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How the American Tax System Favors the Rich and Punishes Working People
Tax season is approaching in the United States, bringing with it a laundry list of headaches and anxieties. What is in theory a system...
War Escalates in Ukraine – We Need a Genuine Left Antiwar Movement
Last month, President Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine, making it clear that the U.S. is prepared to stay invested in this war...
Deadlier than War: Fighting for a Future Free of Air Pollution
Globally, air pollution cuts life expectancy by nearly 2.2 years – more than alcohol, cigarettes, and even war. Four in 10 Americans live in...
The Railroads Should Be in Public Hands
The railroads were in crisis. Supply chains were a mess and prices were climbing fast. Thousands of railcars filled to the brim with American...
Pack The Halls: Students Organize To Fight Anti-Trans Bills
In late February, students at Danville High School in Kentucky staged an in-school protest during their free period against right-wing attacks on trans youth....
A Clash of Titans
How Amazon is Fighting Tooth-and-Nail to Stop Workers From Unionizing Its Biggest Air Hub To Amazon’s corporate suits at their headquarters in Seattle, the KCVG...
General Strike Against Netanyahu and Far Right Amid Historic Political Crisis
By Shahar Ben Horin and Yasha Marmer, Socialist Struggle (ISA in Israel/Palestine). Since the first week of January, Israeli capitalism has been gripped by an...
California’s Brutal Winter
By Elliot Bartz, Reserve Trainee with Alameda County Fire (personal capacity). In an era of accelerating climate change, extreme and unpredictable weather is the new...
Communism Gets a Cameo in The Last of Us
This article contains some spoilers. HBO’s latest hit series The Last of Us, based on the 2013 video game of the same name, depicts a...
In A Post-Roe World, The Right Declares War On Abortion Pills
A Trump-appointed federal judge is on the verge of ruling in favor of a bogus lawsuit by anti-abortion groups to ban mifepristone, a critical...
Northern Ireland in Crisis: Brexit, the NI Protocol, and the Rising Threat of Sectarian Violence
Since the Brexit referendum of 2016 mandated the UK’s exit from the European Union, the hope among sections of the British ruling class that...
Workers Strike Back: On the Ground of a Historic Moment for LA Schools
By Hannah Swoboda, Workers Strike Back Last Wednesday, Workers Strike Back joined tens of thousands of unionized Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) workers at...
SVB Collapse Detonates Financial Crisis
The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank last week has opened up a significant financial crisis for U.S. capitalism which now appears to be...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapses: A New Global Banking Crisis?
Originally published March 14 at internationalsocialist.net. The threat of a banking crisis hovers over the world economy after the crash of Silicon Valley Bank...
Madness and Exploitation
March Madness is here! For one month, college basketball treats fans to one of the most exciting tournaments in sports, full of dazzling skill...
The Case for a Four-Day Work Week
Since the pandemic, workers have been increasingly unwilling to accept the alienating nature of work under capitalism. Ideas like “anti-work” and “acting your wage”...
IWD 2023: Beat the Right-Wing Backlash with Socialist Feminism!
Originally published March 5 at internationalsocialist.net. International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023 approaches as the wave of women leading movements and struggle against oppression and...
Where is the Women’s Movement?
After decades of painfully slow yet measurable progress for women – a shrinking wage gap; increasing awareness of gender-based discrimination, harassment, and violence; and...