Human needs before profits

People’s Townhomes residents continue the fight

Residents and supporters of the People’s Townhomes, formerly called University City Townhomes, continue to organize resistance as the eviction date…

September 20, 2022

Five years after Hurricane Maria: Puerto Ricans continue to struggle

A Call to Action on Puerto Rico, a U.S.-based collective with an anti-colonial, pro-independence perspective stated, “Given the damages caused…

September 19, 2022

Haiti explodes with cries of ‘down with misery’

Since August 22, the date when the Haitian Revolution began in 1791, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have taken to…

September 19, 2022

Ukraine: the invasion of capital to take over agriculture

By Michael Roberts Marxist economist Michael Roberts worked in the City of London (the British Wall Street) as an economist…

September 14, 2022

Global South countries strive for vaccine independence

A radical cooperative of 15 countries in the Global South is trying to create the next generation of messenger RNA…

September 12, 2022

Housing is health care

Over 100 health care workers from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) — including nurses, social workers and…

September 9, 2022

Lack of affordable housing makes HUD vouchers useless

On Sept. 1 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued its annual Fair Market Rents (FMR) report…

September 9, 2022

Guest commentary/My 70 years and the departed GDR

Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin August 2022 — It’s a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it’s nothing special. But…

September 9, 2022

Housing activists crash developers’ party

Philadelphia Residents of the University City Townhomes and their supporters, determined to save their homes from destruction by property developers,…

September 9, 2022

The people of Jackson, Mississippi, are in critical need

This statement from Cooperation Jackson on the current water crisis in the state capital of Jackson, Mississippi, and on the…

September 7, 2022