The COVID-19 pandemic: a historic event that will intensify global working-class struggle

June 3, 2020

Below is an article first posted online on April 24 by Tom Soto, who died on May 31. Comrade Soto…

Striking New Orleans sanitation workers fired, replaced by prison slave labor

June 3, 2020

Sanitation workers in New Orleans are fed up with low pay, long hours and hazardous conditions. Their problems are magnified…

Brazil’s Trump: Bolsonaro is the ‘biggest threat’ to COVID response

June 3, 2020

On May 9, The Lancet medical journal, in assessing the COVID crisis in Brazil, wrote that “perhaps the biggest threat…

Economics behind the rebellion

June 3, 2020

Between March 18 and April 10,  over 22 million people lost their jobs as the unemployment rate surged toward 15…

Not a riot – REBELLION!

June 2, 2020

June 1 — A militant, youth-led uprising, ignited by police terror, has swept across the United States like wildfire, and…

WW photographer targeted by police

June 2, 2020

On June 1, while taking photos at a Justice for George Floyd march in Philadelphia, Joe Piette, whose photographs appear…

Trump, WHO, the pandemic and big pharma

June 2, 2020

Smack in the middle of the biggest pandemic in a century, President Donald Trump has announced he is withdrawing the…

Big banks profit from COVID-19 as food, shelter, even water at risk for millions

June 2, 2020

On top of COVID-19, another epidemic — one of growing hunger, evictions and foreclosures — now looms over millions of…

The Bronx is burning again: COVID-19’s impact on New York’s most underserved district

June 2, 2020

COVID-19 continues to rage on as an international pandemic months after the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China.  Never to be…

Resisting imprisonment

June 1, 2020

Prisoners are acting to protect themselves and each other in the middle of the global pandemic as they protest inhuman…