Human needs before profits

France election yields stinging rebuke for Macron

The second round of parliamentary elections in France held June 19 established two key facts. President Macron’s party suffered a…

July 1, 2022

Wide spectrum of class struggles at Labor Notes conference

Chicago The 2022 Labor Notes conference, sponsored by the magazine of the same name, brought 4,000 worker-activists to Chicago June…

June 26, 2022

How the ‘Janes’ created underground abortion access

A U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is expected to overturn the 1973 SCOTUS Roe…

June 24, 2022

Labor union in Tunisia resists the IMF

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied tried to stop the general strike, but 95% of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) membership…

June 20, 2022

Mass opposition to Biden’s Summit gains momentum

President Joe Biden’s Summit of the Americas is being boycotted by most countries in the Western hemisphere, and it is…

June 10, 2022

Capitalism and baby formula

The following article was posted on Black Agenda Report on May 25. The baby formula shortage is not a glitch…

June 10, 2022

West Virginia steelworkers locked out by greedy war profiteers

Union, West Virginia Roughly 250 workers at the Collins Aerospace plant in Union, West Virginia, have been locked out of…

June 9, 2022

Cuba-China cooperation leads to vaccine breakthrough

Cuba and China formally announced June 2 that they have filed for joint patent for a Pan-Corona vaccine. The new…

June 7, 2022

Profit-hungry company lures youth to guns

Across the U.S., capitalist politicians, including President Joe Biden, spew endless verbiage about the need to control assault weapons, yet…

June 6, 2022