capitalism

Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires

September 23, 2022 By Margie Mason And Robin McDowell

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.

Socialism makes the difference: Cuba and China exceed U.S. in life expectancy

September 21, 2022 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Decent and healthy lives are far from routine in capitalist countries, where poor health is associated with low social-economic status.

AFL-CIO panel: Blame corporate greed, not workers, for inflation

September 21, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Rather than a pro-worker solution, as elections draw near Federal Reserve pushes to hike interest rates again and GOP offers nothing but blaming Biden.

Federal Reserve readies war on inflation, guess who’ll pay the price? Workers.

September 20, 2022 By Robert Reich

The war on inflation is about to get ugly.

Capitalism’s climate inequality: The rich keep cool while the poor roast

September 19, 2022 By Sam Pizzigati

Temperatures in New York’s low-income South Bronx run 8 degrees higher than in the wealthy neighborhoods of Manhattan’s Upper West and East Sides.