Three Ways a Green New Deal Can Promote Life Over Capital
The Green New Deal could have the power to take our lives back from the logic of capitalism. Here’s how.
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Labour is Changing the Way Politics Works
Political parties these days are rarely in touch with ordinary voters except at election time. With its new community organizing program, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is starting to change that.
A Hot Lunch Is a Human Right
Denying students a hot lunch because they’re too poor to pay is shameful. Food employee unions should lead the way in overturning this grotesque practice — by committing civil disobedience and serving all students, regardless of their family’s income.
This Pandemic Demands More Than a Few Health Care Tweaks. We Must Socialize the Hospitals.
In response to the pandemic, some governors are starting to reorganize their health systems to limit destructive competition and coordinate care between private and public hospitals. But we need to think bigger: a fully public, universal hospital system modeled on the UK’s National Health Service.
Doing Time in the Potato Chip Factory
In the twenty-first century, a master's degree and a journalism job is not enough to keep you out of driving Uber and working at the potato chip factory.
Chicago Teachers Are Preparing to Strike — and Bernie Sanders Has Their Back
The Chicago Teachers Union just voted to go on strike this month to fight the bipartisan austerity agenda that's destroying public education. And guess who has their back? Bernie Sanders.
Quitting Cold Turkey
Drug trials run by pharmaceutical companies are a disaster for public health. Fortunately, there’s an alternative.
Defense Spending: the Endless Frontier
The military sets the agenda for scientific research, so it's still much easier to get funding to develop new bombs than to get the resources to develop new, potentially life-saving antibiotics.
Serve the People
Homelessness isn’t an accident. It’s the result of a brutal economic system and conscious state policy.
We’re Still Picking up the Pieces of the Last Crisis
After the bank bailouts in 2008, the next stage in the government’s response was to cut spending on public services and lump even greater responsibilities onto private households. The end result was a huge rise in informal and unpaid labor carried out by women — and faced with the current shutdown, the losers from the last crisis are being punished even further.
We Didn’t Start the Fire
Class conflict isn’t something we choose to engage in. It’s just how capitalism works.
Honeymoon for the Brazilian Right
Despite some victories for the socialist left, last weekend’s Brazilian municipal elections saw the continued rise of the Right.
Why the Corporate Media Won’t Call It a Coup
The corporate media stands united in opposition against leftists in Latin America. That’s why it refuses to state the obvious: Bolivian president Evo Morales was deposed over the weekend in a violent coup.
A Captive Market
As if locking up mass numbers of people in cages weren’t depraved enough, jails and prisons around the country are now charging prisoners exorbitant fees to read, listen to music, and speak to their family and friends. It’s a gross violation and exploitation of prisoners’ basic rights to enjoy culture and connect with other humans.
A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike
Why do workers have a right to strike? Because it’s one of the best means they have to resist their oppression.
Rent Control’s Momentum
The midterms offered mixed results for affordable housing advocates. But one thing is clear: rent control is back on the agenda.
Puerto Rico’s Not-So-Natural Disaster
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico is a product of brutal austerity and inept leadership.
Unions Are Starting Discussions of How to Resist a Trump Coup
Unlike most of the world, American unions have almost no history of waging political mass strikes. But with Donald Trump’s exceptionally dangerous and undemocratic threats, some unions are discussing the possibility of withholding their labor to stop him from stealing the election.
Vietnam Gambles on Workers’ Rights
In a desperate effort to tame rebellious workers, Vietnam is now building a collective bargaining regime. But empowering independent trade unions could backfire for the country’s authoritarian government — and allow workers to fight back against multinational capital.
This Bunkered Island
Britain is a nation in crisis and decline. But the Right doesn't have to remain in the driver's seat.