Human needs before profits

Emancipation Day in Rhode Island

Activists from the Black community gathered in Providence, R.I., June 19, with allies to commemorate Emancipation Day, also known as…

July 1, 2021

Pakistan: Corporate and state terror drives forced displacement

Karachi — On June 6, the Sindh Action Committee organized a protest and sit-in to draw attention to the systematic…

July 1, 2021

Laid-off McDonald’s workers in France take over restaurant, feed the hungry

Marseille is the second largest city in France. It is a very old city, founded around 500 BCE because it…

June 29, 2021

Capitalism behind fatal building disasters

Two preventable catastrophes caused by capitalist greed in housing construction occurred four years and thousands of miles apart, and in…

June 28, 2021

Ye who shall not work (for low wages) shall not eat

In 2017, to justify changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Rep. Jodey Arrington leaned on the scriptures — specifically…

June 15, 2021

Shambling recovery from the COVID economic crisis

President Biden interrupted a long weekend at the Delaware shore to claim credit for the 559,000 new jobs which the…

June 9, 2021

Workers need unions – Amazon offers ‘despair closets’

Just when it seemed impossible for Jeff Bezos and other Amazon bosses to be any more clueless and insensitive toward…

June 4, 2021

Massive response of Greek workers to attack on the eight-hour day

For the past month, Greek workers have been protesting the right-wing New Democracy government’s attempt to enshrine a 10-hour work…

June 4, 2021

French unions respond to housing crisis

According to the French housing alliance Right to Housing (DAL--Droit au Logement), cops are prepared to evict 30,000 families starting…

June 3, 2021

Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people

At every stage in the criminal injustice system, LGBTQ2S+ people are overrepresented, including within the juvenile justice system. According to…

May 28, 2021