Category: Articles

Alaskan National Forest Opened Up for Logging

In the latest of the Trump administration environmental protection rollbacks, 17 million acres of the Alaskan Tongass National Forest have been opened up for logging and other development. This is more than half of one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests. This forest is also home to century old trees, a rich wildlife, and […]

COVID-19 Surging Again

Trump had been trumpeting that media reports on COVID-19 would end right after the election. Well, contrary to what the current president has said, the election is over, and we are far from “rounding the corner” on this virus. Instead, we are hitting new records. One was broken last Friday, with 82,929 cases reported in […]

We Can’t Let Elections Decide Our Future

Trump and Biden may have their differences, but they both defend this system of capitalism, which profits off the labor of working people and is responsible for the problems we face today.

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 […]

Who Owns Congress?

Our government isn’t an impartial democracy, it’s a democracy of the rich.

Who Owns the Supreme Court?

Monied interests have been controlling the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, as with the rest of the system, serves the rich.

Water Battle Erupts Between Mexico and U.S.

Since 1944, the United States and Mexico have shared water across their border, with the U.S. sending water south from the Colorado River, and Mexico moving water northward from the state of Chihuahua. But climate disruption has caused warmer temperatures and longer droughts. And with the intensity of the drought in Chihuahua this year, Mexico […]

Amazon: Increasing Profits and Increasing Infections

While a record number of small businesses are closing during the pandemic, Amazon’s package delivery is soaring. They’ve had to add over 175,000 employees since March. Their sales increased by 40% from April to June, and its quarterly profit of $5.2 billion was its biggest ever. But profits aren’t the only thing skyrocketing at Amazon […]

Against religious fascism, we do not have the same values as… Macron!

October 19, 2020 – Editorial of “The Etincelle” (The Spark) workplace newsletters in France {An imperfect translation. Notes have been added as explanation} A high school teacher was beheaded near his school outside of Paris. A price had been placed on his head by religious fanatics, in reality fascists who poison the Muslim world. He […]

The German Economy and the Covid Crisis

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from German] Germany is the European country with the biggest bail-out packages linked to the Covid crisis. Even though some measures have eased social emergencies, for example the temporary decrease to the sales tax (“Value Added Tax”) that helps poorer households, the crisis and […]

The Class Struggle in France During the Pandemic

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] Now that life seems to be returning to “normal” (or rather “abnormal,” as many workers call it), a new generalized offensive is being launched against the working class. The bosses, who did not wait for the end of quarantine to get rid […]

What Perspectives, Following the Shockwave of Protests Around the World?

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] In the year before the Covid crisis, revolts had multiplied throughout the world. In Chile, from the students protesting against the increase in the price of subway tickets, the anger spread to wide swaths of the whole working classes. In Iran, anger […]

Is a Regroupment of Revolutionaries Something to Embrace? Where to Start and Where to go to?

International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 (written in April 2020) [this article has been translated from French] It is obvious that communist revolutionaries, first and foremost the Trotskyists, today lack an international organization that could be a general staff of proletarian forces, a leadership for all those who have only their labor power to live […]

Armenia and Azerbaijan at War

Dozens of deaths, hundreds of wounded, civilians and soldiers: what recently was a disturbing skirmish is now turning into a real war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Southern Caucasus over control of the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ‘Autonomous Republic’ during the time of the USSR, belonging to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan but […]

No Relief for Workers as Stimulus Delayed Until After Election

Democrats and Republicans in Congress still won’t pass another so-called stimulus bill. Even though the first stimulus passed back in March went mostly to banks and corporations, it still provided some needed relief. But Congress has been nit-picking for months over the size of the crumbs that the next stimulus will provide to working people. […]

The Economy’s Getting Better? Who Are They Kidding?

Trump says the economy is getting better. But unemployment is still much higher than it was pre-pandemic, and industries have started to outright lay people off. Do we really think the politicians will make things better for us?