Gerrymandering has drawn the attention of the mainstream media, as dozens of counties and states – many (but not all) currently led by Republican legislatures and officials – work to redraw election maps to the benefit of their party. …
On Tuesday, November 9, Oklahoma’s Supreme Court overturned its 2019 ruling that Johnson and Johnson was financially liable for its role in the opioid epidemic. …
The system creates the conditions that allow violent racist police to kill people at traffic stops. …
Veterans Day doesn’t do much for those it is supposed to honor. It is about the patriotic myths about American wars. …
30,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California and Oregon have voted to strike. …
On Tuesday, November 2nd, 10,000 John Deere workers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union rejected a second tentative agreement to continue their strike which started on October 14. …
How it is that the Supreme Court has such an important role in American life, and what effects it actually has? …
The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, starting the Great Depression. The instability of the period led to the organization of the working class. …
Why should a personal healthcare decision like having an abortion – one that is deeply personal and often complex and emotional – be judged by the Supreme Court? …
Utility debt in the U.S. has more than doubled since the pandemic. …
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 whole budget process is just another reminder that under this system democracy does work — for the ruling class. But it is a total sham for everyone else. …
Since 2018, the city of Benton Harbor, Michigan has tested high for dangerous concentrations of lead within the water system. …
The contract may be signed but the fight is far from over! …
This toxic culture of the power brokers in the NFL is a disgusting microcosm of the racism, sexism, and homophobia that is pervasive in our society! …
The past month has seen a strike wave in the United States. …
10,000 workers at John Deere went on strike against a bad contract. …
Workers at Kellogg’s are standing up to the bosses strikebreaking tactics. …
John Brown and his followers stand as an example of how working people of different skin colors and backgrounds can join together and take action against the oppressing ruling classes. For that reason, we recognize John Brown’s raid as part of the long struggle to end oppression and create a just and equal world for all people. …
Since September 16th, carpenters in Seattle have been on strike for better pay, benefits and working conditions while voting down four previous tentative agreements. …
More than one month after Hurricane Ida rampaged from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, the trail of destruction and its effects on people’s lives is still visible for all to see. …
On Sunday, one of the largest oil spills in California’s recent history spread onto beaches, damaging wetlands and killing wildlife. …
On October 2, in over 600 protests, thousands of people gathered across all 50 states in the U.S. to defend abortion access. …
According to FBI data, the US saw the largest increase during 2020 since record-keeping began in 1960. …
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. …
The exotic animal hunting industry is huge, particularly in rural parts of west Texas where expansive ranches exist for tourists to come hunt exotic animals in captivity. …
Deaths from opioid overdoses have increased in the United States as people face psychological distress from the unmitigated pandemic. …
Biden’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly discussed some of the world’s most urgent problems, but presented no actual solutions. …
Politicians in Congress are playing games with the debt ceiling, but it is the working people who will suffer the consequences. …
The problems of the for-profit healthcare system existed before COVID. COVID demonstrated just how broken the system is. …
On Wednesday President Biden announced new plans to help the global vaccination effort, saying now is not the time for “half-measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big and we need to do our part.” This is an ironic statement, considering the U.S.’s repeated lack of commitment to the measures that would be needed to end this global pandemic. …
The waves of migrants coming to the U.S. southern border is a sign that capitalism is not working for people. throughout the world. And Democratic and Republican politicians continue to carry out the same policies at the border. Both parties represent the same economic system, which benefits from racism deeply entrenched in American society and in our world, dividing working people by race and nationality while our real enemies are the bosses who exploit us all. …
The Republican-led recall election in California was a huge waste of time and money, and Californians were right to reject it – but that is not the same as an endorsement of Newsom. …
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. …
Han pasado veinte años desde los ataques del 11 de septiembre de 2001, que resultaron …
The past 20 years has meant not a U.S. war against terrorists, but an endless war of U.S. terror, carried out all over the world. …
September 9, 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. …
Environmental activist Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to 8 years in prison as a “terrorist” for sabotaging the Dakota Access pipeline. …
The western United States is experiencing extreme droughts while the capitalist system exacerbates climate change. …
On August 28, activists in San Francisco protested in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan. …
With the end of the eviction moratorium, the United States government shows that it cares more about private property rights than about people’s needs. …
Schools across the United States are reopening without coherent plans of dealing with COVID-19 infections. …
Abbott Laboratories destroyed millions of COVID tests because it was not profitable to sell them. …
El 15 de agosto, las fuerzas talibanes tomaron el poder en Kabul, la capital de …
Workers at Nabisco, the company that makes snacks like Oreos, Fig Newtons and Wheat Thins, have been on strike since August 10th. …
Biden’s “bipartisan” infrastructure plan is useless when considering the climate crisis. …
A study ranked the United States’ healthcare system poorly amongst those of 11 wealthy nations. …
Transit workers in the Bay Area are fighting for hazard pay for working during the pandemic. …
New York and Los Angeles are trying to deal with their homeless populations, sometimes by force. They are not addressing what makes people homeless in the first place. …
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