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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. …

Throughout this pandemic, politicians at all levels, and in both parties, have exposed the priorities of the system they protect. They are not interested in protecting the health of the population. All they are concerned about is protecting this economy and their petty careers. …

Just days after the federal moratorium on evictions expired, the Biden Administration extended the ban through October 3rd. …

On July 20, 2001, 20 years ago today, a group of unions filed a lawsuit …

U.S. troops may be leaving Afghanistan, but U.S. aggression around the world remains. …

Despite Biden’s talk of ending private prisons, his administration continues to fund private detention centers. …

Miners from the Warrior Met Coal Company in Alabama have been on strike since April 1. …

A leaked training document from the U.S. Navy grouped socialists with neo-Nazis as terrorists. …

Activists fought against a pipeline project in Tennessee and won: the Byhalia Connection Pipeline has been cancelled. …

Climate activists protested against Biden’s ineffective climate proposal. …

Eighty-six years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. …

Nurses at a hospital in Massachusetts are protesting unsafe practices in the longest strike in state history. …

Years before the collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida, engineers had identified deterioration and recommended repairs – which were never made. …

The Democrats failed to pass a voting reform bill – but even if they did, it wouldn’t have addressed big money choosing the candidates. …

Amazon’s Prime Day is the ultimate capitalist “holiday.” …

On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support …

Today we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery …

Kamala Harris admitted that immigration from Latin America is a result of poverty. What she forgot to mention is that this poverty was imposed in the most violent way by the capitalists who rule the United States. …

The ongoing megadrought in the western U.S. is a symptom of capitalism. We need to get rid of this system in order to solve these kinds of problems. …

As unemployment benefits are running out, the media are telling us that people don’t want to work. …

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is defending religion-based discrimination against LGBTQ students. …

The Democrats complain about Republican efforts at voter suppression, but they don’t seem to be passing any laws about it in Congress. We can’t depend on them to act. …

The Biden administration continues to defend mining and oil projects, because it represents the capitalist system. …

The U.S. continues to maintain its empire with Biden at the head of the military. …

What They Say U.S. politicians from both parties say we fight wars to defend what …

We can’t rely on capitalists to stop building oil pipelines. Only a mass movement can. …

Texas’s ban on abortion must be fought – we can’t wait for the courts to decide. …

Black people were not given freedom from slavery – they had to fight for it. …

This brutal racist history cannot be forgotten. This capitalist system has proven over and over that it will never deliver justice, especially for Black people. …

On Memorial Day weekend, we remember the 1937 massacre of Chicago steelworkers. …