Capitalism
Prison Struggle Is Class Struggle: Incarcerated Workers Rise up Against COVID-19 Exploitation
In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, workers from all sectors around the world have been fighting back against the capitalist conditions that have worsened the situation. Workers in Italy have gone on general strike, Amazon employees have walked off the job, nurses have protested, and Whole Foods workers have staged mass sick-outs. These actions haven’t just been limited to the general population of working-class people; there have also been actions by incarcerated workers.
Liz Dunn
April 18, 2020Fighting the Plagues of Locusts and COVID-19
Rampant climate change and Covid-19 restrictions have led to one of the worst locust swarms in decades. From East Africa to The Middle East, millions of people face food shortages and economic catastrophe.
James Dennis Hoff
April 18, 2020Racism Is a Preexisting Condition
From increased violent attacks against Asian people to the disproportionately high COVID-19 fatality rates for Black and Brown people, racism is a preexisting condition. Workers and oppressed people must fight back.
Julia Wallace
April 16, 2020We Won’t Die for Their Profits
The ruling class wants you to go back to work but on whose terms?
James Dennis Hoff
April 15, 2020Tiger King: A Show of Profit and Abuse
Tiger King has become the most watched show on American Netflix since the coronavirus swept the nation. The insidious greed of the roadside zoo industry has led to rampant abuse of the exotic animals in their care.
Kimberly Ann
April 14, 2020Capitalist Profiteering in the Age of the Coronavirus
The legal framework under which capitalism operates allows the wealthy and big business to engage in the same kind of petty thievery as profiteers and price-gougers, except with impunity and on a massive scale. With the coronavirus pandemic, this is made blatantly obvious every day.
Scott Cooper
April 10, 2020The Money Has Always Been There: Coronavirus Response Reveals Capital’s Lies
In the past weeks, companies and governments alike have begrudgingly been forced to provide minimal relief to workers suffering under the coronavirus pandemic. These concessions are not enough to prevent the serious physical, emotional, and financial harms that people around the country (and the world) are facing, but they do reveal just how many policies that were previously called “not feasible” or “too expensive” could have been rapidly implemented in our workplaces and in our lives all along.
Olivia Wood
April 5, 2020Capitalism is a Death Cult: #NotDying4WallStreet
Donald Trump and the capitalists want to save the economy by putting millions of working-class people at risk of the coronavirus. We won't die for Wall Street.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
March 24, 2020The Coronavirus Lays Bare Capitalism’s Inhumanity
Crises have a nasty tendency to unmask not only the weaknesses of a system, but also the lies upon which the arguments in favor of a corrupt system are based. That’s what we’re seeing in the coronavirus crisis, as capitalism lurches forward hell-bent on saving its economic “fundamentals.”
Scott Cooper
March 17, 2020Class, Morality, and Capitalism in ‘Parasite’
"Parasite" is a cross over hit, becoming the first South Korean film ever nominated for an Oscar. Its success is due to the fact that it encapsulates the parasitic relationship between the rich and the working class
Sybil Davis
January 16, 2020