Child labor is back. That’s because rich corporations and their political parasites want it back. What better way, they doubtless imagine, for…
Eve Ottenberg
The search across the globe and in history for egalitarian societies turns up some strange finds. One anthropologist, the well-known, radical, recently…
Climate change — caused primarily by capitalism’s incessant burning of fossil fuels — is happening faster than even the most pessimistic scientists…
The Zapatista revolution has survived in Chiapas, southern Mexico, since 1914, and that is a miracle. Zapatistas endured the assaults of government…
It’s been a good year for labor organizing at Starbucks
Wild-eyed speculation about the Kremlin’s intentions has so far run aground on Russia’s apparent reluctance to engage in a shooting war that could spiral into a full-on nuclear holocaust
There’s only one answer to labor scarcity: pay higher wages. Or don’t – and watch neoliberal capitalism crumble
Workers in the U.S. faced a lousy choice at the height of the pandemic – starve or get sick and possibly die. Workers in China would rightly consider this barbaric. And so would their leaders
Over 2 million homeowners are behind on their mortgage payments
This naked attempt to force people back to work for miserable pay brings to mind nineteenth century workhouses, where luckless folk moiled for pennies