Human needs before profits

Pandemic used as proxy to privatize USPS

U.S. Postal Service workers, like health care workers, go to work every day risking exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Over…

April 29, 2020

International Workers’ Day: Find an action!

May Day — International Workers’ Day — will be celebrated on May 1 across the U.S. despite the challenges imposed…

April 28, 2020

Pandemia y capitalismo están detrás del aumento del hambre en EE.UU.

Los productores lecheros están vertiendo millones de galones de leche en las lagunas. Los productores agrícolas están volcando las verduras…

April 28, 2020

Lenin: Thinker and fighter

April 22, 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution. This…

April 27, 2020

On the picket line

New sexual harassment suit against McDonald’s Jamelia Fairley and Ashley Reddick, who worked for several years at McDonald’s in Sanford,…

April 23, 2020

COVID-19 and the crisis of the elderly

San Antonio, Texas This Texas city rarely makes national news. But since the outbreak of COVID-19, the so-called River City…

April 22, 2020

Pandemic & capitalism are behind the rise of hunger in the U.S.

Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of milk into lagoons. Produce farmers are plowing fresh vegetables back into the…

April 22, 2020

<div class="streamer">WW Commentary:</div> People with disabilities fight to be counted in the battle vs. COVID-19 and depression

“When the able-bodied community gets the sniffles, we get pneumonia. … The difficulties are multiplied tenfold,” said Damien Gregory, an…

April 22, 2020

100+ strikes demand: PPE before profits!

Since the beginning of March, workers have held over 100 walkouts, sick-outs, sit-ins, pickets and protests over their bosses’ failure…

April 21, 2020

Big money backs ultra-rightist protests to ‘open the economy’

Amidst the unending stream of grim news flowing from the COVID crisis, a new disturbing image has emerged over the…

April 21, 2020