This week, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, when 150,000 workers across the Bay Area shut down the city for four days in a tremendous display of worker power. The strike had begun on May 9 as a West Coast-wide walkout of...
The International Energy Agency published a report earlier in 2024 with a warning that the demand for energy is predicted to grow at a faster rate over the next two years. One of the main contributing factors is the growth of data centers. Data centers are massive...
(reprinted from the BART newsletter) Earlier this year during the negotiations with the Big 3 auto companies, UAW president, Shawn Fain said the working class in this country is facing a war – “a class war”. That is unusual coming from a president of a union in this...
In recent weeks, there have been growing calls for President Biden to drop out of the presidential election. His performance at the debate, as well as in recent press conferences, have shown noticeable decline in his mental and physical capacities. He regularly...
On June 14, 2024, Reuters published an exposé showing that the Pentagon under both Presidents Trump and Biden ran a secret anti-vax campaign across Asia in order to sow doubt about China’s Sinovac vaccination. The majority of their efforts were put into the...