By Dr. Jack Rasmus This past Friday, May 8, the US Labor Dept. released its latest jobless figures. The official report was 20 million more unemployed and an unemployment rate of 14.7%. Both mainstream and progressive […]
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay “I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression, and I can remember one bleak night in the Thirties when my father learned […]
by BRAD EVANS “To create an event is thus to reject whatever is now nothing more than a ‘thirdworlding of human societies’, representing a shift from the EXOCOLONISATION of erstwhile empires to the ENDOCOLONISATION of the […]
“This is what [it’s] like to be an immigrant under Trump.” byJulia Conley, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos unveiled new guidance Tuesday which excludes undocumented students from receiving emergncy assistance through a new $6 billion program […]
Lack of access to healthcare, domestic life, education, increased presence online, are among the areas in which children could possibly be harmed. Millions of children worldwide are being vulnerable to countless threats due to the lockdowns arising from […]
Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto. Party statement One hundred and thirty years have passed since the international working class began demonstrating around the world to honour the Chicago martyrs and reaffirm their rights […]
A new report states 265 million people could face food insecurity by the end of 2020, up from 130 million last year. byJulia Conley, Soacha’s Mayor Juan Carlos Saldarriaga, delivers food to the community during […]
A family wearing face mask to protect of the coronavirus go for a walk at Carlos III promenade, in Pamplona, northern Spain. On Sunday, children under 14 years old will be allowed to take walks […]
by DEAN BAKER With the economy going into a shutdown mode for at least month, and possibly quite a bit longer, we’re again hearing the cries from elite economics columnists about a Second Great Depression. These […]
by DEAN BAKER Most sectors took a big hit in employment, most concerning is a loss of 42,500 jobs in health care. The impact of the coronavirus shutdowns showed up very clearly in the March data […]