The Vanishing Workers of Florida
U.S. capitalism is rotting. We can smell the decay on the air. We can see it in the stale and joyless advertisements, the collapse of banks bidding heavily on speculative […]
Current Events
Governor’s Symbolic Veto of North Carolina Abortion Ban Merely Buys Time
In North Carolina, the veto-proof supermajority of GOP lawmakers sent their Senate Bill 20 — an outright bar on abortions after 12 weeks and a ban on medication-induced abortions after 10 weeks — to the desk of their governor, Democrat Roy Cooper.
The Murder of Jordan Neely: White Deputization and “Frontier Justice”
The fear that those redlined into crumbling apartment blocks, thrown into prisons and jails without remorse or pretense of justice, deprived of legitimate economic opportunities, shunted into under-funded schools, and driven into the lowest, most menial ranks of the U.S. workforce — might dare to rise up against those people who put them there.
Lamont to Connecticut Workers: You’re On Your Own
How are working people expected to “stay home when sick” when they can barely afford to put food on the table as it is?
Jury Finds Arch-Reactionary Trump Liable for Abuse, Defamation
A federal jury returned a verdict of liable for the arch-reactionary Donald Trump. This verdict comes even as the right-fascist Trump machine gears up for the 2024 imperial elections.
Enemy of the People: Jim Walton
Jim, like all his siblings, and like his father before him, is steeped in blood and cloaked in the stolen hours of his 2.1 million Walmart retail associates. If he steals just half an hour from each of his workers each day on top of the normal capitalist exploitation, he is taking one million, fifty thousand hours. That is 114 years stolen every day. Lives that will never be returned. Hours that he cannot even enjoy. All used to increase his power and deepen the exploitation he commands.
Blame the Bosses!
It’s the bosses who deprive us. Their avarice drives them to extract as much profit as possible from every drop of sweat off the workers’ brow. They squeeze the working class on both ends: production and consumption.
Eric Adams Taunts New Yorkers Amid City-Wide Budget Cuts, Demos Drones Bought with Stolen Funds in Times Square
The NYPD purchased two of the drones, these “Digidogs”, for $739,000 using funds outside the official city budget through a program that incentivizes the NYPD to seize cash and other property from the community to be used for their own purposes.
A Lynching in New York City: White Supremacist Vigilante Murders Homeless Black Man on Subway — with NYPD Endorsement
Another Black person is dead — and, at least for the present, his white murderer has walked free, under the blue aegis of the U.S. Empire’s colonialist police.
One Portland Cop is One Too Many
The impetus behind the “mass exodus” is unclear, but various news outlets attribute it to around 50 cops suddenly retiring following the 2020 June Uprisings. The police have done nothing for the people of Portland other than intimidate and terrorize. Enough is enough!