capitalism
New graphic book helps to ‘Unrig’ our broken election system
October 30, 2020A better articulation of the class dynamics at work in our political system would have added to Newman and O’Connor’s overall analysis of our broken democracy, but this is still a very valuable book.
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On anniversary of Great Depression, 25 million collecting unemployment
October 29, 2020Nine decades after the first Great Depression started, we are now in the midst of another, with a president who has no plan to get us out of it.
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Trump is white supremacy’s symbol, but the fight against it goes beyond him
October 23, 2020We have a man in the White House who inspires and gives a platform to domestic terrorists. Yet, while Trump exacerbates the white supremacist danger, he is not its main cause.
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Save the world, defeat Trump: Thoughts from a fellow worker in Canada
October 22, 2020The choice facing U.S. voters on Nov. 3 is between the remnants of bourgeois democracy and an open terrorist dictatorship of billionaires, and it is heartening to hear the U.S. labor movement is choosing sides.
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Trump’s Google antitrust lawsuit: Blow against monopoly or political theater?
October 20, 2020In the attempt to score votes for Trump, the DOJ’s premature anti-monopoly case may end up giving Google a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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