Baby Formula Shortage: Capitalism Fails America’s Infants

Over the past few weeks, a shortage of baby formula has grown into a nationwide crisis, leaving millions of families scrambling for safe food for their infants. With an out-of-stock rate of over 40%, many parents are driving for miles and waiting weeks for backlogged deliveries—if they can find the right formula for their babies in […]

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover: Nationalize social media!

On April 25, Twitter announced that its board of directors would accept a $44 billion bid by Elon Musk to purchase the social media company. Pending shareholder approval, the deal is set to be finalized over the next three to six months. Musk, currently the richest person on Earth, with a net worth of $259 billion, would […]

U.S. Supreme Court assaults abortion rights: Fight back with class struggle!

Yet another unprecedented bombshell has rocked the already polarized world of American politics and class struggle. In a leaked internal memo drafted by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the majority of that reactionary body outlines its case for the judicial overturn of Roe v. Wade, the historic 1973 decision that ruled that the US Constitution protects […]

Amazon Labor Union and the awakening of the American working class

“Economic conditions had first transformed the mass of the people of the country into workers. The combination of capital has created for this mass a common situation, common interests. This mass is thus already a class as against capital, but not yet for itself. In the struggle… this mass becomes united, and constitutes itself as […]

CIA used prisoner as ‘prop’ to teach torture methods

While the US and its allies decry Russia’s brutality in Ukraine, a recently declassified report has shed light on some of the practices of western imperialism. It has been revealed that the CIA spent three years using a detainee in Afghanistan as a ‘puppet’ to train interrogators in torture methods. This individual was subject to senseless brutality, […]

Major League Baseball lockout: Workers’ game held hostage by the owners’ greed

On Tuesday, March 1, after 10 days of fruitless negotiations between team owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), Major League Baseball (MLB) announced the cancellation of the first two series of the regular season (roughly six games per team). This came amidst an owner-imposed lockout of the players that began on Dec. […]

Deadly east coast fires: Capitalist housing kills!

On January 5, a Philadelphia row house caught fire, killing 12 people. Just four days later, on January 9, a fire in a Bronx apartment building killed 17. In both cases, many more were injured and displaced. Among those killed were sixteen children. The tenants affected by both fires were working class and predominantly Black. […]

USA tornadoes: workers murdered by capitalism!

Over the past several days, a massive tornado outbreak in the US has led to a series of deaths in workplaces, due to the bosses’ refusal to take even minimum steps to keep employees safe. Tragedies such as these amount to corporate murder. They expose the callousness inherent to capitalism, which sacrifices workers’ lives on […]

Rittenhouse acquitted: Another racist killer walks free

Last August, the brutal police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, reignited the flames of the Black Lives Matter movement in the small town of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Thousands came out against racism and police terror as protests again spread, first to Milwaukee, Chicago, and then to major cities from coast to coast. On the […]

Striketober: sleeping giant of US labour movement begins to stir

The USA has been hit by a ‘Striketober’ of industrial action across a range of sectors: from healthcare to construction; carpentry to coal mining; media to communications; snack foods and cereal manufacturing. In all, 100,000 workers voted to authorise strike action this month. The old union bureaucrats have undermined some of these struggles, but they […]