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Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies
The pandemic showed that localized economies are better equipped to respond to the needs of their communities.
Capitalism Is to Blame for How Quickly US COVID Deaths Reached 1 Million
The idea of obeying science when it might cost multibillion-dollar corporations their market share was heresy.
As Over a Million Have Died of COVID, US Billionaires Have Gained $1.7 Trillion
The $1.71 trillion wealth gain alone could pay off nearly the entirety of student loans owed by the public.
On May Day, Let’s Make Bold Demands for Democracy at Work and in the Streets
People in Los Angeles are launching a “municipalist movement” on May 1 with the aim of democratizing U.S. cities.
Global Capitalism Has Become Dependent on War-Making to Sustain Itself
The Ukraine crisis is not the cause but a consequence of the general crisis of global capitalism.
Corrupt Contractors in US Hogged Pandemic Relief and Delivered Unusable Goods
Many contracts to acquire critical supplies were wrapped up in unprecedented fraud schemes.
Higher Education Is Now a Battlefield Between Workers and Corporatization
"Power Despite Precarity" offers a case study of how educators in the California State University system built power.
Sanctions Against Wealthy Russians Are Largely Symbolic and Won’t End the War
Yet Biden is widely expected to announce a new round of sanctions, along with a tightening of the current ones.
We Need an Economy Without Bosses and Managers. Participatory Economics Is How.
Author Michael Albert describes what a post-capitalist economy where workers run productive facilities could look like.
Our Best Weapon Against Soaring Gas Prices Is Dramatic Climate Action
To confront the climate crisis, we have to break capitalism's rules.