Human needs before profits

Why is everything so expensive?

The prices of all basic goods and services necessary for human survival have been going up — in some cases,…

January 3, 2022

Workers, supporters demand ‘Amazon, recognize the Union now!’

Steps away from Broadway shows shut down by spiking COVID-19 numbers in New York City, a crowd of more than…

December 24, 2021

Rally for Amazon workers! Dec. 22, New York City

New York City Amazon union organizing is accelerating, as Staten Island Amazon workers refile for union election. On Dec. 22…

December 20, 2021

Murder and the rate of return – an editorial

In a footnote to Volume 1 of Capital, first published in 1867, Karl Marx quoted from the 19th century English…

December 20, 2021

Portland demands: Dump DeJoy

Portland, Oregon’s Communities and Postal Workers United held a press conference and rally Dec. 8 to “Purge the Postmaster General…

December 17, 2021

Drug users need unions, compassion clubs

Drug users and abusers, as a group of people, are among the most oppressed of our class. Because of this,…

December 17, 2021

NYC opens first safe consumption sites

With fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses dramatically rising during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. needs a new strategy for countering…

December 16, 2021

Why Cuba has no anti-vaccine movement

In the imperialist countries, honest skepticism about government handling of the COVID-19 crisis and the profit-driven decisions of pharmaceutical companies…

December 13, 2021

New variant, same problem: Joint U.S.-China solidarity book tackles COVID

The continuing U.S. COVID crisis was predicted in a book published a year ago. “Capitalism on a Ventilator,” a unique…

December 10, 2021