Labor Day is a holiday in the United States that supposedly celebrates the achievements and history of working people. Some politicians and union officials may give speeches celebrating the efforts of the nation’s working people. There will probably be some “Labor...
Capitalism has always depended on the labor of women for profits. Women have often been paid very little or nothing at all, and today they occupy the largest portion of the most essential, precarious and worst-paying jobs. Globally, women make up: 70% of healthcare...
On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support of striking workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois (today part of Chicago’s South Side). This boycott meant workers all across the railway industry refused to...
The capitalist system has put humanity in an emergency situation, facing global pandemics, endless wars and militarism, racism, oppression, inequality, the exploitation of the majority of the world’s people, and an environmental catastrophe that threatens all...
On June 13th Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister, was unseated by Naftali Bennett, a politician even farther to the right than Netanyahu. Just days into the new coalition government led by Bennett, there has already been a new round of racist...
