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The Inflation Crisis: a Tool of the Capitalists
American workers face the highest rate of inflation in over 30 years and is squeezing us for all that we have! …
American workers face the highest rate of inflation in over 30 years and is squeezing us for all that we have! …
Utility debt in the U.S. has more than doubled since the pandemic. …
Although the UN climate change conference hasn’t begun, we already know how much progress they’ll make. The answer? Nowhere near enough! …
The Democrats, despite controlling the Presidency and both houses of Congress, are unable to help working people in even the most basic of ways. …
Todo este proceso presupuestario no es más que otro recordatorio de que bajo este sistema la democracia sólo funciona para la clase dominante. Es una farsa total para todos los demás.
This supply chain crisis is just one more example of how dysfunctional the system of capitalism is — this system can’t even organize the basic production and distribution of goods. …
Over 700 stationary engineers have been on strike since September 18 at Kaiser Permanente Northern California facilities. …
The current budget fight in Congress is offering up a perfect opportunity for industries to call in favors and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia who owns millions in coal stocks has been tapped to re-write the climate portion of the budget bill. …
Politicians in Congress are playing games with the debt ceiling, but it is the working people who will suffer the consequences. …
The giant Chinese real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt, which could have huge shockwaves around the world. …
On September 14, the number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States reached 663,913, the equivalent of 1 in 500 Americans. …
Companies that make test kits can charge what they want and get fat off this health disaster, even if it means most people won’t have access to the care they need. …
Despite the hype or the doomsday predictions, let’s not believe that Biden is really trying to take on the rich to benefit us. …
On Labor Day, the federal unemployment benefits that have been a lifeline for tens of millions during the COVID crisis, are ending, affecting over 10 million people. …
Biden’s “bipartisan” infrastructure plan is useless when considering the climate crisis. …
Demonstrating the absurdity of capitalism, Amazon destroys millions of unsold items every week. …
Amazon’s Prime Day is the ultimate capitalist “holiday.” …
June 15th marked the day when most states in the U.S. fully reopened their economies, lifting most COVID restrictions, and easing mask mandates. But who is really celebrating? …
As unemployment benefits are running out, the media are telling us that people don’t want to work. …
If we had a better system, we wouldn’t even need taxes. …
A man’s heart attack at work made him realize there is more to life than work. …
Everything is increasing in price, but why not our pay? …
Biden’s stimulus plan will provide relief to workers, but it does not mean that Biden has the interests of the working class in mind. …
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. …
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. …
Voting with our feet is more effective than voting for Congress …
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from German] Germany is …
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] Now that …
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] In the …
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 (written in April 2020) [this article has been translated …
The revelation that Trump only paid $750 in income taxes in 2017 shouldn’t shock anyone. …
Democrats and Republicans in Congress still won’t pass another so-called stimulus bill. Even though the …
Early this month the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, published his view of the state of the world and he doesn’t think it’s pretty. …
Trump says the economy is getting better. But unemployment is still much higher than it was pre-pandemic, and industries have started to outright lay people off. Do we really think the politicians will make things better for us? …
Economist Jack Rasmus provides a clear analysis of the current economic situation and what the prospects are in the near future. …
As tens of millions find their financial situation more desperate by the day, and millions of small businesses are squeezed into failure, the big tech companies are booming! …
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
For months, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have taken turns stalling the passage of any new round of relief for unemployed workers …
Millions are left vulnerable to eviction during a time when shelter is an even more important necessity …
Online townhall: June 20, 2020 …
All the pent up anger, all the weeks of being stuck at home, all the worry about getting sick, all the economic hardship, all the anxiety about the future, combined with the history of systemic racism dating back to slavery led to a response that exploded into the streets. …
As businesses reopen, those who still have jobs must think about how much protection there will be …
In mid-May there was a big announcement regarding the development of a vaccine for COVID-19. …
Anybody in the Bay Area knows that housing is a nightmare, but COVID-19 has made it a horror …
Billionaire techies like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google have been using the COVID crisis to meet U.S. military and other federal officials …
On April 9, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York, he died as a result of COVID-19. …
22 million Americans have lost their jobs and are scrambling to figure out what to do, but the billionaires in the U.S. have increased their wealth by 10%. …
California governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for the state of California on May 14. Who are the targets of his spending cuts? Workers, high-needs students, the elderly …
36.5 million workers had filed for unemployment, but most are waiting to see the funds appear. The viral hashtag #PendingPurgatory explains what it’s been like for working people …
Almost half of workers are making more on unemployment than they do in their regular jobs …
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