Economy

From a Bay Area Biotech Worker: The measures that businesses take need to be more than just a facade. …

As Covid-19 has spread to the pacific, so has resistance from its residents. …

With the Covid-19 crisis, almost ten million people have filed for unemployment in the course of two weeks …

The Trump administration’s criminal failure to act and to coordinate a response to the coronavirus …

The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations …

Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. …

You would think that to fight the coronavirus, the government would pull together the best minds among relevant researchers and health care providers, decide what needs to get done, get industry to make the necessary supplies …

Amazon workers in New York at the Staten Island warehouse went on strike on Monday the 30th, demanding that Amazon shut down their shipping center to get it cleaned for Covid-19. …

Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication …

European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path. …

On Monday, President Trump suggested that he’d lift the current shutdown on March 31. This is against the advice of top health officials …

On the evening of March 23, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, did an interview on Fox News and declared …

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 …

As the outbreak has hit America and the country has started to shut down, workers in many industries wonder: what now? …

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. …

How are the billionaires multiplying and making profits world-wide, and on whose backs? What’s behind this so-called “recovery”? What can we expect in the near future – is the economy rushing toward a deeper crisis? …

Peter Phillips’ latest book Giants: The Global Power Elite takes a look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are currently in control of the global economy. …

link to video of presentation Inside the 1% Transnational Ruling Class Sunday, November 11, 7PM(Doors …

A Speak Out Now Forum May, 2018 For decades the San Francisco Bay Area was …

There are certain years that are pivotal in history, when cataclysmic changes in consciousness take place and this paradigm shift spreads contagiously. …

Revolutionary University October 2017 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: Raj Patel, …

Conditions in Puerto Rico continue to deteriorate after the island was leveled when Hurricane Maria …

People are fed up with the politicians who are running this country. Recent polls show …

Revolutionary University October 2016 Richard Wolff, Marxist professor of economics, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University …

Revolutionary University, March 2016 Robert Brenner, economist and Professor of History at UCLA and an …

Last December, Ethan Couch, a white 16-year old killed four people while driving drunk. He …