Capitalist crisis

Wall Street’s New Year’s party: Dancing on the backs of poor workers

January 4, 2021 Gary Wilson

“Wall Street sets new highs to end 2020,” the Associated Press reported on Jan. 1, 2021. “Wall Street closed out a tumultuous year for stocks with more record highs on Thursday, a fitting coda to […]

Dispatches from the housing war

January 2, 2021 Greg Butterfield

Jan. 1 — Millions of renters and homeowners received a last-minute reprieve when President Donald Trump finally signed the (pitiful, inadequate) congressional stimulus bill on Dec. 27 after several days’ delay. The measure extended the […]

Jeff Bezos says you don’t deserve $2,000

December 31, 2020 Stephen Millies

Jeff Bezos has a fortune of $194 billion. Just in the United States, over a third of a million people have died from the coronavirus. The tragedy has been a gold mine for the […]

Billionaires got a trillion. We get $600.

December 23, 2020 Stephen Millies

After months of doing nothing, the super Scrooge Congress finally provided a little help for poor and working people. We desperately need it. The coronavirus pandemic has killed over 320,000 people in the United States. […]

Why won’t Congress deliver badly needed stimulus checks?

December 6, 2020 Gary Wilson

“Stimulus bill and checks not likely to arrive before Biden takes office,” Newsweek reported on Dec. 5. On Dec. 2, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that they had offered […]

The war against street merchants

December 4, 2020 Stephen Millies

Jobless men sold apples during the Great Depression. Ninety years later, many city sidewalks are lined with street merchants trying to sell food, clothing and other needed goods. Why are these women and men willing […]

NYC postal workers rally

August 28, 2020 Stephen Millies

Postal workers and their supporters demonstrated across the country on Aug. 25. They were protesting the attacks on the postal service by President Trump and Postmaster General DeJoy. In New York City, a protest rally […]

“Billionaire landlords have to go!”

August 23, 2020 Stephen Millies

Aug. 20 ― Over five hundred people came to New York City’s public research library on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue this afternoon. They were determined to stop the wave of evictions that is coming. New York […]

Wrecking the post office and the election

August 20, 2020 Stephen Millies

From Harlem to Seattle, mail boxes are being removed by orders of Trump’s handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy. Trump is sabotaging the post office in an attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election. The mail […]

Unemployed Workers Committee launched to stop evictions and utility shutoffs

August 14, 2020 Sharon Black

The Peoples Power Assembly is launching an Unemployed Workers Committee to Stop Evictions, Foreclosures and Utility Shutoffs. Its slogan is, “Through solidarity we can protect each other against capitalism and injustice.” Here is the list […]