This is a repost of an article written by Adam Shils for the International Socialism Project posted on June 19, 2023. The labor movement is back in the news. The Screen Writers strike has gained wide publicity as A-list actors support the picket lines. Starbucks...
June 19, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Translated from French 600 dead. Men, women and children, crammed into a pathetic raft, most of them trapped at the bottom of the hold, were...
The budget bill just passed by Congress has a sickening shock for student loan borrowers: federal loan payments are due again. Since March 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began, student loan payments to the federal government had been frozen. This freeze was extended...
This week a lawsuit against the state of Montana was filed by 16 young people against the state’s support of the fossil fuel industry. The young people are suing the state, claiming that the government must uphold their right to “maintain and improve a clean and...
June 19th, known as Juneteenth, is the recognition of the last day of chattel slavery in the U.S. It was first celebrated by formerly enslaved people in Texas the year after Northern troops defeated pro-slavery forces there. This was two months after the end of the...
