News about and analysis of the U.S. Empire’s rampant houselessness, the struggles of unhoused communities, and the ongoing cost of living crisis.
Cornelius Taylor: Say His Name!
Cornelius Taylor. Say his name!
Poverty
A Better Future Is Worth Building for NYC’s 146,000+ Homeless Kids
A better world is possible, and we need not speculate how situations such as the one in NYC and the U.S. more broadly can not only be alleviated, but anticipated and avoided entirely.
The Violence Is Never Isolated
Forest Park Deputy Police Chief Christopher Chin referred to Labor Day’s quadruple homicide as an “isolated incident.” There is nothing isolated about violence and dehumanization of unsheltered people.
Police Terrorism and Urban Settler Colonialism Carve Up Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine
Who is defining what ‘crime’ is? How is a church providing for the hungry viewed as “attracting” crime? Why is a child going hungry, in itself, not viewed as a crime when it’s perpetuated by our own government? The answer is that spikes in “crime” are nothing more than code for a rise in poverty and state repression.
Detaining Migrants to Depress Wages
Immigration doesn’t just affect migrants – their struggle impacts the entire working class. Cde. Rabbit explains how immigration is tied to wages, and the awful conditions migrants face.
Landlords: Deprivers, not Providers, of Housing
Cde. Rabbit explores how parasitic landlords in New York City took advantage of rent stabilization to profit at the people’s expense.
Tourism: Exploitation by Another Name
Cde. Rabbit examines how Taos County, New Mexico’s Tourist industry is profitable due to the exploitation of local residents.
The U.S. State Used COVID to Bilk the Working Class
Between the U.S. government, the monopolists, and the petty business tyrants, we are being attacked, stolen from, and degraded from every side.
France and the Second Revolution
On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, French police in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, murdered Naël Merzouk, a 17-year-old boy of Algerian-Moroccan descent, in cold blood.
Capitalists Gorge Themselves on the Fruits of Child Labor
Child labor persists both in the brutal exploitation in modern colonies, where children labor for little or no pay to produce chocolate and cobalt, as well as within the great imperialist countries themselves.