Human needs before profits

Boston homeless lead march

Boston’s organized homeless people continued their fightback against oppressive conditions in city shelters by mounting an unprecedented March of the…

April 30, 2015

Slowdown, unemployment plague world capitalism

The finance ministers of the largest capitalist economies exuded gloom and pessimism at the recent Washington meeting of the G-20.…

April 23, 2015

Detroit lawsuit demands right to public protest

A lawsuit largely initiated by the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop…

April 17, 2015

Why U.S. rulers fear new investment bank

Britain, France, Italy and Germany have agreed to join China in establishing an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. China has already…

April 1, 2015

Detroit faces massive tax foreclosure crisis

Bulletin: A temporary moratorium on tax foreclosures until May 12 was announced on March 31, after a mass demonstration outside…

March 31, 2015

Bosses get $243 billion subsidy for paying low wages

The capitalist class has found more and more ways to pay tens of millions of workers below-subsistence wages by shifting…

March 30, 2015

Slowing world capitalist economy puts workers in danger

The big business media have been crowing recently about the fall in the prices of crude oil and gasoline. They…

March 17, 2015

Three pigs that snatched $803 million

The three founders of the Carlyle Group — William Conway, Daniel D’Aniello and David Rubenstein — raked in $803 million…

March 5, 2015

What’s going on among the filthy rich

It's easy to get angry at the super rich these days. The percentage of households in the U.S. feeling the…

February 10, 2015

Michigan corporations get billions in tax credits while masses suffer

Detroit --  The capitalists and their servants have no shame when it comes to taking from the poorest and giving…

February 10, 2015