Author: Chris Fry

Migrants crossing southern border under concertina wire
Im/migrants and refugees

Imperialist sanctions and the crisis migrants face

October 11, 2023 Chris Fry
Millions of migrants have braved incredible hardship to find shelter and jobs in the U.S. Many have fled U.S. supported repressive regimes. Hundreds of thousands of others have left their countries that have been targeted […]
Artificial Intelligence challenges working class from Hollywood to the Pentagon
In the U.S.

Artificial intelligence and the class struggle

July 27, 2023 Chris Fry
Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, workers have fought company owners over their use of automated machinery to step up the pace of exploitation. “Programmable” looms in textile mills allowed owners to hire […]
Wall Street banks
In the U.S.

Debt ceiling deal means austerity for workers and the poor

June 17, 2023 Chris Fry
With tremendous media fanfare, President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy agreed to allow the so-called “debt ceiling” to be raised until 2025. Despite assuring the public that cutting money to federal […]
Fortune mag cover2
Capitalism and Marxism

Corporate magazine describes and bemoans the ‘end of capitalism’

April 27, 2023 Chris Fry
An April 5th article from the aptly-named pro-capitalist magazine website, Fortune.com, carried the title:  “‘We may be looking at the end of capitalism’: One of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks warns ‘Greedflation’ has gone […]
Despite promises not to, Biden is opening Alaska wilderness to more oil drilling.
Environment

Earth Day 2023: Biden’s betrayal, government repression and sodium batteries

April 24, 2023 Chris Fry
April 22 is this year’s “Earth Day.” Since 1970 that date highlights the struggle by environmental activists, particularly from the Indigenous communities, against Big Oil and big business in their ceaseless profit-driven pollution of the […]
Taipeis mayor hosts dinner for delegation from Shanghai
China

Blinken attacks China for seeking peace in Ukraine

February 25, 2023 Chris Fry
Unable to intimidate the leadership of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over its balloon being shot down by U.S. Air Force jets along with three other balloons in a missile-firing frenzy, President Biden, through […]
Balloons
China

Balloon shootout: Pretext for war with China

February 15, 2023 Chris Fry
A stealth F22 fighter, costing some $350 million, managed to shoot down its first aircraft on February 4, a large Chinese balloon off the South Carolina coast. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) stated that […]
Taiwans President Tsai and ruling DPP rebuffed by voters in local elections
China

Taiwan local election shocks U.S. imperialism

December 19, 2022 Chris Fry
On November 26, local elections were held throughout Taiwan, an island that has always been part of China but since 1949 has been ruled by a fascist leadership driven out of the mainland by the […]
Pentagon plans for destruction of Taiwan chip facility
Around the world

Pentagon’s ‘Broken Nest’ strategy for Taiwan

November 3, 2022 Chris Fry
In the midst of a growing economic attack on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by the Biden Administration, an Oct. 12th article in the tech newsletter gizmodo.com carried the extraordinary title “Taiwan Official Explains with Extreme […]
Anti inflation rallies have hit England
Around the world

Inflation and energy protests explode in Europe

October 2, 2022 Chris Fry
In the wake of the U.S. Ukraine proxy war against Russia, protests have erupted in Europe and around the world over the sky-high energy and food prices caused by the sanctions that the Biden administration […]