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Activists Are Challenging Laws That Enable Vulture Funds to Exploit Global South
Vulture funds target financially distressed areas like Puerto Rico. Independence organizers are pushing back.
Ending a Global Pandemic Should Not Rely on “Individual Responsibility”
CEOs continue to make million-dollar salaries while workers are underpaid and left working in precarious situations.
Businesses Have Manufactured Inflation Fear to Protect Profits Amid Rising Wages
Workers don’t set prices, bosses do. And they do so on the basis of maintaining the greatest possible profit margins.
My Daughter Was Exposed to COVID. Thank Goodness She Was Vaccinated.
Everyone deserves to know what it’s like to be able to worry just a little bit less because they are vaccinated.
Capitalism Must Not Dictate Our Response to Omicron Variant
In the face of the virus's new iteration, we must prioritize saving lives.
Workers Deserved Bernie’s Build Back Better, But They’ll Likely Get Manchin’s
The obstacle to the working class achieving real gains is neoliberal ideas that distort the reality of workers' lives.
We Work Too Damn Much. Let’s Demand a 4-Day Workweek by 2022.
A four-day workweek would make time to rebalance our lives and also create space for collective action to thrive.
The COVID Supply Chain Breakdown Can Be Traced to Capitalist Globalization
Given the underlying structural crisis of global capitalism, worldwide economic turbulence is here to stay.
From Burnout to Breakthroughs, Weary Organizers Can Come Back Stronger
How can we build our way back from pandemic exhaustion?
Chomsky, Pollin and Lapavitsas: Are We Witnessing the Demise of Neoliberalism?
COVID has forced dramatic shifts. Is a new variant of capitalism emerging, or is neoliberalism just re-entrenching?