Human needs before profits

Humanitarian crisis grows in Mozambique due to Cyclone Idai, global warming

March 30 -- Tropical Cyclone Idai hit the southeastern portion of Africa very hard, especially certain regions of Mozambique, Malawi…

April 2, 2019

Goodson’s family speaks out, demands subway elevators

Official explanations of major events would have us believe that bad things happen to people at random -- tragic incidents…

April 2, 2019

Black and Brown workers reveal Philadelphia City Council gentrification scheme

At 2 a.m. on the night of Feb. 23, over 50 people were gathered outside Philadelphia’s Ninth Police Precinct building…

March 25, 2019

Dynamic struggle for transit accessibility gains ground

A series of positive rulings have been won in court recently on the issue of public transportation accessibility. They have…

March 19, 2019

Pennsylvania prisoners punished after Dept. of Corrections embarrassed in Federal Court

Frackville, Pa. -- For the last six months, Pennsylvania state prison staff have been systematically opening and duplicating all legal…

March 15, 2019

Yellow Vests called ‘hateful, rioters, anti-Semitic’ … What else?

Herrera is a Marxist economist, a researcher at the Centre national de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS), who works at the…

March 15, 2019

A new generation of socialists is coming

The crowd roared when the head of the imperialist/capitalist state proclaimed that “America will never be a socialist country.” Donald…

March 12, 2019

Hunger and the crisis in agriculture

Do you know what it feels like to be hungry? Not just missing a meal, or being too busy to…

March 12, 2019

Impact of global warming on Arctic community in Nome, Alaska

Nome, Alaska, had back-to-back blizzards followed by rain, ending a February that saw temperatures in the upper 20s or low…

March 11, 2019

Cruel and unusual punishment: Executions temporarily halted in Ohio

Anti-death penalty activists have been fighting for decades in an uphill battle to end the barbaric and racist practice of…

March 6, 2019