A prophetic editorial written before Donald Trump caved after flight attendants and other aviation workers refused to show up to work.
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French Yellow Vest protests spread
The massive protest that is boiling over into other countries needs anti-capitalist politics to fulfill its promise.
Renewed attacks on Social Security: scare tactics and shell games
The government and politicians are lying about “insufficient” funds. Actually, there is enough money to fully fund checks through 2034 and to pay 79 percent of payments through 2095, UNLESS they manage to steal it from Social Security.
Door slams on rent control
Why Prop. 10 failed in California
Poverty by design
Why worker’s paychecks can’t pay the bills — in the richest country in the world.
VIDEO: How much money have humans created?
Notable for its mind-boggling facts about the existence of staggering amounts of what Marx called “fictitious capital.”
Trump’s NAFTA publicity stunt
While endlessly covering Trump’s false NAFTA-supplanting deal with Mexico at the end of August, the U.S. press avoided reporting on how very bad any free trade agreement is for the working class.
Big business 1, homeless 0
Amazon led the crusade to kill a progressive “head tax” in Seattle, designed to alleviate the city’s homeless crisis.
Low unemployment does not cause recession
Some economists want us to believe that high unemployment is better for the economy!
HUD refuses to desegregate housing
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson calls rules against racist segregation a “failed socialist experiment.”
Events
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