Human needs before profits

Grocery workers win big in King Soopers strike

Denver Pickets were called off at 6 a.m. Jan. 20, as United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 reached a…

January 27, 2022

People who use drugs demand harm-reduction strategies

By AEzra El, Devin Cole and Princess Harmony Roughly five-and-a-half minutes. Statistically speaking, that’s the interval between every life lost…

January 27, 2022

Students and teachers fight for safe schools

By Judy Greenspan and Minnie Bruce Pratt In the struggle over public schools, the question is what will win out…

January 20, 2022

Safe, affordable housing is a right!

Philadelphia On Jan. 5, 12 people, including nine children in an extended family, died in a row house fire in…

January 17, 2022

OSHA, SCOTUS and COVID-19

Each week new evidence emerges that U.S. capitalist institutions mismanage society and sabotage any actions that might aid the working…

January 17, 2022

Panama’s 1964 popular anti-imperialist explosion

Beluche is a Panamanian political analyst. Translation: John Catalinotto. On January 9, 1964, a true popular revolution in the full…

January 14, 2022

In Cuba, how La Güinera made room for more gender 

This lightly edited excerpt is from part 105 of Leslie Feinberg’s “Lavender and Red” series on the interconnections between LGBTQ+…

January 14, 2022

The inferno industry and PG&E

Jan. 8 — In the first week of 2022, California fire officials finally placed the blame for the massive Dixie…

January 10, 2022

On the picket line

What just happened? The past year has been a brutal wake-up call for the working class. The pandemic has killed…

January 7, 2022

The pandemic economy – sick workers can’t do their jobs

When the media is full of reports of thousands upon thousands of airline flight cancellations; of subway lines in New…

January 5, 2022