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The American Eagle Has Claws
What is it like in the warehouse? The mood is somber and depressed. We joke daily about suicide: “Maybe I’ll jump off the Mod.”
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North Carolina Supreme Court Crushes Democratic Voting Rights
The left-fascists still cling to a form of bourgeois democracy, but increasingly the right-fascists have determined that even the shreds of participation in government that have been won over the past century and a half are too dangerous to the ruling class. This is a naked, undisguised attack on democratic participation in government.
Budget Rally Exposes the Bankruptcy of Connecticut Capitalist Politics
Speakers from teachers’ unions, faith organizations, and care-workers’ unions took the podium to air their frustrations with a government that refuses to hear the cries of a suffering public.
Washington, D.C.: Police Lieutenant Charged with Aiding “Proud Boys” Terrorists in 2021 Assault on Capitol Hill
A lieutenant of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department has been charged with multiple counts, under federal and municipal law, of obstructing justice, perjury, and leaking classified police information. The charges all relate to Lt. Shane Lammond’s longstanding acquaintanceship and collaboration with Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, a fascist civilian paramilitary militia.
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 […]
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.