Human needs before profits

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

No ethical consumption under capitalism

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. That truism has been burned into my mind since the moment I entered…

December 9, 2021

Global supply chain crisis: Capitalism, militarism and infrastructure

Multiple issues confront the U.S. capitalist economy during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Of major impact is the global supply chain…

December 3, 2021

Youth leader at National Day of Mourning: ‘We are not vanishing’

By Kimimilasha James The following is a slightly edited talk given by Kimimilasha James on Nov. 25 at the 52nd…

December 2, 2021

What’s in your water?

What’s in your water? Can you trust that paper wrapped around your take-out sandwich — or the plastic clamshell —…

November 26, 2021