Capitalism
Socialism is The Future. Our Generation Will Win It.
We are in the midst of widespread uprisings against racist state violence, led by a vanguard of Black youth. With more and more young people pushing forward and leading social movements, working class youth must ensure our movements don’t fall away or be co-opted by the Democratic Party. We need to create a political party of our own, one that has the youth united with the working class to take the fight directly to the capitalist system.
Sybil Davis
June 26, 2020Racism, Capitalism, and Class Struggle
The anti-racist uprising in the United States over the brutal murder of George Floyd reopens a strategic question: How do we link the struggle against racism with the struggle against capitalist exploitation? This article draws the counterpoint between the theories of intersectionality and Marxism.
Josefina L. Martínez
June 9, 2020The Whole Damn System Is Guilty as Hell
While the ongoing rebellion is starting its second week, new questions are emerging. Where is the movement of liberation coming from, and where it is going?
Leo Zino
June 2, 2020Stop The Evictions!
With the temporary moratorium on evictions expiring, many states have announced plans to resume evictions. This is a heartless move that criminalizes poverty and increases the risks for spreading the coronavirus even further.
Sybil Davis
May 22, 2020Elon Musk’s Deadly Obsession with Profit
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has been spreading false and dangerous information about the coronavirus since the beginning of the crisis. Earlier this week he escalated and dangerously re-opened his California factory. This shows the hypocrisy of Big Tech: they want to pretend to be a new type of capitalist but they are just as willing to endanger workers for their profits as any other industrialist.
Olivia Wood
May 15, 2020COVID-19 Billionaires: Who Are the Virus Profiteers?
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has increased his wealth by $10 billion since the United States was hit by COVID-19. Who else is profiting from the pandemic?
Javier Nuet
May 12, 2020Capitalism is a Virus: Value Chains, Class Struggle, and the United Front
The coronavirus has spread around the world through the circuits of capital and value chains, dividing the working class and putting millions of frontline workers at risk. Reorganizing the forces of the proletariat to respond to this threat is the only way forward.
James Dennis Hoff
May 11, 2020A Socialist Plan to Re-Open the Economy
The ruling class is pushing to reopen the economy, but neither the health nor the economic security of the working class is being taken into consideration. Efforts to reopen must be directed towards protecting the working class --- not capitalist profits.
Ana Rivera
April 26, 2020Cuts to Public Arts Got you Down? We Need a Free and Public Netflix
Working people deserve good entertainment. We can do better than Netflix.
Kimberly Ann
April 25, 2020Furniture that Tells a Story: The Capitalist Destruction of Craftsmanship
Capitalism has made craftsmanship of furniture into something that only the rich can afford. This means that the working class is being forced to settle for cheap and disposable furniture with no sentimental or material value. But we don’t have to live this way.
Chandler Black
April 24, 2020