Uber and Lyft drivers protest to demand more benefits during coronavirus crisis
Rideshare workers are calling for enforcement of California’s AB5 which would allow them at least three days of paid sick leave …
Rideshare workers are calling for enforcement of California’s AB5 which would allow them at least three days of paid sick leave …
As the outbreak has hit America and the country has started to shut down, workers in many industries wonder: what now? …
There has recently been an increase in violence and harassment directed at Asian people, both …
The coronavirus has turned all of our lives upside-down. While all of the major sports …
Coronavirus: inconsistencies at the top, discontent at the workplaces This post is translated from French …
On Tuesday evening, Edouard Philippe, after Castaner, Blanquer and Macron the night before, made his call for civism and “national union”. But all these representatives of power are much less comfortable when journalists relay the questions coming from the bottom of society as they still deny their own responsibility for the spread of the virus, linked to the damage done by their health policies. …
For-profit insurers are in the business to make a profit. Period. …
Now isn’t the time to blindly follow orders from bosses. To make sure our response to coronavirus is safe and just, workers need to take on-the-job action like sick-outs and strikes — as New York City educators have over the past week. …
Rain in the 2019-2020 season has been well below average in California, and the outlook …
For many years, Newark NJ has had a big problem with lead in its drinking …
International Women’s Day, March 8th, was created over a 100 years ago through the demonstrations …
This April marks the fifth anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising of 2015. Thousands took to …
On February 29, the French government used an executive order to pass a widely-hated reform …
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and richest person on the planet, recently announced in an …
Two months ago, on January 15th, the second death from a virus was reported in …
Rain in the 2019-2020 season has been well below average in California, and the outlook for the rest of 2020 is for it to be drier than average, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. …
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and richest person on the planet, recently announced in an Instagram post that he is planning on donating $10 billion to combat climate change. “Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. …
For many years, Newark NJ has had a big problem with lead in its drinking water. Lead is hazardous and most dangerous to children. It can cause brain damage and many other serious problems.
This April marks the fifth anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising of 2015. …
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation. …
Sanders promises his victory could solve many problems working people face. But this is a fantasy. …
One positive takeaway from the world’s response to the coronavirus epidemic is that it’s entirely possible to successfully combat two other existential and intertwined global crises: climate change and air pollution. …
Yaak Pabst interviews Monthly Review Press author Rob Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic …
Download entire issue as PDF (11×17) Bezos on Climate Change – Covering Up the Truth …
The coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread to over one hundred countries, infecting more than 110,000 people …
Since February 20th, McClymonds High School in West Oakland has been shut down because Trichloroethylene, …
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a visit from Trump on February 24 while violent …
this post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Just ten minutes! This is how long …
Since 2013, the Levin Shipyard in Richmond, CA has been shipping coal, mined in Utah, …
The comedian John Oliver on his show Last Week Tonight recently did a feature about …
Recently the Walt Disney Company went after a Berkeley elementary school for showing The Lion …
Graduate students at U.C. Santa Cruz (UCSC) are on strike from teaching for the second …
A little more than a month after the Trump administration unveiled a so-called peace plan …
The Algerians say that it is not simply a question of changing one president for another, it is the regime itself that needs to be changed. …
Many people are looking at the primary election on March 3, Super Tuesday, as a …
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. …
Massive protests by indigenous Canadians and their allies have shut down many of the main …
Jury negotiations began for Harvey Weinstein’s multiple allegations of rape on Tuesday, February 18th. Though …
Five Oakland women took over a vacant house in November so they and their children …
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. …
Elizabeth Warren’s campaign messaging proclaims that she will take climate change seriously. Her campaign website …
As global warming accelerates, tens of millions of people are displaced all over the world …
A feeling of excitement was in the air for some of us in the Bay …
The majority of RATP’s railway workers had to end the indefinite strike that began on …
“If we had really blockaded for 45 days, then Paris would be a mess in …
The fires raging in Australia since December are the most recent face of the climate …
On January 20 working people around the country will celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. …
After 38 days of strike action, Édouard Philippe dropped a bone to the so-called “reformist” …
The U.S. drone strike on January 3 that assassinated Iran’s top military general, Qassim Suleimani, …
Translated by Speak Out Now: www.speakoutsocialists.org Translated from Convergences Révolutionnaires – Special Issue; December 2019; …
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