Capitalist crisis

As COVID-19 continues to kill hundreds of people every day in the United States, a summer heat wave will also be a big killer. Twenty-five years ago, at least 739 people died in Chicago during […]

  At the end of July, the extra $600 per week in expanded unemployment benefits will expire. Congress has not acted to extend the benefits or provide anything in its place. But nearly half of […]

July 1 — As a consequence of bosses’ rush to “reopen the economy” for profit amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic — and the unwillingness or inability of bought-and-paid-for political “leaders” to stand up to their […]

“How bad is unemployment?” headlined the May 8 edition of the New York Times. “Literally off the charts.” Axios reports as of May 30 that the real unemployment rate was at least 24 percent and […]

  The New York Times headline declared: “U.S. unemployment worst since the Great Depression.” (New York Times, May 9, 2020, print edition) Actually, the Times report understated the unemployment numbers. In a press release, the […]

Fruit processing workers are on strike at 13 plants in Washington state’s Yakima Valley. “Hoppers” — sanitation workers who do the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs — are on strike in New Orleans. Retail workers and […]

Ninety years ago, on March 6, 1930, over a million people demonstrated across the United States for unemployment relief. The Great Depression had broken out a few months before, punctuated by the stock market crash […]