Dr. Steven Strauss explains the Democratic Party rumpus over healthcare, two of the main proposals, and what’s really needed.
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Trump’s tax cuts are only for the rich
What a superb argument for expropriating the criminally wealthy and spending public money on the public.
Freedom Socialist editorial: Labor could shut down the shutdown
A prophetic editorial written before Donald Trump caved after flight attendants and other aviation workers refused to show up to work.
French Yellow Vest protests spread
The massive protest that is boiling over into other countries needs anti-capitalist politics to fulfill its promise.
Renewed attacks on Social Security: scare tactics and shell games
Guess what? The government and politicians are lying about “insufficient” funds.
Door slams on rent control
Why Prop. 10 failed in California
Poverty by design
Why worker’s paychecks can’t pay the bills — in the richest country in the world.
VIDEO: How much money have humans created?
Notable for its mind-boggling facts about the existence of staggering amounts of what Marx called “fictitious capital.”
Trump’s NAFTA publicity stunt
While endlessly covering Trump’s false NAFTA-supplanting deal with Mexico at the end of August, the U.S. press avoided reporting on how very bad any free trade agreement is for the working class.
Big business 1, homeless 0
Amazon led the crusade to kill a progressive “head tax” in Seattle, designed to alleviate the city’s homeless crisis.