Category: Articles

Increasing Oil and Gas Production to Fight the Climate Crisis?

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has been hailed as the largest climate bill ever passed by the U.S. government. This doesn’t really mean much since neither party in the U.S. has ever taken any significant action to stop the climate crisis. When he was running for President, part of Biden’s campaign promise was to take […]

Worker Productivity Scores: Exploitation Gets an Innovation

The bosses are always trying to find new ways to squeeze more work out of us throughout the day. If there’s any way bosses can find to make us work more like machines, they’ll take it. And in response to the increasing numbers of workers working from home due to Covid, companies decided to monitor […]

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of People’s Historian Howard Zinn

(August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) Today, August 24, marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth. Many of us may know Zinn as a great historian, but he was more than just that. He was also a fighter and critic of the system of exploitation and war that poor and working people confront […]

Hard days on the picket lines, but baristas pour into unions

This is a repost of a recent article by Adam Shils for the International Socialism Project, originally posted on August 17, 2022. We post reprints like this to call attention to important ideas that might influence working class and other organizing, whether we agree with those ideas wholeheartedly or not, and to stimulate constructive discussion […]

Trump’s Crimes Highlight the Political Crisis in this Country

On August 8, the FBI carried out an unprecedented raid on Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, reportedly seizing about 20 boxes of items, including a variety of classified material. According to The Washington Post, the seized documents included multiple types of classified documents, including “TS/SCI documents,” which refers to “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” which is […]

Kaiser Mental Health Clinicians Fight for the Care Their Patients Deserve

Thousands of Northern California Kaiser mental health clinicians have been on strike since Monday, advocating for better mental healthcare for their patients. This comes after a year of failed negotiations between the union and Kaiser to increase staffing and provide more timely care to patients. These clinicians understand first-hand the importance of adequate access to […]

People’s Park in Berkeley, CA is Under Attack!

Early in the morning on Wednesday, August 3rd, UC Berkeley started demolishing People’s Park in Berkeley, California to build student housing. Riot police and private security guards stood guard throughout the morning as workers installed perimeter fencing around the park and started cutting down trees. Throughout the night, groups of protesters were unable to prevent […]

The Inflation Reduction Act is Nothing to Celebrate

The Democrats and their supporters are trying to paint the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act as if it just saved the planet from climate catastrophe, solved the health care crisis, and made the corporations pay for it. In fact, it doesn’t even come close. The bill will spend tens of billions of dollars on […]

Mexico Water Shortage: A Warning to the World

Mexico is running out of water. Almost half of Mexico’s territory is currently experiencing a drought and there have been water shortages in over half of Mexico’s municipalities. In many cities and neighborhoods the taps have run dry for days at a time. In some parts of the city of Monterrey — which has been […]

“Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now” — A Book for This Time

Save the Date! Jenny Brown, author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now will be speaking at our town hall on Sunday, September 25 at 4:00pm – 5:30 pm (pdt) (7:00pm – 8:30 pm (edt)). She will be discussing her book and the overall attacks on reproductive rights and a strategy for fighting back. Please […]

(video) U.S. Rail Workers Could Strike and Shut Down the Economy

The following short video {5 min} was produced and edited by Paula Pecorella and Meg Herschlein for the website More Perfect Union. In this excellent video railroad workers discuss many of the reasons that could lead to a major railroad strike in the U.S. as soon as next month, in September 2022. Over the past […]

BART: Do the Math

The following article has been edited and reprinted from our workplace newsletter at BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT. The BART Board approved the tentative agreement and it is now a contract. That means a 10.5% wage increase over three years. But where does that leave BART workers after a 2.75% wage increase in 2020? We are […]

Oil and Gas Companies Profit Off of Our Misery

Over the last few days, major oil and gas companies released their quarterly earning reports. While most regular people were suffering from unaffordable gas prices, most of the companies reached near or all-time profit records for the second quarter of 2022. BP reported its highest profits in 14 years, a threefold increase from its earnings […]

Media and Capitalists Ignore Climate Realities

This summer has been unprecedented in many ways. Much of the world has been experiencing exceptional heat, there have been wildfires incredibly large in size, and nearly every continent in the world is currently in a drought somewhere. These unprecedented environmental anomalies are not isolated incidents. They are the symptoms of a world afflicted with […]

Bill Russell – A Fighter For Justice

Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Bill Russell, considered one of the greatest basketball players ever to live, passed away on July 31st at the age of 88. He is best known for his dominant defending and impact in the basketball world, but is equally admirable for his actions off the court. Russell was born and raised in Monroe, Louisiana until […]

What the Webb Space Telescope Reveals

The images from the James Webb Space Telescope show the enormous potential of humanity. Imagine how much more we could do if we weren’t organized under an exploitative, destructive system.

The January 6 Hearings: Exposing the Threat to Their So-Called Democracy

January 6 Capitol Riot

After weeks of nationally televised and publicized hearings, the January 6 House Committee has laid out damning evidence against Donald Trump and many top members of his administration and inner circle. After conducting over 1,000 interviews, reviewing thousands of hours of video footage and collecting tens of thousands of documents, the committee has presented an […]

Biden Administration Attacks Rail Workers

As working conditions in the rail industry have worsened, Biden has used an executive order to create a board to mediate a labor dispute and prevent rail workers from striking for 60 days.

Extreme Heat Shows We Can No Longer Ignore Climate Realities 

Europe is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave that has already killed over 1,900 people. Temperatures across Europe are breaking records. Combined with exceptionally dry conditions, the spread of wildfires and water shortages threaten the continent. Italy is experiencing the worst drought in 70 years. Wildfires span massive areas of France, Spain, Portugal, and Croatia, forcing tens of thousands of […]

Baltimore Squeegee Workers: Whose Streets?

A recent shooting involving a squeegee worker and a motorist has brought up the issue of what to do about squeegee workers. Politicians for years have been unable to help, because they are unwilling to challenge the racist, profiteering system.

As Housing Costs Rise in Tennessee, So Does the Houseless Population

Over 580,000 unhoused people live in the United States, and Chattanooga, TN is one location currently experiencing an unhoused population boom. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the number of unhoused people has increased by 177% in the last year. And the year before that, from 2020 to 2021, it increased by 81%. Meanwhile, […]