Crisis

The UAW Strike Is the Most Important in Decades
One of the most ambitious and combative labor struggles in decades, the UAW strike reflects the growing power of the U.S. working class in a period of increasing political crisis.
Daniel Alfonso
October 2, 2023Notes on the International Situation
A Convulsive New Phase of the Crisis of Neoliberalism — A Document for the Left Voice Congress
Left Voice
October 1, 2023A Slow-Moving Crisis of the Empire
Notes on the National Situation – A Document for the Left Voice Congress
Left Voice
October 1, 2023The Return of the “Era of Crises, Wars, and Revolutions”
The 12th conference of the Trotskyist Fraction — Fourth International (FT-CI) discussed the prospects for the internationalist revolutionary Left
Claudia Cinatti
July 11, 2023Protests Reach Fever Pitch in Sri Lanka Amid Historic Economic Crisis
In Sri Lanka, the government has imposed a state of emergency to control protests and mass anger over a deepening economic crisis that has led to debilitating shortages of food, fuel, and basic goods.
Sou Mi
April 2, 2022Stopgaps Won’t Stop the Crisis — the Capitalists Must Pay
On Thursday, September 30, Joe Biden postponed the government shutdown. A week later, the debt ceiling was raised by $480 billion. Capitalist crisis is ultimately inevitable unless we fight back with working-class methods.
K.S. Mehta
October 7, 2021Stocks Fall, GDP Rises, Workers Always Take a Beating
Regardless of who wins the election next week, the economy is tanking. Rather than recovery, the pandemic and coming recession promise more market volatility and more hardship for the working class. What do the most recent numbers tell us?
Scott Cooper
October 29, 2020Explosions in Beirut: A Disaster in a Country in Crisis and Revolt
A double explosion devastated Lebanon’s capital on Tuesday. This disaster is a tragedy in a country which faces an economic and political crisis, marked by significant mobilizations for a year.
Nathan Erderof
August 6, 2020Corporatism is a Feature of Capitalism, not a Bug
Capitalism inevitably leads to billionaires and large corporations dominating all of society, because it is a system designed to funnel the wealth of the many to the few.
Signý A.
July 11, 2020Freeze Layoffs: Make the Capitalists Pay
As the coronavirus epidemic stretches on, working people are facing an economic collapse, the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. Organizing to fight for an immediate ban on all layoffs has to be an essential part of any program to protect the working class and to make the capitalist’s pay for their crisis.
James Dennis Hoff
March 23, 2020