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How Capitalist Competition Hobbled the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

Big pharma firms like Pfizer are marketing COVID-19 vaccines for a profit, yet the research behind them would have been impossible without universities and public funding. The lack of an international public health response has placed capitalist profit over human need — and will leave billions of people unvaccinated.

Just Give Us the Damn Checks

Opponents of the $2,000 survival checks claim they're poorly targeted. That's nonsense. They would help the working class and poor far more than the rich.

How Julian Assange Beat Extradition

Julian Assange’s defeat of extradition to the United States was a huge victory — one that couldn’t have been achieved without a public pressure campaign. That same public pressure will now be needed to free Assange from prison.

The RESTAURANTS Act Is the Wrong Way to Save the Restaurant Industry

Workers in the restaurant industry are in dire straits all across the country. But the RESTAURANTS Act proposed in Congress is a $120 billion handout to industry owners with no substantive guarantees for the workers who are suffering immensely right now. We can’t trust celebrity chefs and CEOs with trickle-down relief.