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 […]
North America
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.
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!
Press Release: Wrongfully Accused and Exonerated University Employee Launches American Justice Project to Expose and Rectify Inequities in the Justice System
The American Justice Project (AJP), a newly launched nonprofit, vows to disrupt abuses of power that have stolen the lives and liberty of so many already marginalized people and people from low income backgrounds.
Revolutionary History: The Haymarket Massacre and the Origins of May Day
Eight men — socialist and anarchist leaders — stood accused. The trial, Illinois v. Spies et al., started on June 21, 1886, and went on until August 11. The judge was openly hostile to the defendants. No union members or anyone with socialist sympathies was permitted to be seated on the jury. The jury returned eight guilty verdicts. The judge sentenced all but one man to be hanged.