Getting Rich off of COVID
Since the COVID-19 crisis began, tax revenues for state and local governments that provide services like public hospitals, school systems, and bus and subway service have fallen 13 percent. State and local governments have laws requiring balanced budgets, so local politicians are warning of big cuts to services and big layoffs unless the federal government […]
Argentina: The Left-Wing Government Represses the Poor
October 30, 2020 – Translated from an article in Convergences Revolutionnaires, a publication of Etincelle in France On October 29, at dawn, an imposing force of 4,000 police officers intervened to put an end to land occupations in Guernica in the greater Buenos Aires area. They brutally dislodged the inhabitants, burned their hastily built makeshift […]
Dreaming of a Better World
By now, you’ve surely heard about the TikTok video that recently went viral featuring a man cruising on a skateboard, singing along with Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”, and drinking from a bottle of Ocean Spray’s Cran-Raspberry juice. For Nathan Apodaca, it was just another day commuting to his job of almost 20 years working in a […]
California Hospitals Deny Emergency Services to Uninsured
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to show the utter disregard for human life in the profit-focused U.S. healthcare system.