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Biden claims to be going after the billionaires, but his planned tax increase doesn’t even undo Trump’s decrease. …

The United States recognized the Armenian genocide, which is a step forward. What about its own atrocities? …

The CEO of Emergent Biosolutions sold $10 million worth of stock before it fell 50% due to reports of vaccine production problems. …

In the aftermath of the police killing of Daunte Wright, the Democrats are promoting illusions in the fundamental role of the police. …

Racist attacks on voting rights need to be opposed. …

Many state legislatures have been passing laws targeting LGBTQ people, especially transgender people. …

The day before George Floyd’s murderer was convicted, the police murdered Mario Gonzalez. …

Alameda County has been indicted for violating the rights of mental health patients. …

The NBA is scheduling more games in fewer days, leading to players not having enough rest between games and increasing injury rates. …

The extremely rich are using their wealth to move trees to their homes. …

Demonstrations in Oakland Today! Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States. In …

Debate about whether police were justified in killing Ma’Khia Bryant doesn’t address the question of the role of police and the purpose of their violence. …

Biden announced a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. This does not change the substance of U.S. foreign policy. …

The conviction of Chauvin does not change the oppressive role of the police. We still need a social order that is not based on inequality. …

Regardless of the result of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the racist capitalist system will continue until it is overthrown. …

The NCAA’s exploitation of athletes and its sexist funding disparity are a reflection of the capitalist system. …

The Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere are engaged in a thinly-disguised attempt to prevent Black people from voting. Although voting is insufficient to solve our problems, we must oppose this racist attack on our civil rights. …

Emergent BioSolutions botched millions of vaccine doses. They are focused more on profit than producing good vaccines. …

Yet another Black man has been unjustly killed by the cops. …

The truth came out that policies under the Trump administration increased the number of COVID deaths. But even under the Biden administration, with loosening restrictions, we risk more virus transmission. …

Inmates in a St. Louis jail protested against their detention, because the city has been keeping them locked up without a trial. …

Biden’s American Jobs Plan does not address the root causes of infrastructure decay or climate change. …

The Piney Point disaster was completely preventable, if the system didn’t prioritize profit over all else. …

The Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama lost their unionization drive. This defeat must be viewed in the proper context in order to gain the understanding necessary for victory in the future. …

In 2020, the most profitable U.S. corporations once again paid no taxes, thanks to loopholes in the system. …

On April 8, 1952, President Truman ordered the nationalization of the steel mills in an attempt to prevent the workers from striking. …

The Democrats are part of the system that created the United States’ cruel border policies. It is not surprising to see them continue the practices of the Trump administration. …

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen. …

The murder rate increased in 2020, a symptom of a sickness in our society. …

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. …

This system throws people away and blames them in the process. It forces people to survive out of their cars in droves, scraping together pennies working back breaking jobs until they die. And the film Nomadland tells some of their stories. …

The disaster in Texas is just another reminder of what’s in store for us if we continue to leave our future in the hands of those who run a system guided by the drive for profits, regardless of the impact. Our future depends on our determination to come together and fight against this system – to fight for a world that represents all of our interests. …

No worker of any race or gender should have their livelihood subjected to pleasing the whims of individual clients. This racist legacy should be abolished, and living wages should be guaranteed for all labor. …

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. …

The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …

On January 20, it was hard not to feel anxious. Would Trump really leave? Would …

A vaccine seems like the best solution available to slow down and limit the COVID …

On January 6, while Congress was reviewing the November election results, Trump held a rally …

For hours, politicians and news pundits expressed their shock and surprise after Trump supporters pushed …

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. …

  The U.S. company Tyson Foods Inc., among the largest beef, pork and chicken producers …

Now, it will depend on workers to make sure guidelines are followed. …

Both parties protect the big business system …

November 20 marks the 51st anniversary of the start of the Alcatraz occupation by indigenous activists. …

The United States government, as designed, is far from a democracy. If we desire true democracy, we must change the system. …

The movie is limited in scope, but worth a watch. …

Trump and Biden may have their differences, but they both defend this system of capitalism, which profits off the labor of working people and is responsible for the problems we face today. …

Our government isn’t an impartial democracy, it’s a democracy of the rich. …