The jaw-dropping speed of COVID-19 vaccine development is a glorious marvel of science, cooperation, and economic planning. But the lifeboat ethics of vaccine rollout is a horrifying display of the cruelty of capitalism.
A century ago, socialists demanded that housing serve public need rather than private profit. That aspiration is still relevant today, but it can only be realized under one condition: abolishing landlords.
Rents are too high. Joe Biden should issue an executive order to lower them.
As a black, female family physician, I see the realities of America’s massive racial health disparities every day. Bernie Sanders is the presidential candidate who best understands those disparities and is ready to fight them.
Uber and Lyft want you to believe they’re suffering an unfair assault by the state of California’s government to end drivers’ independent contractor status. The reality: Uber and Lyft are very wealthy and very powerful, and they’re using that wealth and power to threaten a capital strike, a withdrawing of investment in a way that would hurt drivers and riders, to get what they want.
All people should have the right to effective legal representation when they’re facing criminal charges. But the Supreme Court has just issued a ruling that severely curtails that basic right.
The popularity of Berlin’s campaign to expropriate corporate landlords shows just how few people trust capitalism to provide them with affordable, good-quality homes.
A popular protest movement is winning a war of attrition against Colombia’s authoritarian and neoliberal government. We talk to activist leader Jennifer Pedraza about how they're coordinating the upheaval and the challenges ahead.
Social movements should focus on targeting corporations and oppressive institutions rather than politicians.
The rule of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has been grotesque. Is his power finally slipping?
Labor has seen a jolt of new energy recently. Across the United States, museum workers are part of that upsurge.
Recent regional elections in India handed Modi’s BJP important new majorities. How can it be stopped?
Striking UK lecturers can still win the fight for their pensions — and reclaim their union.
The soft coup now underway in Brazil shows just how quickly capitalists can turn against democracy.
For forty years, liberals have accepted defeat and called it "incremental progress." Bernie Sanders offers a different way forward.
Liberals and conservatives alike love to decry AOC's Green New Deal as "unrealistic." But what's really unrealistic is continuing on the path of denial and incrementalism we're on now.
Economic crises, climate change, and a pandemic have given people much to fear. While the Right promises security for a few at the expense of the many, socialists need a compelling vision of how protection from the market's depravities can be extended to all.
Rent control means more money and control for renters and less for landlords. It’s why they hate it — and why we should fight for it.
A plan to take on Big Pharma — and create and distribute lifesaving drugs.