Human needs before profits

Comey’s testimony and the Big Lie: Elections, democracy and the FBI

Assuming that the FBI is ‘nonpolitical’ with respect to the capitalist political parties, all its neutrality goes out the window…

June 12, 2017

Fight for affordable housing not over

Without warning, in the early morning hours of June 2, dozens of Georgia State University police raided Tent City, built…

June 5, 2017

Trump: Front man for Wall St., Pentagon

Trump is opening a full-scale assault against the workers and oppressed. The anti-Russia campaign is the last thing the movement…

May 31, 2017

Flint still resists water crisis

April 25 marked the third anniversary of the ongoing Flint, Mich., water crisis. Dependency on bottled water has become a…

May 19, 2017

The hard work of keeping the trains running

The 600,000 or so people who daily use the transportation hub at Penn Station here depend on maintenance-of-way (MW) workers.…

May 19, 2017

Congress be damned — Fight for free healthcare

Ever since the health care system was turned over to the insurers and drug companies under the Bill Clinton administration,…

May 10, 2017

Tens of thousands face foreclosures, water shutoffs

Over 8,000 Flint, Mich., families are facing the loss of their homes due to unpaid bills for poisoned water. The…

May 10, 2017

The real loan sharks

The feds have arrested 10 “wise guys” for loan sharking in New York City’s Howard Beach, a neighborhood made notorious…

May 7, 2017

Restructuring retail: Tens of thousands laid off — more to come

The restructuring in retail is different in form from manufacturing but the same in essence, as far as the working…

April 25, 2017

Bay Area acts to halt home evictions

Over 60 community members and activists gathered March 29 in front of the former Oakland family home of 76-year-old matriarch…

April 10, 2017