Socialism and dignity: We need free public transit
New York City bus riders will have to start paying $2.75 again on Aug. 31. That’s 55 times what the fare was in 1948, when it cost a nickel. Transit systems in Baltimore, Chicago and […]
New York City bus riders will have to start paying $2.75 again on Aug. 31. That’s 55 times what the fare was in 1948, when it cost a nickel. Transit systems in Baltimore, Chicago and […]
Deamonte Driver didn’t have to die. An abscessed tooth led to the 12-year-old Black youth’s death on Feb. 25, 2007. Deamonte’s mother, Alyce Driver, worked two jobs. But her pay was so low that she […]
Over 20 million workers are unemployed in the United States. That’s a catastrophe. Joblessness hasn’t been this high since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Extended unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic […]
When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary. That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of […]
Seventy-year-old Enock Benjamin never got to retire. The United Food and Commercial Workers union steward died of COVID-19 on April 3. Born in Haiti, Benjamin was one of many workers from other lands employed in […]
Capitalism is humiliation. Having to ask to go to the bathroom can be deeply humiliating. As a young girl, Julia Wright was escorted by a family friend, Constance Webb, to Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store. […]
No millionaire has ever been executed in the United States. Hardly any rich people have been buried in New York City’s Potter’s Field. Over a million poor people are interred there on Hart Island off […]
Why are so many people in nursing homes dying from the coronavirus? Over 28,000 people across the United States have died in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities. Nearly 35 percent of the COVID-19 […]
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