Author: Gary Wilson

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Capitalist crisis

Ruling by decree: Trump interrupts golf game to issue executive orders

August 12, 2020 Gary Wilson
No relief in sight On Aug. 7, President Donald Trump interrupted his game of golf at his course in New Jersey to announce four executive orders he says will provide economic relief for struggling workers […]
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Capitalist crisis

Unemployment crisis: It’s about to get worse

July 21, 2020 Gary Wilson
  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 […]
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Elections

Black voter suppression near 1950s level

July 8, 2020 Gary Wilson
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled July 6 that states can penalize members of the Electoral College who do not support the winner of their state’s popular vote in a presidential election.  The court’s ruling is […]
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Fight racism

Donald Trump’s June 1 coup attempt

June 16, 2020 Gary Wilson
On Monday, June 1, Donald Trump called Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to the White House, where he got on […]
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Capitalist crisis

U.S. unemployment hits depression levels. Don’t blame China

May 29, 2020 Gary Wilson
  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 […]
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Elections

The rule of the rich is not democracy

May 26, 2020 Gary Wilson
The U.S. was established as a republic in 1787 and remains so to this day. It is a republic, but not a democracy. The American Revolution was not a bourgeois democratic one, like the great […]
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Covid-19

How Covid-19 shows U.S. dependence on workers

April 24, 2020 Gary Wilson
Health care workers, nurses, farmworkers, transit operators, grocery store clerks, warehouse packers, delivery workers, truck drivers, dockworkers, restaurant order takers, call center workers, service and industrial workers form the backbone of the U.S. economy.  When […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

The $2 trillion stimulus: Slush fund for Wall Street, trinkets for unemployed

March 30, 2020 Gary Wilson
March 27 — The $2 trillion stimulus plan passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump on March 27 is a massive giveaway to Big Business and the Wall Street banks with a small, […]
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Covid-19

Por qué el sistema de ganancias está entrando en crisis

March 26, 2020 Gary Wilson
Wall Street ha estado en una montaña rusa sin precedentes, con grandes oscilaciones en ambas direcciones todos los días durante más de una semana, una volatilidad no vista desde noviembre de 1929. El mercado bursátil […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

Why the profit system is spinning into crisis

March 20, 2020 Gary Wilson
Wall Street has been on an unprecedented roller coaster ride, with big swings in both directions every day for more than a week, a volatility not seen since November 1929. The stock market had the […]