in the future. …

In 2020, the most profitable U.S. corporations once again paid no taxes, thanks to loopholes in the system. …

On April 8, 1952, President Truman ordered the nationalization of the steel mills in an attempt to prevent the workers from striking. …

The government’s ineffective enforcement of workplace safety standards during the pandemic is due to the fundamental pressures of the capitalist system. …

The Democrats are part of the system that created the United States’ cruel border policies. It is not surprising to see them continue the practices of the Trump administration. …

The struggles against capitalism and racism are linked, and Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this. …

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen. …

The murder rate increased in 2020, a symptom of a sickness in our society. …

The French government’s illogical response to the pandemic is based more on preserving business profits than the well-being of the people. …

The treatment of refugees is a problem of the capitalist system that destroys people’s lives. …

The gun law debate misses the point: the system creates the conditions that drive people to commit atrocities. …

Governor DeSantis deserves blame for the spring break fiasco, but so does the system of capitalism. …

Workers in Myanmar are discovering their power in a strike. …

Corporations and rich nations are hoarding life-saving vaccine technology instead of sharing it, because even during a pandemic they only care about profits. …

The shooting in Atlanta is part of a long history of anti-Asian racism in the United States. …