Capitalism

Children Deserve Dignified, Happy, Carefree Lives
Under this capitalist, racist, patriarchal system, children carry the heavy burdens of trauma. As workers and socialists, we must fight to ensure that they can live the dignified, happy, and carefree lives they deserve.
Allison Noel
May 29, 2022The Uvalde Massacre Is the Product of a Heinous System
Another deadly school shooting has claimed the lives of innocent school children and education workers. The small town of Uvalde, Texas, was the scene of the latest example of tragic barbarity as at least 18 elementary schoolers and two adults were murdered by an 18 year-old gunman who also died at the scene.
Ezra Brain
May 24, 2022The Baby Formula Shortage Is a Capitalist Crisis of Social Reproduction
The baby formula shortage is a consequence of capitalism and a crisis of social reproduction. Formula should not be commodified and sold — it should be free and a basic right for all parents.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
May 20, 2022There is No ‘Green Transition’
It’s hard to take talk of a “green transition” seriously when both the total volume of emissions, and the rate of increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, continue to hit new highs.
James Plested
April 4, 2022Rising Gas Prices Slam Workers Across the United States: Is There a Solution?
The working class is bearing the brunt of rising oil prices — and not only at the gas pump. All signs point to gasoline continuing to cost more and more. It’s not just about Russian oil and the invasion of Ukraine. It’s how capitalism works to enrich the few at the expense of the world’s masses.
Scott Cooper
March 12, 2022On the Anniversary of Its Publication, The Communist Manifesto’s Relevance Continues to Grow
As a revolutionary wave swept across Europe in 1848, led by reformers who wanted to overturn monarchies and secure their bourgeois property rights, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto as a call to arms for a different kind of uprising: proletarian revolution, aimed at freeing humanity from wage slavery. Today is the anniversary of that publication.
Scott Cooper
February 21, 2022A World to Win: Sign Up for Left Voice’s Intro to Marxism Reading Group
Join us this spring in an Intro to Marxism Reading Group. Meetings will be held every Sunday at 6 pm ET.
Left Voice
February 10, 2022Blood on Their Hands: U.S. Regime Responsible for More than 900,000 Covid Deaths and Counting
Over 900,000 people in the U.S. have died of Covid-19. This is a damning indictment of a capitalist system that has put profits over human lives.
Sou Mi
February 7, 2022Fire in the Bronx: Capitalist Mass Murder
A fire in New York City on Sunday killed at least 17 people. Eric Adams called it a "tragedy." We call it premeditated murder by real estate speculators.
Nathaniel Flakin
January 10, 2022“The CDC stands for Can’t Disrupt Capitalism” And Other Tweets That Capture the Moment
The internet has quite a lot to say about the new CDC guidelines for isolation. Here are some of our favorite tweets.
Left Voice
December 29, 2021