Health care workers resist bigots and bosses

April 27, 2020

Antiscientific and right-wing attacks have intensified against efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. — with the U.S.…

Happy birthday, Mumia!

April 27, 2020

A global audience was able to view a virtual press conference on April 23 focused on journalist and Pennsylvania political…

A message to my supporters

April 27, 2020

This slightly edited April 24 commentary by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to his supporters on his 66th birthday is available…

Longterm impact of historic oil price plunge

April 24, 2020

For the first time in history, on April 20 the price of U.S. oil fell to minus $38 per barrel.…

COVID-19 and basic facts of Marxist economics

April 24, 2020

The stock market crashed in March but partly recovered after the Federal Reserve Bank lowered the interest rate for borrowing.…

Celebrating Vietnam’s victory over U.S. aggressors

April 24, 2020

Forty-five years ago on April 30, 1975, the United States was dealt a decisive, humiliating defeat in its imperialist intervention…

On the picket line

April 23, 2020

New sexual harassment suit against McDonald’s Jamelia Fairley and Ashley Reddick, who worked for several years at McDonald’s in Sanford,…

Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters respond quickly to prison hoax

April 22, 2020

When a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson callously claimed that Mumia Abu-Jamal was being hospitalized with COVID-19 at 5 p.m.…

On the 150th anniversary of his birth/Lenin’s April Theses

April 22, 2020

April 22, 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution.  In…

COVID-19 and the crisis of the elderly

April 22, 2020

San Antonio, Texas This Texas city rarely makes national news. But since the outbreak of COVID-19, the so-called River City…