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Evict Cuomo not tenants!
Chants of “Housing is a human right!” filled Manhattan’s Third Avenue as more than a hundred angry tenants came to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s local office on Aug. 4. They demanded an end to […]
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Remembering the great scientific crusader who showed that no biological basis for race exists — Richard Lewontin
On July 4, Richard Lewontin, the dialectical biologist, Marxist and activist, died at the age of 92, just three days after the death of his wife of more than 70 years, Mary Jane. He was […]
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Save our homes — by any means necessary
Eleven million families face being thrown out of their homes. That’s because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ban on evictions and foreclosures expired July 31. So at least 30 million people have no […]
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No tears for war criminals: Donald Rumsfeld was U.S. torturer-in-chief
For the people of Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld was their Hitler. The former Pentagon boss killed over a million people in Iraq. The country is still occupied by Big Oil. Nobody in Iraq is mourning Rumsfeld, […]
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No one is laughing at Biden’s joke about U.S. interference in elections
At a June 16 news conference after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden was asked about the phony accusations of Russian interference in U.S. elections. Incredibly, he responded by saying: “How would it […]
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The Rosenbergs were heroes
In his funeral eulogy for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, W.E.B. Du Bois declared, “They died because they would not lie.” The Rosenbergs were burned to death in the electric chair by the U.S. government on […]
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Wealth taxes? We could do better than taxing the rich
A message to those who leaked the tax records of the extremely wealthy who do not pay taxes: Whoever leaked this report deserves a reward for revealing the information. Access to these tax reports is […]
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Bosses lie about ‘labor shortage’ to keep wages low
The May unemployment report wasn’t much better than the April disaster. Business news site CNBC summed it up: “Job creation disappointed again in May, with nonfarm payrolls up what normally would be considered a solid […]
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An open letter to President Joe Biden, as his broken promises pile up
Dear President Biden, Your broken promises are piling up. I took note of these headlines in just the last couple of weeks: “Joe Biden Surrenders On Federal Unemployment Benefits,” “Biden Drops Student Loan Forgiveness From […]
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Karl Marx: Capitalism produces unemployment
In Capital, Karl Marx wrote about the laws of capitalism and the ruthless capitalist competition for greater profits. In the drive to increase profits, capitalists try to reduce their costs by increasing productivity through the […]