Before the citation was written, the woman being harassed by a pawn of the state made it clear she was losing amniotic fluid, a sure sign that labor had begun, and a sure sign that she had to immediately go to the hospital. The uniformed pig was not interested in the fact that her husband had left to call an ambulance, and began attempting to detain her. In body-cam footage released later, Caleb Stewart is shown safe in his patrol car discrediting her story, stating that he “wasn’t seeing what she was saying.” Our “safety” is guaranteed by having such qualified airheads respond to any and all emergencies.

The situation outlined here is not unique, and it will happen again. In fact, the new genocidaires in charge have guaranteed that not only will human rights violations like this continue, but will surely increase as any semblance of an existing “welfare state” in Washington is dismantled and sold off to the highest bidders. As people are left in the dust by an already brutal system becoming even more so, more and more expecting mothers are being pushed to the street.

The horror here not only lies in the blatant disregard of human life for the sake of property, as evidenced here by this little boy in blue protecting a sidewalk from a woman having a medical emergency, but in the fact that women are being forced to live on the street while navigating a situation that is extraordinarily difficult to deal with even for those with the needed resources.  Countless studies have shown that birth, always dangerous and always painful, is an even more harrowing experience for homeless people.

The Republicans’ “pro-life” commitments do not apply to the expecting mother, and cease applying to the child as soon as it is born. No help will be given to the mother or child, assuming either survive the ordeal, and any health conditions brought on by the circumstances of houselessness will go untreated until it’s too late, driving up the cost of living as ICU visits are notoriously prohibitively expensive in the so-called “United States.”

Let’s be clear here, this did not happen out of nowhere, this was not an aberration, this wasn’t even a partisan issue. This was a crystal clear example of class warfare. This is the front line of the battle the capitalists wage against us every day, with those deemed not productive enough facing the most open forms of violence. As the Communist Manifesto so bluntly stated over a century ago: 

“The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”

This veil, torn away, has become a mask the capitalists can don and dispose of as necessary. To ensure an intrusive and dangerous condition such as pregnancy is suffered through, the capitalists clutch offended at the pearls of morality. However, should a newborn’s single bloody toe risk staining the capitalist’s true divine entity, property, the hammer of the state will smash you to bits.

The timing and location reveal another layer of evil to the crime. Cornelius was sleeping across the street from Ebenezer Baptist Church, the same place where Martin Luther King Jr. was once co-pastor with his father. This church hosts a highly attended memorial service every MLK day, along with other events covering several blocks around MLK’s childhood home. With the federal holiday just four days away, city officials called for the area to be purged of the visibly poor in preparation for the events. They desired to display a pristine picture of urban life in the Capitalist metropolis — removed of its racialized homelessness, as if Martin Luther King Jr.’s neighborhood were an exhibit at Disneyland. In a city where New Afrikans are 47% of the total residents, 86% of the homeless are Black. This racial disparity among the homeless is even more telling on the All-Empire level (13% versus. 36.6%). “Gentrification,” deployed as a mode of ethnic cleansing; a modern buzzword for the mass displacement grinding in the background of each and every victory of the white worker. 

Cornelius Taylor spent his last day on this Earth in a plastic tent on Old Wheat St in the King Historic District of Atlanta, just two blocks down from MLK’s childhood home. City workers arrived on January 16 in a frontloader with a metal bucket attachment, accompanied by Atlanta police officers. Neither worker nor pig bothered to check the tents; this was out of sheer laziness, yes, but also the active, ingrained dehumanization of people who cannot afford an apartment. We know what happened next because of the medical examiner’s report, which attributes Mr. Taylor’s cause of death to “blunt force trauma to the pelvis and abdomen.” The bastards ran him over with the state machine, essentially crushing his body in two. The tent, pavement, and other debris were soaked in Cornelius’ blood. 

And the pigs who stood guard as Mr. Taylor was crushed? They have already tried to cover up their active role by submitting an incident report that implied Mr. Taylor died of a drug overdose, rather than the tons of force that had spilled the blood from his body. 

The report of lies describes another homeless man waving the officer down to point them to what had just happened. The cop pulls Mr. Taylor’s paralyzed body out of the collapsed tent, but didn’t notice (read: chose not to report) the unconscionable injuries to his abdomen and torso, nor the pools of blood seen by all the other witnesses. All they included in the report was a “nose bleed” and “foam emitting” from Mr. Taylor’s mouth; that an “overdose” was suspected. Let us now dispel any possible lingering notions of good-faith in this report. It is a blatant lie; meant to muddy the waters, create doubt of the obvious, and most of all, shift blame away from the pig and onto the victim. Police think they can literally sweep Cornelius Taylor under the rug if they just assassinate his character as a “drug addict,” another maligned group that the pigs see as undeserving of shelter or life. In what can only be understood as an admission of guilt, police continue to delay release of the body cam footage in the “ongoing investigation.” This is nothing new. Body cams which support a pig’s claim get released immediately; those which contradict their lies are held in purgatory to quell the public’s outrage. 

A service was held on February 3 for Mr. Taylor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the same church where honorary services were held for Martin Luther King Jr. the week before. After the service, family members and activists led a silent march to city hall. They are demanding an end to encampment sweeps… 

But a demand like this will do nothing to alleviate the daily state-enforced torture of the homeless. Just hours after the funeral, the Atlanta city council voted to change the methods used to carry out homeless displacements. They voted to stop using heavy equipment in their raids, as well as to bring back another useless “task force” on homelessness. It is now up to the mayor to ratify or veto the changes. No, begging the state for change will not stop the displacements, even if they are carried out with a shinier boot. It is a mistake to make preemptive concessions to the killers, it is a mistake to limit this movement by demanding mercy from the oppressor and their infantry of goons. Like bartering a sale in a market, the seller shouldn’t start from a price that’s lower than what they want. 

Others in the city already understand this, if we are to believe anonymous sources who claim to have returned to the scene of the crime in the early morning of January 30. According to these sources, the frontloader was incinerated; a spontaneous outcry of people who want to start from the opposite of concessions. 

The demand to stop encampment sweeps is a far cry from the vision of Martin Luther King Jr; a man who was assassinated for his efforts to upend the deep antagonists of capital and its tentacles of destruction squeezing the life out of Black and other oppressed communities. The night before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech titled I’ve Been to the Mountaintop to New Afrikan sanitation workers on strike in Memphis, Tennessee. These workers were striking for better working conditions after a malfunctioning truck crushed two fellow workers to death, like Cornelius Taylor. King told them, “We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis.” 

But tragedy did follow. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered the very next day; 60 years later, their monopoly on violence causes the same “tragic accidents” which impoverish, brutalize, and crush New Afrikans beneath the state. 

Martin Luther King Jr’s name was slandered by the state his entire career before modern attempts have tried to rob his legacy of all its anti-capitalist beliefs. They strangled George Floyd under a pig’s knee and blamed his death on an overdose. They mutilated Cornelius Taylor in a violent attack against the Black and homeless, before pushing that same tired lie. There is no reforming a system that operates on New Afrikan death. We will live and die in these conditions, or we will live and die winning our shared liberation.

Cornelius Taylor. Say his name!

If the argument in Relentless and Loper are any indication, the center-leaning minority of three justices on the court stand no chance of carrying even a single decision in the year to come. As Butcher Biden continues to unleash hell on the people of Palestine and his government at home breaks the backs of unions, enforces cruel debt recovery schemes, and fails to achieve major policy objectives, he and his rickety coalition are under attack from even farther right enemies within the ruling class. Going into the 2024 election year, we should expect this assault to grow in strength as the ruling class continues its consolidation around the farthest right reactionaries in government and abandons its pretensions to centrism.

What do these cases mean?

Relentless and Loper: Ending the Last Vestiges of the New Deal

The regulatory state is a term that describes the expansion of the U.S. government by the New Deal progressives. The U.S. federal regulatory agencies — the National Labor Relations Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve System, the Environmental Protection Agency, etc. — are the result of this expansion of government. As you can see from the short list, many of these agencies were conjured into being by the Roosevelt progressives in order to “tame” the “excesses” of capitalism. The Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are designed to manage banking and money-flow and prevent enormous capitalist crises like the Great Depression. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is designed to ease the conflict between labor and capital and act as a mediator between them.

These agencies were created to avert a revolution during the Great Depression. They were the conscious design of a cartel of “progressive” capitalists who had chosen to forgo immediate profits in order to adjust the long-term stability of the capitalist state. The unregulated markets that produced the Great Depression were supposed to be tamed, the rampant class warfare practiced by corporations (who had, until the late 1930s, frequently resorted to openly hiring mercenaries to break strikes by killing strikers) was meant to be brought under control. At the same time, this plan of progressive New Deal politics had, beginning in the early 1930s, reinvigorated the dead Democratic Party and created an unholy coalition of labor leaders, Black voters who were steadily being alienated by the realignment of the Republican Party, and social liberals by redistributing some of the profits of the capitalist class back to the suffering working class.

Obviously, that coalition has broken down. The New Dealers are dead. The extra profits have been clawed back. The agencies no longer provide much benefit to the working class, other than a tangle of regulations that capitalists see as intruding on their rightful domain. Do businesses want to be told that they have to comply with environmental regulations? No. Do they want the NLRB breathing down their neck if they crush a union drive with a little too much vigor? No.

The far-right wing of the reactionary ruling class has forgotten or doesn’t care about the systemic danger of removing the regulatory agencies. They see their rate of profit declining and are pushing to increase it. There are only a few ways this can happen, namely through warfare with foreign countries and the expansion of a colonial or neo-colonial empire, or through the immiseration of the U.S. working class at home. They long for a return to the 1890-1936 period of U.S. capitalism, before regulation and codified labor rights, when striking was a crime punishable by death.

If the court rules in favor of the corporations in Relentless and Loper, it will be the first step on the road to dismantling the federal regulatory state. Federal agencies are created by U.S. Congressional laws. Both of these cases represent an attack on the court’s deference to regulatory agencies reading of their own statutes and will invite the Supreme Court to peer into how the agencies regulate and control the areas they have been assigned authority. More important than this arcane legal question (which will dismantle fifty years of precedent and allow the court to intervene in any ongoing question before a federal agency) is that this will signal to the court’s far-right fascist allies that the time has come to bring a challenge questioning whether the federal agencies can exist at all.

The question in Loper is whether the Department of Commerce can require fishing boats to pay for the federal observers required by a certain law; the lower courts followed what is known as Chevron deference, stating that an agency can read its own statutes expansively, and the court grants deference to that reading. The same question is presented in Relentless.

In two years, the court could strike down and basically dissolve all executive regulatory bodies. In a stroke, this would deregulate all markets, end all labor rights, and open the doors for a full fascist reaction on every political front.

Fischer: Rehabilitating Far-Right Paramilitaries

The Fischer case is about the constitutionality of a charge brought against the January 6 putschists. Joseph Fischer, along with many of the other putschists, were charged with obstructing a congressional proceeding, a felony with a penalty of up to five years incarceration. This charge, a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1505, is the core of many of the prosecutions against the January 6 defendants. Fischer’s lawyers — and potentially the Supreme Court — argue that the law doesn’t apply, because the “obstruction” was intended to refer to interfering with an ongoing investigation, not physically occupying the capitol.

If the court rules in favor of Fischer, we can expect the already lackluster prosecutions of the January 6 putschists to begin to fall apart. Those who have already been sentenced will likely seek redress, and those who are awaiting sentencing or trial will make hay from such a ruling.

But that’s what it would be designed to do. By weakening this law, which will never be used against, for instance, poor or working-class defendants, the Supreme Court would thereby grant its blessing to the far-right putsch. We must understand this for what it is: unlike the hysterics by the Biden camp surrounding January 6, we cannot classify this as a “failed” coup; this was a putsch exercise that was never intended to make it as far as it did. This trial run was so remarkably successful that the leadership had no idea how to turn around and transform that success on the ground into political action.

Next time, they will.

Starbucks v. McKinney: Weakening the Unions

The McKinney case was brought before the Supreme Court by the bottomless legal fund of the Starbucks Corporation. In 2022, Starbucks fired seven employees in a Memphis, Tennessee store for attempting to unionize. Those workers filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (which is under threat from Relentless and Loper as discussed above). The NLRB asked the U.S. District Court in Tennessee to grant an injunction requiring Starbucks to rehire those employees, and it did.

The Starbucks Corporation says that the District Court shouldn’t have granted that injunction, and that the way the NLRB gets injunctions is wrong. This more lenient test that the courts grant to the NLRB is part of the National Labor Relations Act, the law which created it. Starbucks and its lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to attack a core part of the National Labor Relations Act and strike at the NLRB’s power to compel corporations to behave in accordance with the law.

The growth of union drives and the expansion of the power of labor within the last three years has spooked the corporate owners of the U.S. ruling class. McKinney is part of the two-pronged attack by these interests on the rights won by the struggles of working people in the United States over the past century. Unlike the broader assaults of Relentless and Loper, McKinney is a direct blow aimed at weakening unions and their legal powers.

Should the Supreme Court grant the relief requested in Relentless and McKinney, it will only be a matter of time before the National Labor Relations Act is completely nullified.

Grants Pass: Killing the Poor Outright

The footsoldiers of American fascism are the local organizations of white supremacy. At the most granular level, they are represented by homeowner’s associations. The city government sits at a  level above the dreaded HOA, but still holds very local power. In Grants Pass, the power of the city government to criminalize homelessness is up for review. Critically, the currently controlling decision in Oregon is the Ninth Circuit decision of Martin v. Boise, which prohibits governments in the nine Western states under that court — including California — from punishing homeless people for sleeping outside when cities don’t have sufficient space in their shelters.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (another executive federal agency) announced that more than 650,000 people were houseless in January of 2023, a 12% increase since 2022. Over a third of the nation’s unhoused population was in Washington, California, and Oregon, which each had more than 20,000 unhoused people at the time of the count. We know homelessness will be on the rise as the tidal wave of evictions follows the lifting of the rent moratoriums and renter’s assistance that ended when the government declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The court is being asked to prepare for the murder, arrest, and criminalization of tens or hundreds of thousands of unhoused people. This wave of evictions has been foreseen; the ruling class is aware that it will cause social unrest, anger, resentment, and prove the failures of the capitalist system. What are they doing to get ready for it? They’re training more cops in urban warfare and counterinsurgency, and they’re asking the Supreme Court to permit cities (and states) to proclaim unhoused people to be outlaws, subject to arbitrary search, seizure, and arrest.

A Dark Road Ahead

There is no doubt that these are grim tidings. The ruling class is eating itself alive, an ouroboros of recrimination and fascism, as it seeks some way to bring stability to the failing U.S. empire. It is critical for the advanced masses to be prepared; to foresee the acts of the ruling class; to prepare for them. Even if mass organization and direct action fails to prevent the Supreme Court from acting on each of these cases — even in the worst case where each passes into law — we must be prepared to mitigate the consequences and to organize those who will undoubtedly be thrown out of work, out of their homes, and abandoned to die in the streets by the uncaring machinery of profit.Forewarned is forearmed. And we must go armed.

Of the crisis, Mark said:

Friends of New Haven,

Tomorrow (Wednesday, 3/15/23), Mayor Elicker is planning to double down on the deepening human rights emergency for economic refugees in our city, over which he presides without conscience or responsibility. He has ordered the forcible removal of our neighbors from the tent city on E.T. Grasso Boulevard, which has been their home for the past three years. He has provided no alternative for these neighbors except to “apply” for help in getting housed. This comes after the city has neglected to provide any essential services there- not even regular trash removal!- and while the agencies involved in service delivery to our homeless neighbors continue to routinely send people there for help because they have no place else to send them…. CITY LAWS WHICH DENY THE RIGHT OF OUR ECONOMIC REFUGEE NEIGHBORS TO TAKE REFUGE TOGETHER ON PUBLIC LAND ARE A DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE U.N. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

Elicker is the hand-picked mayor of the Democratic regime, plucked from his position as an independent to run against old-Democrat and Working Party candidate, former mayor Toni Harp. Upon his victory in the Democratic primary of 2019, Elicker said “People want the establishment politicians that have been in office for decades to step aside and make space for leadership that brings new ideas and new energy.”

Since that 2019 election, Elicker’s ideas have been the same old ideas. His leadership has been the same old leadership: the leadership of Yale and New Haven capital, its iron fist tightening. Under Elicker’s watch, Randy Cox was thrown, unbuckled, in the back of a police van like Freddy Gray, and paralyzed by the New Haven police: the enforcement arm of Elicker’s regime.

During the pandemic, most services for the unhoused were shut down. Wait lists for shelters on the state’s 2-1-1 phone line run to months. Soup kitchens and shelters have been closed. Now, Elicker strikes out as the representative of New Haven’s capitalists by unleashing New Haven’s vicious police on the encampment at Ella Grasso Boulevard. In fact, Elicker has been building up to this final stroke for two years. His health inspectors have harassed the unhoused community and threatened time and again to sweep the area. Using a tried-and-true capitalist tactic, Elicker outlasted organizers and activists and wore down the resistance and empathy of the local housed community with repeated warnings and near-sweeps.

Finally, earlier this month, Elicker made his move. After cordoning the press off and away from the sweep where they couldn’t ask any questions, Elicker gave a statement indicating that he was working to “arrange travel out of state” for the unhoused people.

Meanwhile, Mandy Management continues to crank up the rents in New Haven – some tenants have seen increases of as much as $550 a month. Evictions are soaring and the property speculators that have “invested” record amounts of money in New Haven properties so they can gentrify, expel tenants, and increase rents have gone unchecked. This is the first of many blows dealt by Elicker and the Democratic machine of New Haven in 2023; it will not be the last.How long before the Bridgeport “eviction tsunami” breaks over New Haven with Justin Elicker’s willing collaboration?

As Marxists warned last year and the year before that, the crisis in the housing market, so long suppressed by the last-ditch stabilizing measures  of the U.S. government, has finally broken out into the open. The contradiction was unsustainable: the working classes have been deprived of their income by death, disease, and economic manipulation, and are now being forced to pay back rent that the government suspended — rent that they can’t afford. Now that this larcenous manipulation — the issuing of what are essentially interest-free loans to banks and investors, billed in the presses as “relief” — has increased the cost of staple goods and threatens hyper-inflation, the political lackeys of the U.S. real estate capitalists are preparing to give the economy a strong dose of “shock therapy.” The real costs of the so-called “relief” are becoming more and more apparent.

In Connecticut alone, hundreds of working class families have been thrown onto the streets. A smoldering fire of evictions threatens to explode into a full-blown conflagration of houselessness far beyond the capacity of the meager resources allotted by the capitalist state to combat it.

This particular housing crisis was created by the COVID pandemic and the bungled half-measures taken by the government in response. Even as investors line their pockets, the working people sink deeper into misery. This stop-and-start “protection” has merely given the illusion of safety while allowing the capitalists to plunder the public coffers and leave growing numbers unhoused, food-insecure, and unemployed.

“I haven’t seen this in my 20 years working in Connecticut,” said David Rich of the Housing Collective in Fairfield County. Housing advocates are calling it the “perfect storm” for the working classes. The state reports a shortfall of more than 85,000 units of rental housing. As of late August 2022, only about 2% of the state’s rental units were available, which gives Connecticut the lowest vacancy rate in the U.S. Empire.

“The people who are coming into the shelter now were housed and [lost housing] either through evictions or being priced out of their housing,” said Michele Conderino of the Open Doors Community.

ACT CT, a bourgeois NGO operating in Connecticut to “address the root causes of poverty, addiction, and health,” released a report on the state of houselessness in Connecticut from data gathered on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. They identified 2,930 people who were unhoused in Connecticut on that date. Last year the same report identified 2,594 houseless persons. The very first wave of the crisis has seen an increase in houselessness by 13%, which is a reversal of a decade of decreases.

And it’s not only that there is insufficient shelter for rent — the protections for tenants introduced at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have since been lifted and evictions are now being processed at an increasing pace. Those protections were still in place in January of this year, when the study was conducted, but in March there was a 70% increase in eviction filings — from an average of 1,469 each March to 2,490 in March of this year. The effects of this dramatic increase have not yet been seen.

What’s more, landlords have taken this crisis as an opportunity to drive rents up. Average rents across Connecticut are up 12% over the last 18 months and are projected  to continue rising.

Inflation caused by the capitalist printing of “free money” to the banks throughout 2020, 2021, and early 2022 has pushed many working class families already on the brink of poverty over the edge. Compounded with the lifting of eviction protection and the predatory housing purchases by huge investment firms like BlackRock, Mandy Properties, and Farnam Realty, the capitalists appear to be conspiring to drive working class people out of their homes.

There’s no sign this crisis will let up any time soon. In fact, every law of capitalist development points firmly to its intensification as the investment markets suffer contractions and the U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws its offerings of what was essentially, until now, free credit to the banks and investors. All this adds up to a worsening crisis for working class families in Connecticut and across the U.S. Empire. 

Houses and apartments are “withdrawn” from the market for a “more profitable” resale or investment. There are 700,000 unoccupied units of housing in Connecticut. The owners of these properties refuse to rent them, for the selfish reason that they can make more money by waiting and using their real estate holding sas passive investments to sell as they “appreciate” in value than they can by renting them. In other words, under capitalism, housing is often more profitable when it isn’t actually used for housing. These landlords buy up all the property, wait for desperation and misery to increase, and then sell them at huge profits.

But why is all this happening? The greed of a few is the dispossession of many.

Let’s step back to the beginning of the COVID pandemic: To save the lives of millions, measures were implemented to keep many from going to work. Clumsy half-measures at alleviating pandemic-induced poverty were adopted by the government. But the government’s policies weren’t stringent enough to burn out the disease (unlike the zero-COVID plan in China) and weren’t liberal enough to keep the markets functioning.

While “essential” industries (from food processing to restaurants) were kept open and the workers there were subject to sickness and death, other workers, especially the labor aristocrats and petit-bourgeoisie, were protected under stay-at-home orders. COVID-19 was permitted to rage among the poorest strata of the laboring classes, resulting in government-sanctioned social mass murder.

But, for the capitalist economy to function, for money to circulate, for stocks to stay high, for banks to remain solvent, eventually even those labor aristocrats and petit-bourgeoisie had to go back to work. To support capital during the initial period, the Federal Reserve began issuing what were essentially interest-free loans to banks and investors. Then, under immense pressure from their capitalist masters, the government declared the pandemic was “over” and forced everyone back to work by removing all the protections it had extended: rent and eviction protection, mandatory or free COVID tests, free vaccinations and boosters, school closures, work closures.

The capitalists and their lackeys in government have the tools to alleviate the misery they’re creating. The unhoused merely have to seize this property or have it ordered available by the government; that this is unthinkable speaks to the power of the bourgeoisie to command not only the police force, but the very halls of government.

The pandemic has not ended. The capitalist government did not provide long-term solutions for anything. Neither the disease, which continues to ravage and kill, nor the economic problems, which were shifted from the ruling class onto the working classes, have been addressed. We shouldn’t be surprised by any of this.

The government has worked tirelessly to do what is best for the capitalists. When the capitalists were afraid they might be infected, a limited amount of protections were put in place. After they’d had enough time to develop suitable defenses, like monoclonal antibodies or increased security and temperature screening in their walled gardens, they told everyone “Hey! Get back to work! And by the way, you still owe me a year’s rent.”

This is a stark example of the contradictions at the heart of the capitalist system. The government, composed of the representatives not of the renters, but the landowning classes, can’t order the forgiveness of the overdue rents (doing so is actually constitutionally forbidden, because that would be considered a “taking”), nor can it afford to pay those overdue rents itself.

Where are public funds being spent? Not on the unhoused, those with marginal housing, or those working people being forced out of their longtime homes. Rather, the State of Connecticut just held a lavish state funeral for two Bristol police officers, costing tens of thousands of dollars, diverting millions in state resources, and drawing tens of thousands of fascist fellow-officers and fascist cop supporters from across the country. Indeed, every city in Connecticut is increasing funding for the police across the board.

Thousands of evictions are expected each month going forward. The dreaded “cliff” is still ahead of us: the sharp and sudden explosion of litigation and summary process that will drive thousands of working-poor people onto the streets across the U.S. Empire.

With this crisis now coming to a long-anticipated head, the subterranean contradictions of capitalism, its sometimes-hidden brutality, stands revealed and unveiled for all to see. In response, tenants unions are springing up across the state, but this will not alone stem the tide. Only a united coalition  of unhoused councils, unemployed committees, and housing justice activists, led by a strong Communist movement, can bring the capitalists to heel and force them to concede ground.