The data on excess deaths is provided to make the point that while the pandemic is a calamity, for much of the U.S., it is just one more in a long series of calamities

Beginning in the 1970s, the American political class made decisions at the behest of business interests and oligarchs to restructure the U.S. economy in ways intended to shift the balance of political and economic power towards capital

Raising the minimum wage is critical because it would raise the living standards of the working poor. But it should be a starting move toward economic democracy, not the end of it

Source: Counterpunch Consternation over the Democrat’s narrow electoral victory, regaining the White House while apparently failing to capture the Senate, and losing…

If blame can be placed with an errant leader rather than serial crises of capitalism, then changing leaders means they can keep capitalism

The ignorant brutality of this system appears to be on its way to getting a reality check through a tiny virus

The question isn’t: can we elect someone to enact the political programs to fix what ails us? The question is: how do we redistribute political power to make such reorganization possible?

Given the nature of neoliberal recessions, the U.S. is but one recession away from wholesale economic and political rebellion. And that recession is on the way. The value of left analysis is that it opens the range of political possibilities

A very large chasm exists between those in power, including most of the 2020 presidential candidates, and environmentalists and scientists intent on acting now to resolve growing environmental crises

The neoliberal revolution that has been underway since the mid-1970s fundamentally reoriented American governance toward the interests of capital. While the distance…