Human needs before profits

Rich benefit from Cuomo ‘jobs program’

Workers have had to fight for jobs for a long time. In response to the economic panic and depression of…

July 24, 2016

Out of the headlines, Flint’s water still unsafe

Only a few months ago the Flint water crisis was front-page news around the country. The world learned of the…

July 8, 2016

Puerto Rico’s new phase: People resist financial junta

On June 30 when President Barack Obama signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act -- PROMESA (meaning…

July 6, 2016

Detroit activists fight to stop evictions

Jeanette Shannon was evicted from her Detroit home on June 3 after a protracted fight with fraudulent real estate interests…

June 8, 2016

Capitalism, in brief

A short primer on capitalism: 1. The current crisis is a crisis of capitalism. It is not a crisis of…

June 3, 2016

Flint crisis drags on

The struggle for justice continues in Flint. The crisis of lead contamination, caused by a failure to add anti-corrosive chemicals…

May 18, 2016

Detroiters to bank: Housing is a right!

In her youth, Detroit resident Barbara Campbell was an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, as a senior,…

May 11, 2016

Jobs, globalization and election promises

The question of what has happened to jobs in the United States is of course of the utmost concern to…

May 2, 2016

Too big to fail?

“Too big to fail.” How often have we heard that recently? The Federal Reserve Board says that five U.S. banks…

April 24, 2016

GE’s ‘moral fabric’ and its forgotten socialist wizard

Is General Electric one of the corporations “destroying the moral fabric” of the United States? That’s what Bernie Sanders told…

April 15, 2016