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Articles

Thankful For What?

November 21, 2023

Many happenings around the world are not things to be thankful for. …

Articles

Fed Up With Politics? Whose Politics?

November 17, 2023

Recent reports in the New York Times are verifying what most of us already knew: …

Articles

Fossil Fuel Production Increases as Earth Burns

November 17, 2023

A new study by the Copernicus Climate Change Service calculates that 2023 will go down …

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NJ Nursing Home Shutdown: Profits vs. the Elderly

October 19, 2023

On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, Princeton Care Center, a for-profit nursing home in …

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A Government Shutdown Would Hurt Workers and Poor the Most

October 15, 2023

The immediate threat of a U.S. government shutdown that emerged in late September has been …

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Plutocrat’s rant is a warning

October 8, 2023

“We need to see pain in the economy,” said Australian multimillionaire Tim Gurner at a …

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Don’t Blame Natural Disasters — Capitalism is Responsible!

September 17, 2023

The speed and severity of the disruption of the Earth’s ecosystems and the overall climate …

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We Are Facing an Environmental Catastrophe

September 17, 2023

A pink sun looming through the thick, burnt orange sky was a sight seen in …

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Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters

September 16, 2023

We are only two-thirds through the calendar year, and 2023 has already broken the record …

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Bernie Sanders Says, “Tax the Rich!” Yes, But How Much?

September 8, 2023

Bernie Sanders wants the rich to pay more taxes, aiming to support the working class …

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Deadly Johannesburg Fire Was a Predictable Tragedy

September 7, 2023

On August 31, a fast-moving blaze spread through a formerly abandoned five-story building in downtown …

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The Cobalt Mine That Never Was

August 10, 2023

The so-called capitalist transition to green energy has a problem: it isn’t profitable to produce cobalt, a …

Articles

In Macron’s World, even Vacations Suck!

August 2, 2023

July 24, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle Fraction of the New …

Articles

France: As the old Revolutionary Song Says, “Hang the Aristocrats from on High!”

July 18, 2023

As France celebrates Bastille Day, there is reason to revolt: the rich are still getting richer at the expense of everyone else! …

Articles

The Homestead Strike of 1892: The State Shows Whose Side It’s On

June 25, 2023

On June 25, 1892, the management of the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, posted …

Articles

France: Huge Turn Out Again on May 1st: We Won’t Give Up the Fight!

May 2, 2023

On May 1, French workers continued their fight against Macron’s pension reform. …

Articles

SpaceX Threatens Human Communities and Wildlife

May 1, 2023

SpaceX’s Starship launch threw debris into local communities and wildlife habitats. …

Artículos en Español

Su sistema está destruyendo nuestro mundo

April 21, 2023

Desde 1970, el Día de la Tierra ha sido el día en que millones de …

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France: Our Motion for Censure is the General Strike!

March 20, 2023

After President Macron tried to force through pension reform, the French are striking against it. …

Articles

Floods in California: Not a “Natural” Catastrophe

March 20, 2023

The town of Pajaro, California, was flooded after its under-engineered levee broke. …

Articles

The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: Exposing the Fragility of Capitalism

March 19, 2023

Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a small bank focused on investing in tech companies, …

Articles

Profits over Lives in Head-On Train Crash in Greece

March 6, 2023

The disastrous train crash in Greece is another example of how capitalism risks our lives. …

Articles

Child Labor a Normal Part of Capitalism

February 28, 2023

Immigrant children have been found to be working in dangerous conditions. Such exploitation is a normal part of capitalism. …

Articles

Railroad Profiteers and Government Responsible for Toxic Wreck

February 15, 2023

The train derailment and release of toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, was the result of corporate cost-cutting at the expense of safety, enabled by the government. …

Articles

The Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria – Disasters in an Inhuman System

February 14, 2023

The consequences of the earthquakes affecting Turkey and Syria were made more severe by the system of profiteering and war. …

Articles

Rich Get Richer During Crisis

January 20, 2023

According to a report published by Oxfam on January 16, the richest people have gotten …

Baltimore Events

Online Town Hall: Sat. Jan. 21 at 4pm PST (7pm EST)

2023: A Coming Economic Crisis? Who Will Pay? With Richard Wolff We face the effects …

Articles

Insulin Is Now Free?

November 22, 2022

A parody Twitter account of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly drew attention to the exorbitant price of insulin. …

Articles

Tech Layoffs Aren’t Unique – They’re a Normal Part of Capitalism

November 19, 2022

Many tech enthusiasts, tech cheerleaders and even many so-called analysts treat the giant tech and …

Articles

Greta Thunberg Denounces Latest Global Climate Conference

November 18, 2022

During her book launch just one week before the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference …

Articles

Railroad Bosses Threaten Workers on the Job and in Our Communities

November 18, 2022

The possibility that workers might strike against national freight rail companies has gotten some headlines …

Articles

Empty Homes Yet Unhoused People – Another Sickness of the System

November 4, 2022

A recent report provides us with yet another example of the inhumanity of the capitalist …

Articles

UPS Worker Gets Pushed to the Edge

November 3, 2022

On October 5, a UPS worker took her life on the job at a major …

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Insurance Companies Defraud the Public: Milking Medicare for Billions

November 3, 2022

Private insurers that offer a “Medicare Advantage” plan have milked Medicare’s public coffers fraudulently for …

Articles

We Can’t Recycle Our Way Out of the Plastic Problem

November 1, 2022

It turns out that most plastic is not actually recyclable. If we want to get rid of it, we also need to end the profit motive that causes plastic production. …

Articles

Haitians Rise Up Amidst Social Crisis in the Country

October 29, 2022

For several weeks, there have been renewed demonstrations and revolts by the Haitian population in …

Articles

Book Review: Racism and Capitalism: What it Costs us ALL – The Sum of Us, by Heather McGee

October 10, 2022

The Sum of Us by Heather McGee is an interesting, but frustrating, book on racism in the United States. …

Articles

British Workers Resist Skyrocketing Living Costs as Corporations Make Record Profits

October 8, 2022

In the United Kingdom (U.K.), more than 50,000 rail workers represented by three unions recently …

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Florida – Tragic Example of the Sickness of Capitalism

October 8, 2022

The tragic aftermath of Hurricane Ian has left a trail of death and destruction through …

Articles

Capitalists Accelerate Oil Consumption and the End of the World

October 7, 2022

The need to limit CO2 emissions becomes more urgent every year, as we see more …

Articles

Federal Reserve Chair: Ordinary People Will Need to Suffer to Combat Inflation

September 17, 2022

Each year, there is a tradition within the United States’ capitalist system where dozens of …

Articles

Kings and Queens Belong in the Dustbin of History

September 14, 2022

Let’s not mourn for monarchs, who have historically been exploiters and colonizers, and wealthy parasites at best. …

Editorials

Climate Disruption? It’s Time for Us to Disrupt

September 11, 2022

The capitalist system is unable to take meaningful action against climate disruption. …

Articles

Military Contractors Profit Off the War in Ukraine at Our Expense

September 9, 2022

In August, the U.S. government decided to send another three billion dollars in military aid …

Articles

Capitalism + Racism + Climate Crisis = Water Disaster in Jackson, Mississippi

September 5, 2022

The climate crisis is combining with institutional inequality to create more suffering for oppressed people. …

International

France: Back to work: time to fight back

September 4, 2022

August 31, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, …

Articles

The “White Voice” of the Film Sorry to Bother You — But for Real

September 3, 2022

Many people may remember the plot of the 2018 film Sorry to Bother You from …

Articles

Pakistan Flood Disaster – Who is to Blame?

August 31, 2022

The disastrous flooding in Pakistan is the fault of wealthy countries that have emitted and continue to emit large amounts of greenhouse gases. …

Environment

Fires, Arsonists, and Us

August 26, 2022

August 16, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New …

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Nursing Homes Prey on Relatives of Deceased

August 22, 2022

Predatory nursing homes sued family and friends of deceased patients to collect bill payments. …

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