Human needs before profits

$15 and a union!$15 and a union!

$15 and a union!

Philadelphia -- Low-wage workers and their supporters gathered outside a McDonald’s restaurant here on April 3 for the second time…

April 10, 2014

MLK & jobs

On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while showing solidarity with…

April 9, 2014
Detroiters object to austerity planDetroiters object to austerity plan

Detroiters object to austerity plan

The city of Detroit bankruptcy case is being played out in a courtroom far removed from the real future of…

April 1, 2014
Marxism explains long-term jobless growthMarxism explains long-term jobless growth

Marxism explains long-term jobless growth

Five years into the capitalist recovery, the crisis of mass, long-term unemployment will not go away. The Labor Department defines…

March 28, 2014
Protesters tell looters for 1%: ‘Detroit is NOT for sale’Protesters tell looters for 1%: ‘Detroit is NOT for sale’

Protesters tell looters for 1%: ‘Detroit is NOT for sale’

The ultra-right-wing, anti-union, anti-people Manhattan Policy Institute hosted the notorious looters of Detroit’s pensions and treasury, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder…

March 28, 2014
Extreme inequality growingExtreme inequality growing

Extreme inequality growing

Class exploitation at the root The International Monetary Fund recently published a paper sounding the alarm about the global trend…

March 24, 2014

‘People’s objections’ to be filed in Detroit bankruptcy case

Detroit, March 16 — The last day to file objections to the city of Detroit’s austerity “Plan of Adjustment” in…

March 21, 2014
Racist neglect behind East Harlem explosionRacist neglect behind East Harlem explosion

Racist neglect behind East Harlem explosion

New York --  Another capitalist atrocity against the poor and people of color occurred in the neighborhood of East Harlem,…

March 17, 2014