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No Country on Earth Fully Respects Workers’ Rights, and it’s Getting Worse

Class warfare continues to be waged incessantly. And that war’s offensives continue to be more intense. In just the past year, the world’s working...

17.07.2026 10

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Delaware Says Corporations Really are People

When he ran for president in 2012, Mitt Romney famously declared that corporations are people. What brought laughter then has begun to be reality...

16.06.2026 20

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Alternative Climate Summit Seeks More Action on Global Warming

The annual climate summits attended by government officials and fossil fuel representatives have long been a farce. Lots of talking, followed by vows...

17.05.2026 30

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What We do in the Election Booth is Not the Same as Activism

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07.03.2026 30

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We Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Understanding Slavery

At the same time as slavery came to an end in the British Empire, still harsher restrictions on working people were promulgated. That was not a...

28.12.2025 40

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COP30: Self-Congratulations and Promises to Talk More are No Substitute for Action

Another climate summit has mercifully ended. As with past summits, nothing of substance happened. The United States did not participate, meaning that...

06.12.2025 30

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Sanctions Are Not Only Not an Alternative to War, They are More Deadly

Increasingly, the United States and the European Union leverage their dominance in the world capitalist system to impose sanctions on other countries....

21.09.2025 50

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The True Unemployment Rate May be 25%

How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the...

27.07.2025 30

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The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory

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29.06.2025 40

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Oil and Capitalism: Perfect Together (But Not for Us)

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08.06.2025 40

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Precarious Workers are Employees Without Stability, Not “Entrepreneurs”

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04.05.2025 30

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