“The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction.” by: Andrea Germanos, The coronavirus crisis has brought “the machine of capitalism… to […]
This crisis has reinforced what we already know—our current economic system is leading us down a path of destruction. by: Claire O’Manique Fortunately, we have an alternative to this fossil-fuelled, neoliberal capitalist normal: the Green […]
“The only way to avoid executing an innocent person is to abolish the death penalty altogether.” by: Jessica Corbett, Walter Barton was executed by the state of Missouri on May 19, 2020 despite his persistent […]
“They Don’t Care for Our Lives”: McDonald’s Workers Strike Across US to Demand Better Protections From Covid-19 Organizers say scores of McDonalds workers have tested positive for Covid-19 in at least 16 states, but the […]
The research “underscores a simple truth,” says climate scientist Michael Mann. “Individual behavior alone …won’t get us there.” by: Jessica Corbett, Climate change activists from the group “No Going Back—another world is possible,” took part […]
by DAVE LINDORFF America’s cities are burning again. In Minneapolis, after an unarmed and unresisting George Floyd, 46 and black, was killed by a white cop after being arrested for the non-violent alleged crime of trying […]
by LEE HALL Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Last Friday, the leader of the entity that expects my pledge of allegiance threatened to shoot—specifically—looters. Before we go into what happened last night and Saturday morning and is […]
by HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: the United States Library of Congress – Public Domain The sheer brutality of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a viciously violent cop symbolizes not only the unadulterated racism of […]
by JOSHUA FRANK Photo: Ronnie Mendoza. Los Angeles, California The scene along Melrose Avenue, one of L.A’s most renowned shopping districts, is now one of vengeance. Shards of glass litter the sidewalk. Storefronts are graffitied. The […]
by JOSHUA FRANK In May of 1914 — 107 years ago this month — a small, yet vibrant socialist colony on the edge of Los Angeles County took root that is worth revisiting. In the Age […]