Capitalism
Ravaged by Climate Change: 400,000 On the Brink of Starvation in Madagascar
Over one million people in southern Madagascar are food insecure, while almost half a million are on the brink of starvation. Climate change is to blame, and capitalism ensures that the Global South will pay the highest price.
Otto Fors
July 2, 2021Churches Participated in Racism and Colonialism. Expropriate and Tax Them
The Catholic Church ran re-education schools for indigenous children in Canada that were rife with abuse and death. We must fight to hold the church accountable and demand that their land be expropriated and their profits taxed.
Sybil Davis
July 1, 2021The Infrastructure Debate: Yet Another Sign of the Ongoing Crisis
The infrastructure debate shows once again that the ruling class cannot solve the contradictions of capitalism.
James Dennis Hoff
June 23, 2021Profits Call the Tune
Profit is not a "gift of capital," and does not rely on investment. Profits can be generated out of the exploitation of labor power without further investment, and indeed, that is what we can see now in the expansion of ‘fictitious capital’ at the expense of productive investment.
Michael Roberts
June 17, 2021Jeff Bezos Is Going into Space. Fingers Crossed He Won’t Come Back
If Bezos, Musk and Co. want to go “off Earth,” then let them. Our task is to ensure that at some point, when they come back, they’ll find the completely irrational, exploitative system of capitalism on which their obscene wealth was based has been dismantled and replaced with a socialist society.
James Plested
June 9, 2021From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism
It was the super-exploitation of poor Black labor that facilitated both the function of Tulsa as a whole and the Black Wall Street District. Neither could have existed without the presence of poor Black people. Yet, their presence is rarely acknowledged in the revisionist plot.
Too Black
June 4, 2021An Illustrated History of May Day
May Day, or International Workers Day, is celebrated every year around the world to honor the struggles of the generations of workers who fought against capitalist exploitation. Here we take a look at the one that started it all — the Haymarket uprising in Chicago, 1886.
Sarah Crowe
May 1, 2021Every Government Agency Serves the Bourgeoisie — Even the Post Office
A recent report revealed that the USPS has been secretly surveilling social media sites and reporting to the Department of Homeland Security. But the bourgeois function of the Post Office didn’t originate with online surveillance.
Olivia Wood
April 23, 2021Football: Created by the Poor, Stolen by the Rich
Private capital and sport for profit must be replaced by a real people’s sport, run by the people for the people.
Michael Roberts
April 22, 2021The Fight for Autism Acceptance Is the Fight for Socialism
This #AutismAcceptanceMonth, a Left Voice writer reflects on his experiences on the spectrum under capitalism.
Samuel Karlin
April 20, 2021