Category: Articles

Getting the Vaccine to People Who Need It: Capitalism’s Logistical Nightmare

Now that a couple of vaccines have been approved for emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and healthcare workers have been receiving vaccinations in the first phase, other groups of individuals—like those aged 65 and older—are beginning to receive a vaccine for COVID-19. This should be a time for people […]

New York City: Strikers Win! But Police Show Whose Side They’re On

Nearly 1,400 workers at the Hunt’s Point Produce Market in the Bronx, New York City were fed up with low pay and complete lack of safety precautions during the pandemic. As essential workers who also need their daily pay to make ends meet, they worked straight through the pandemic to keep fresh food in markets. […]

What to Do When We Have Too Many Bodies to Cremate Safely?

In Los Angeles County, as healthcare providers lose the battle against COVID-19, environmental regulators have had to lift the limits on air pollution produced by crematoriums.  Environmentalists have long fought for these regulations and limits on how many bodies can be cremated each day. Studies have shown that crematoriums release toxic amounts of mercury into […]

A New Domestic Terrorism Law?

In a reaction to the Capitol attack, some are calling for a new domestic terrorism law. Would this just give the government more oppressive power?

Pharmaceutical Producers and Dealers Commit Murder

In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, it might be easy to forget about other public health crises we face. The opioid epidemic doesn’t rely on physical contact to infect people and isn’t spread through the air; however, it is an illness that has infected many people and killed close to half a million in the U.S. since […]

Capitol Protests: It Helps to Have Friends in High Places

On January 6, while Congress was reviewing the November election results, Trump held a rally and encouraged thousands of his supporters to march on to the Capitol, which they did. They gathered in front of the Capitol building and then gradually pushed forward, pushed aside the barriers, went up the steps and pushed the police […]

“Stand Back and Stand By” – This Protest Has Been Incited for Months

For hours, politicians and news pundits expressed their shock and surprise after Trump supporters pushed through police barricades and broke into the U.S. Capitol. But was any of this really that surprising? Isn’t this exactly the intended outcome after Trump and his Republican lackeys have been encouraging an event like this for months? Even before […]

COVID-19 versus Climate Change

COVID-19 has caused a large temporary decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. What will it take to permanently reduce emissions?

Democrats Bail When Feet Held to the Fire!

Democrats may claim to care about social justice, but when they have the opportunity to take action on issues such as ending contracts with ICE, their true priorities are revealed.

A Race to the End of the World

  Russia, China, and the U.S. are battling it out to see who can sink their teeth into the Arctic, staking claim to the region’s natural resources and strategic position. In what has been a years-long race, the stakes just keep getting higher, considering that the Arctic holds some of the world’s last unclaimed territories. […]

Healthcare Workers Tired and Scared

These two words best describe how healthcare workers across the board feel about dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been almost a year now since January 20th, when the first case of COVID-19 was announced in the U.S. Ever since, healthcare workers have been put through a series of confusing, stressful, and dangerous set-ups to […]

San Quentin Prison Staff Forcing Prisoners to Accept Liability for Their Own Deaths from COVID-19

Excerpted from a message from the No Justice Under Capitalism Coalition … San Quentin medical staff have been pressuring prisoners to sign waiver forms accepting legal responsibility for their own deaths from COVID-19. That, despite more than 10 months of continuous neglect and Eighth Amendment violations by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) which has, […]

The Hypocrisy of COVID Politics

The politicians institute restrictive measures while doing nothing to help people survive financially. Meanwhile, they violate their own standards to hang out with their wealthy friends.

Saltwater Invasion is Destroying Wild Trees and Plants as Well as Crops

Global heating is raising sea levels around the world, although at different rates in different places. All coastal areas will be threatened sooner or later. But some of the impacts are already serious. From the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida, and up to the Mid-Atlantic states, saltwater is invading forests and farms. Trees and plants […]

Tyson Foods – Management Places Bets on Workers Getting COVID

  The U.S. company Tyson Foods Inc., among the largest beef, pork and chicken producers in the world, has been at the center of ongoing COVID-related outbreaks throughout the pandemic. Already by May, there were over 4,500 infected workers and 18 deaths at Tyson facilities. Tyson Foods is being sued for gross negligence by multiple […]

Movie Review: Netflix’s The Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma attempts to explain the global phenomena that is social media, describing it as one of the most important tools for shaping society. It rightly points out the negative psychological consequences of these technologies. After all, they use sophisticated algorithms to addict us to their platforms, constantly bombarding us with ads, selective news […]

Fred Hampton: A Young Warrior of the Working Class

On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago police after being surveilled and stalked by the FBI. His life and death are worth remembering not simply because he is one of thousands of Black men who have been killed by law enforcement officials in America, or because his murder is a textbook example […]

Their “global security” is fueling our revolt!

Editorial of Convergences Revolutionnaires published by the Etincelle fraction of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) in France – November 29, 2020 Their “global security” is fueling our revolt! Since mid-November, demonstrations have been surging throughout France against the so-called “global security” bill and its Article 24, which seeks to penalize the dissemination of images of […]

Mass Protests Erupt in Peru

Since November 9, a mass movement of workers, the poor, and youth has swept across Peru, already ousting a President. The pandemic has been devastating in Peru. With over 934,000 cases and over 35,000 deaths, Peru has the highest number of deaths per capita in the world, double the death rate of the U.S. At […]

Bolivia: Prospects after the Electoral Victory of the MAS?

November 7, 2020 Translated from Convergences revolutionnaires, a publication of the fraction Etincelle of the NPA (New Anticaptalist Party) in France On October 18, Luis Arce, the MAS (Movement For Socialism) candidate, won Bolivia’s presidential election in the first round with 55.10% of the vote, compared to 28.83% for his main rival from the center-right, […]