The Profit-Driven Causes of the US “Physician Shortage”

This year, thousands of qualified physicians were prevented from practicing medicine due a shortage of training programs. The reason is primarily to bolster hospital profits and maintain high physician salaries.

Capitalism Kills — Literally

Researchers have shown that utility disconnections, like evictions, have led to quantifiable excess cases of Covid-19, and even death. Just another year under capitalism.

If One Ship Can Disrupt Capitalism This Much, Imagine What the Working Class Could Do

The six-day crisis caused by a ship run aground in the Suez Canal has ended. But it has exposed capitalism’s vulnerabilities, and the choke points that would allow the organized working class to take over the levers of production and distribution.

The Giant Container Ship Stuck in the Suez Canal is a Metaphor for Capitalism in Crisis

With the giant container ship MV Ever Given blocking the passage of ships through the Suez Canal, capitalists around the world are scrambling to figure out how to deal with yet another blow to their global supply chains that have been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Capitalism and Healthcare: The Con of “Nonprofit” Hospitals

Nonprofit hospitals operate under the guise of “charity” in order to avoid paying taxes. Capitalist healthcare cannot safeguard public health — but a nationalized system under democratic, worker control can.

Ten Years After the Arab Revolutions

Every revolution is a product of unique circumstances and speaks to the universal experiences of poverty, oppression and violence under capitalism. They tend to erupt when millions of people decide that they can no longer put up with life as usual and when the ruling establishment can no longer control the discontent in the usual ways. Both of these conditions were present in 2011.

A Cuban Covid Vaccine Could Help Save the World’s Most Vulnerable

Cuba’s remarkably successful state-owned biotech sector is on the cusp of completing development of a novel vaccine for Covid-19 that it will use to immunize its own population. But its plans to produce nearly 10 times what’s needed for that, and Cuba’s long history of medical internationalism, is a promising sign for those whom capitalist vaccination programs are leaving behind.

Berlin Residents Have Built a Campaign to Expropriate the City’s Biggest Landlord

The German state expropriates things all the time, like when it needs to build an Autobahn. When a pit mine for lignite coal is built, whole villages get nationalized. So why not do the same thing to provide affordable housing for all? 

Lessons From the Texas Disaster

Below, Ashley Dawson, author of People's Power, explains how the man-made disaster caused by the failure of the Texas electrical grid this week shows the necessity for publicly owned and worker-controlled production of clean energy.