Publications

The NFL is taking COVID-19 precautions for the Super Bowl. Why don’t we have equivalent precautions for schools? …

Black people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. This is part of a pattern of inequality. …

The working class isn’t getting low interest rate loans, but the capitalists are. …

Good news: the California Department of Public Health is no longer accepting requests to waive nurse-to-patient ratios. …

Democrats criticize Republicans for taking “Dark Money,” but they are guilty of it themselves. …

Newsom decided to lift the stay at home order, but provided no scientific justification for doing so. …

Biden might talk about the climate, but his administration has been approving oil and gas drilling. …

After the arrest of Alexei Navalny, Russians have been protesting against Putin’s rule. …

Millions of vaccine doses have gone missing. Why can’t the capitalist system get this right? …

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, and died on …

Biden’s proposed $15 minimum wage may be an improvement, but it does not at all address the fundamental inequalities resulting from capitalism. …

Indian farmers have been protesting for two months against “reforms” that would only further enrich the rich. …

Ten years ago, the people of Egypt started a movement that forced their dictator out. …

Capitalism is in a state of emergency, bringing all of humanity to the precipice. There is still a window of opportunity for the revolutionary power of the proletariat to intervene and carve out a path towards socialism. But that window is closing, and time is not on our side. …

The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …

Ten years after the Arab Spring, Tunisians are protesting again. …

Hank Aaron was a great baseball player and a brave campaigner against racism. …

Now that a couple of vaccines have been approved for emergency use authorization by the …

Nearly 1,400 workers at the Hunt’s Point Produce Market in the Bronx, New York City …

On January 20, it was hard not to feel anxious. Would Trump really leave? Would …

In Los Angeles County, as healthcare providers lose the battle against COVID-19, environmental regulators have …

Michigan prosecutors have charged former governor Rick Snyder with crimes relating to the Flint water crisis. …

The inequality of the Israeli vaccination program is part of a long history of the mistreatment of Palestinians. …

In a reaction to the Capitol attack, some are calling for a new domestic terrorism law. Would this just give the government more oppressive power? …

One Night in Miami raises important questions about individuals and social movements. …

A new Netflix documentary shows how the government orchestrated the crack epidemic that devastated black communities. …

The Georgia senate runoff election was the most expensive senate election in U.S. history. Does all that money spent benefit the average person? …

The removal of right-wing figures from social media might seem like a necessary response to the attack on the Capitol, but the companies’ ability to do so could also be used against leftists. …

Why are businesses only cutting ties with Trump now, instead of any time in the last four years? …

Martin Luther King Jr., known for his activism against racial segregation, was also a critic of capitalism. …

The attack on the capitol was an ugly attempt by Trump to stay in power, but it was not a coup. The United States would know what a coup is, having orchestrated many of them. …

The United States may present the illusion of democracy, but its election system is set up to favor the rich. There was no real democracy to be stolen. …

Google fired an AI researcher for refusing to censor her own research, which was critical of the type of AI work Google does. What is Google afraid of? …

In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, it might be easy to forget about other …

A vaccine seems like the best solution available to slow down and limit the COVID …

California’s response to the pandemic is to increase the patient load for nurses, instead of hiring more nurses. …

Healthcare disparities in a racist society continue to harm marginalized groups. …

The activists of Argentina show how to fight for abortion rights. …

As usual for cops, Tamir Rice’s killers were not charged with a crime. …

On January 6th, as Congress was supposed to certify the electoral college votes for president, …

On January 6, while Congress was reviewing the November election results, Trump held a rally …

For hours, politicians and news pundits expressed their shock and surprise after Trump supporters pushed …

This new year, let’s resolve to fight for a better society …

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. …

COVID-19 has caused a large temporary decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. What will it take to permanently reduce emissions? …

The protests in Belarus against Lukashenko continue. …

Democrats may claim to care about social justice, but when they have the opportunity to take action on issues such as ending contracts with ICE, their true priorities are revealed. …