Capitalist crisis

Dispatches from the housing war

Jan. 1 — Millions of renters and homeowners received a last-minute reprieve when President Donald Trump finally signed the (pitiful,…

4 years ago

Jeff Bezos says you don’t deserve $2,000

  Jeff Bezos has a fortune of $194 billion. Just in the United States, over a third of a million…

4 years ago

Billionaires got a trillion. We get $600.

After months of doing nothing, the super Scrooge Congress finally provided a little help for poor and working people. We…

4 years ago

Why won’t Congress deliver badly needed stimulus checks?

"Stimulus bill and checks not likely to arrive before Biden takes office," Newsweek reported on Dec. 5.  On Dec. 2,…

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The war against street merchants

Jobless men sold apples during the Great Depression. Ninety years later, many city sidewalks are lined with street merchants trying…

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NYC postal workers rally

Postal workers and their supporters demonstrated across the country on Aug. 25. They were protesting the attacks on the postal…

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“Billionaire landlords have to go!”

Aug. 20 ― Over five hundred people came to New York City's public research library on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue this…

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Wrecking the post office and the election

From Harlem to Seattle, mail boxes are being removed by orders of Trump's handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy. Trump is…

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Unemployed Workers Committee launched to stop evictions and utility shutoffs

The Peoples Power Assembly is launching an Unemployed Workers Committee to Stop Evictions, Foreclosures and Utility Shutoffs. Its slogan is,…

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Election by coup?

With President Donald Trump ruling mainly by decree, there were many who thought his recent tweet about delaying the election…

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