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, by LA BOTZ Dan
The struggle between the Republican and Democratic Parties over the national debt threatens the social programs that help the country’s poor.
House leader Kevin McCarthy, who speaks for the Republicans who have a majority in the House of Representatives which controls the country’s budget, has (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
U.S. President Joe Biden, using his executive authority, has put in place a new immigration policy designed to stop most of those seeking to immigrate into the United States.
With the expiration of Title 42, a public health measure used by former president Donald Trump and then by Biden (...)
, by FUENTES Federico
Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, whose contributions to reviving Karl Marx’s vision of socialism are essential reading for activists.
Lebowitz built on his (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Some 11,500 writers for the entertainment industry—TV broadcast and cable, movies and streaming—most based in Los Angeles and New York, decided May 1 to strike the industry over pay and job security, the first such strike in fifteen years. It may also be the first strike over artificial (...)
, by FEELEY Dianne
WITH THE NEW UAW International Executive Board (IEB) sworn in and the 2023 UAW Bargaining Convention concluded, the union must focus on the upcoming negotiations for its Big Three auto contracts.
For their part, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) are gearing up as the (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
While it is still a year and seven months until the next U.S. presidential election, the race is beginning to shape up as a rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump. Biden, saying he is fighting for “freedom” and “our democracy,” formally announced that he will be a (...)
, by MIAH Malik
What is Atlanta’s “Cop City”? Why are people protesting?
Protests began in 2021 when the city announced plans to open Cop City – officially called the Public Safety Training Center (PSTC).
The large police training center, to be constructed on forest land owned by the city, has garnered national (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Abortion is the center of American politics and likely to remain a principal issue through the 2024 election. Republicans have made the virtual elimination of abortion rights the leading edge of their political campaigns, their legislative agenda, and their judicial battles.
Every Republican (...)
, by MIAH Malik
TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS, ALL Republicans, voted to expel two members from the state legislature after they and a third member — all Democrats — took part in a protest against gun violence from the floor of the chamber in the state’s capital in Nashville.
The April 6 votes resulted in Justin Jones (...)
, by MIAH Malik
WE LIVE IN a surreal reality. Those of us who argue for truth-telling about history are attacked as practicing a nonexistent “wokeism” as described by Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and followers of former president Donald Trump.
“Anti-Wokeism” is an attack on both racial justice and (...)
, by LOWENSTEIN Fiona, PRIOR Ryan
Millions of American adults are impaired by long Covid. They have a vision for what our society owes to chronically ill and disabled people."
On a muggy late-summer day in September 2022, dozens of disabled protesters lay on the sidewalk outside the White House. The ground was hot, and sweat (...)
, by SHAFER Paul, STOJANOVSKI Kristefer
On the basis of government appointment technicalities and religious freedom, Americans may lose free coverage for cancer and blood pressure screenings, HIV prevention medication and other essential services.
Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable (...)
, by RILEY Dylan
The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and its knock-on effects such as the bailout of Credit Suisse has elicited the usual flurry of social-psychologizing in the ‘quality press’. On a recent New York Times podcast, the former Treasury official Morgan Ricks reached new heights of (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Former president Donald J. Trump has been indicted and the Republican Party and his rightwing supporters are rallying around him. This event brings us to a new stage that will be replete with indictments, political struggles in Congress, and perhaps significant social upheaval. At issue is the (...)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
As discussed by Marxist economist Sam Williams on his Critique of Crisis Theory blog, early in March, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in California, the “favorite bank of the area’s tech companies and associated venture capitalists”, announced it was selling its government bonds to raise cash. Fearful (...)
, by MOODY Kim
Kim Moody looks at the changing economic, internal union, and political contexts for workers whose contracts expire this year and argues that intransigent employers will face a union workforce with years of accumulated grievances, a cost-of-living crisis, and a rebellious rank and file. We can (...)
, by COOKE Shamus
Bernie Sanders’ newest book, “It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism,” was clearly written by Sanders, whose voice reverberates loudly in print from beginning to end. The curious title led many to speculate about the book’s content.
Many readers likely hoped it would include a tell-all about the (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in California on March 10 set off a chain reaction as depositors withdrew funds causing it and other small banks to fail or face serious problems, among them Signature Bank in New York, and First Republic Bank in San Francisco. Stock markets worldwide (...)
, by BURLEY Shane
Fascist activists are seeking to exploit a fracture on the left over the war in Ukraine to grow their movement.
The idea of a political coalition that mixes self-identified communists with neo-Nazis may seem implausible at first. However, a February 19 rally in Washington, D.C., branded as an (...)
, by ELLSBERG Daniel
Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public.
Daniel Ellsberg. (Free Getty embed, Paul J. RIchards)
Dear friends and supporters,
I have (...)
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