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Capitalism

Fighting 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, 2020

Racism 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, 2020

We 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, 2020

Tiger 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, 2020

Capitalist 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, 2020

The 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, 2020

Capitalism 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, 2020

The 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, 2020

Class, 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