Category Archives: News & Analysis

Reopening the U.S. Safely: Putting Our Health Above Profits

As Trump bails out his capitalist friends, workers are forced to sacrifice their health to keep the economy running. Americans are struggling to decide “do I work and risk infection or stay home and lose income?” We need a plan for combating the pandemic and safely re-opening the economy that doesn’t risk workers’ lives. Workers can organize for a safe re-opening and a new, socialist system that prioritizes people over profits.

Coronavirus Strikes; So Do We!

Despite record levels of unemployment, workers from diverse sectors of the economy have turned to collective action, fighting not only for a living wage and safe working conditions, but for their right to live! Amazon warehouse workers, Whole Foods workers, nurses, meat packers, bus drivers, nurses, and more are all sending a message to the capitalists – we won’t die for your profits!

The Case For Fare-Free Public Transit

The American public transportation system is chronically underfunded and mediocre at best. Depending on our broken public transportation system hurts working people who must pay more and more to use a system that keeps getting worse and worse. It’s time for us to fight for a better public transportation system—one that is designed by and for the workers that operate and use it. It’s time to make public transportation better, and that starts with making it fare-free.

International Workers Day – CWI Organizes Around the World

The global shutdown didn’t stop the workers’ movement and the Committee for a Workers’ International from celebrating International Workers Day on May 1st! The pandemic and economic crisis made this day of traditional struggle more important than ever. Check out the international rallies that ISG members spoke at on May 1st about how to organize the fight for universal free healthcare and job protection in the US!

International Workers’ Day 2020: Lives on the line as the capitalists order us back to work

International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, was born from the titanic struggle of the working class for the eight-hour workday, and throughout the years it has served as a flash point for workers’ struggles. Many past May Day struggles have been about workplace safety, and have meant life or death for the workers involved. This year, workers globally are organizing against capitalism’s failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Socialism Episode 66: US imperialism in decline: coronavirus, Trump, Sanders and socialism

Socialism is a weekly podcast produced by the Socialist Party of England and Wales, offering a Marxist analysis of the issues we face and the struggles of workers and youth around the world.

Episode 66, the latest episode of the podcast, looks at the ongoing decline of US imperialism, as capitalist chaos and coronavirus struggles envelop our nation. More episodes of Socialism can be found on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, as well as many other podcast services.

COVID-19 Triggers Long Anticipated Economic Crash

As the capitalist economy hurls deeper into recession, the federal government and central banks are producing trillions of dollars that they conveniently couldn’t find for increasing the federal minimum wage or other needed social benefits. The trillions of dollars being released during the COVID-19 crisis are mostly being dumped into the pockets of the rich and corporations in a failed effort to prop up the stock market.

Sanders Suspends Campaign and Endorses Biden

Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign to be the Democratic Party candidate for President and less than a week later, he formally endorsed Joe Biden as the party nominee in the presidential election this November. This move comes as a huge economic and social crisis unfolds in the U.S. where the failures of capitalism are fully on display in the system’s lack of preparation and chaotic response to the COVID-19 virus.