Human needs before profits

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

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