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Lying About a Pandemic – a U.S. Government Tradition
The Trump administration is not the first U.S. government to lie about an epidemic. …
Brazil – The Most Inefficient President in the World Risks Workers’ Lives
Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need. …
[VIDEO] Capitalism is the Problem
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 …
Homeless in the Time of Covid-19
To lower the number of Covid-19 cases, people are encouraged to stay inside their house. But what do you do when you don’t even have a house to stay in? …
Covid-19: A Capitalist Pandemic
The Trump administration’s criminal failure to act and to coordinate a response to the coronavirus pandemic has created a healthcare disaster. Early on, when information was coming from China, Trump said that the virus was not a threat and it …
Pandemic Stimulus: The Priorities of Their System Laid Bare
The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations …
Education Under Covid-19 – Exposing a World of Inequalities
As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes …
Die first, demand later?
Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it. …
Trapped in a Pandemic: When Jail Without Bail is a Death Sentence
Regardless of their offense, many people now in prison are sentenced to death by Covid-19. …
Undocumented Immigrants: The Virus Doesn’t Discriminate, but the U.S. Government Does
The virus doesn’t discriminate based on where you were born. But the U.S. government does. …
Our outrage!
“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …
Videos From Online Townhall: The Coronavirus Pandemic – Their System Can’t Protect Us
Presentations from Online Townhall • The Coronavirus Pandemic: Their System Can’t Protect Us • March 28, 2020 …
The G20 Summit’s Coronavirus Response – Hypocrisy!
As wealthy countries rush to protect capital, people around the world continue to suffer. …
Who is Essential?
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the inherent shortcomings of the capitalist economic system. The recent labeling of “essential employees” during quarantine highlights the indispensability of certain jobs …
Is the Cure Worse Than the Virus?
On Monday, President Trump suggested that he’d lift the current shutdown on March 31. This is against the advice of top health officials …
Profit Before People: Coronavirus Edition
On the evening of March 23, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, did an interview on Fox News and declared …
The New Federal Reserve as Garbage Can for All Capitalist Debt
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will provide unlimited credit–and assume the bad debts, not just of banks, but for what it called ‘Main St.’ But by ‘Main St.’ it doesn’t mean consumers or households …
Online Townhall: Sat. March 28 4pm (PDT) 7pm (EDT)
The Coronavirus Pandemic Their System Can’t Protect Us The coronavirus (COVID-19) has already led to a global catastrophe with 353,692 infected and 15,430 dead (3/23/2020), with the rest of the world’s population still threatened with infection. The response of most …
Target and Walmart aren’t protecting staff amid pandemic, workers say
Employees say they are anxious about working in crowded stores with inadequate sanitation and lack of paid time off …
The coronavirus outbreak is exposing the devastating gaps between the rich and poor at a moment when America is primed for class warfare
The divisions between the rich and poor are infuriatingly clear in 2020 …
Covid-19: A Best-Case Scenario
Now is the time to imagine a better world. …
‘Suddenly I have no paycheck’: layoffs and cuts for workers rocked by coronavirus
As the outbreak has hit America and the country has started to shut down, workers in many industries wonder: what now? …
[VIDEO] Bezos on Climate Change – Covering Up the Truth
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. …
Coronavirus is a Historic Trigger Event — and it Needs a Movement to Respond
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation. …
The Sanders Phenomenon: Its Origins and Prospects
Sanders promises his victory could solve many problems working people face. But this is a fantasy. …
Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year”
As coronavirus spreads rapidly around the world, outpacing our capacity for testing let alone treatment, the long-anticipated monster is finally at the door. …
The Coronavirus Pandemic Proves That We Can Overcome the Climate Crisis—If We Want To
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. …
“Capitalism is a disease hotspot”
Yaak Pabst interviews Monthly Review Press author Rob Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic …
Algeria: One year later, Hirak is still here!
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. …
The U.S. Border Crisis: A Crisis of the Capitalist System
download .pdf The capitalist system has created an international crisis of displaced people due to a convergence of factors. The global economic crisis is now coupled with accelerating ecological disasters and intensified military conflicts. In 2018 there were an estimated …
The Challenges We Face Today: Short-Term Mobilizing or Organizing for Real Social Change
Revolutionary University, October 2018 We can go beyond resistance to the forces of capitalism that have created a world of war, poverty, racism, sexism, exploitation and environmental destruction. It is possible for us to live in a world where …
France: “All Together! General strike!” (Revolutionary University, Fall 2018)
Revolutionary University October 2018 France: “All Together! General strike!” This was was one of the slogans last spring. The mobilizations against the French government’s attacks proved that the working class is still able to fight back against the capitalists’ offensive. …
Kamran Nayeri: The Crisis of Civilization and How to Resolve It
Revolutionary University October 2018 An Introduction to Ecocentric Socialism The world is in the midst of profound social and planetary crises, which threaten humanity and much of life on Earth: Catastrophic climate change, the Sixth Extinction, and nuclear holocaust. Why …
The Middle East in the Era of Trump – Prof. As’ad AbuKhalil
Revolutionary University October 2018 The Middle East in the Era of Trump The Middle East is in turmoil – the Syrian War rages, Israel continues its murder of Palestinians, Egypt’s military regime has tightened its grip and Saudi Arabia is …
Peter Phillips: Giants – The Global Power Elite (November 11)
Inside the 1% Transnational Ruling Class Sunday, November 11, 7PM (Doors open at 6:30PM) South Berkeley Senior Center 2939 Ellis St., Berkeley Eight men have as much wealth as half of the world’s population (more that 3.5 billion people). …
Capitalism is the Problem
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. On the other hand, we face the worst crises …
Updates from Germany and France (Revolutionary University 2017)
Revolutionary University October 2017 France: In The Streets, Workplaces, Universities, Schools & Hospitals… Everybody Hates Macron Michelle Verdier, an activist in the French Trotskyist group Fraction L’Etincelle The Myth Of The Social Democratic State and The Reality of Life in …
The Fourth of July – Whose Revolution?
Fourth of July is this week and we are hearing all the calls to be patriotic. But what does it mean to be patriotic when every politician is either attacking us or useless to defend our interests? What does it …
May 20, 2017: To Save Our Planet… Change the System! (Baltimore, MD)
The world’s environment was in a dangerous state even before the election of Donald Trump. The world’s scientific community repeatedly pointed to the coming ecological catastrophe if carbon emissions were not drastically reduced, slowing the warming of the earth’s atmosphere. …
The Assault on Science is Not New – Carol Dansereau
by Carol Dansereau Originally published April 20, 2017 at Counterpunch.org We should all “March For Science” this Earth Day. But let’s get one thing straight. The assault on science is nothing new. It’s been going on under Democrats and Republicans …
Carol Dansereau: A Socialist Perspective on the Environment
Revolutionary University October 2016 Why are we losing our fight for the Earth? And what will it take to win? To answer these urgent questions, we must understand what’s blocking our way forward: an economic system based on exploitation of …
Joel Beinin: Workers and the Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Revolutionary University October 2016 Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and author of the recent book “Workers and Thieves” will discuss the struggles of the working classes and unemployed in Egypt and …
Robin Kelley: Revisiting Black Marxism in the Wake of Black Lives Matter
Revolutionary University October 2016 Robin D. G. Kelley, is Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and current Chair of the Department of African American Studies and a prolific …
Our Role In Transforming The World (audio)
Revolutionary University October 2016 Activists in Speak Out Now present a revolutionary socialist perspective on the challenges and choices we all confront today.
Harriet Fraad: How Capitalism Shreds Our Personal Lives
Revolutionary University October 2016 Harriet Fraad is a licensed mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been an activist in the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism. For 40 years, she has …
Richard D. Wolff: Crisis – It’s How Capitalism Works
Revolutionary University October 2016 Richard Wolff, Marxist professor of economics, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University, New York City. …
The Future is Socialism
The functioning of capitalism, its ceaseless quest for ever-greater profit, the engine of the entire global economy, is at the center of every major problem human society faces today: from wars and violence and ecological decay to economic crises and …
The Environmental Crisis – The Problem is Capitalism
download illustrated PDF of this pamphlet Contents Fighting For Our Planet – Fighting For A Future (April, 2014) Destruction of the Environment – A Ticking Time Bomb (April, 2014) Fracking – Another Sign of an Insane System (April, 2014) Keystone …
Prof. As’ad AbuKhalil: Syria and the Conflict in the Middle East
Revolutionary University, March 2016 Prof. As’ad AbuKhalil, Professor of Political Science at CSU Stanislaus and author of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. (angryarab.blogspot.com)
