As if the health crisis itself was not bad enough, the powers-that-be will use it to advance privatization goals and an anti-working-class agenda.
Editorial
Mexican women strike over femicides
Following an International Women’s Day march, millions of women struck against the unchecked murders of sisters, mothers and daughters.
French workers: heroes of global resistance
The longest strike since 1968 is over, but the struggle to keep hard-won benefits is not.
Trump and U.S. business as usual in Iran
What is the U.S. president really up to?
Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years on
It wasn’t really about the “death of communism.” It was about the failure of Stalinism, to which capitalism has hardly been an answer to celebrate.
Hillary Clinton conjures up a new “red” threat
On the centennial of the Palmer Raids, Clinton is reviving commie baiting by calling Green Party leader a “Russian asset.” Warning to all lefties — beware of embedding with Democrats!
Take that, Amazon! Sawant wins again
Seattle voters said “Hell no!” to red-baiting billionaires, and defeated five of the seven Amazon-backed candidates for City Council! Up-front socialist Kshama Savant was especially targeted — and won.
Ensuring union integrity: from Australia, a working-class recipe that knows no borders
What’s needed is genuine collective trade union democracy.
Reproductive justice: It takes a global movement
Women’s bodies, women’s lives, women’s right to decide.
Harlan County miners say “no pay, we stay”
Unpaid for coal they produced, they’re blockading company trains.
