International Socialism Project

As anti-choice policymakers across the country seek to severely restrict reproductive freedom, Republican lawmakers in at least four states this week advanced bills banning or limiting abortion access.

Heidi Chow of the Jubilee Debt Campaign decried the $700-per-patient price the U.S. government paid for molnupiravir as “another example of Big Pharma reaping billions from public investment into research by charging extortionate, rip-off prices for lifesaving Covid drugs.”

Right now, both Parties are readying to give over $50 billion of your tax money to the very profitable under-taxed computer chip industry companies like Intel and Nvidia, so they can make more profit-building plants in the U.S.

Still under fire from human rights advocates after appealing a court order to stop using the Covid-19 pandemic as justification for expelling asylum-seeking families, the Biden administration on Saturday confirmed that it is ramping up deportations to Haiti and elsewhere.

In 1999, after spending 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit and within hours of execution, activists and attorneys won a stay of execution giving time for investigators to find the people who did the crime.

Biden’s “limited achievements must be put in context of what both science and justice require to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and extinction crises,” said the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund.

“The parliamentarian offers advice which the president and the Senate are free to take or reject. This is Biden throwing the undocumented under the bus and claiming, wrongly, he has no other choice.”

This is the example of ruling class arrogance and class hatred that Ellie Kemper was involved with. It’s good that she apologized. It will be even better when American workers follow the examples of the 1877 strikers that the Prophets hated so much.

The claim that Covid 19 is the fault of Asians is the new refrain in anti-Asian racism. Trump began to sound this note in a series of rallies in the spring of last year.

Although there is no way to predict the future of struggle, it would be wrong to dismiss the Derek Chauvin conviction as meaningless, whatever the intent of the prosecutors or police witnesses.

Asian American leaders are warning that a deepening geopolitical confrontation between the US and China is contributing to heightened suspicion, prejudice and violence against their communities in ways that could continue to intensify even after the pandemic begins to subside.

 The commentators tell us that with Covid rates declining, the economy is bound to improve. However, for large parts of the working class, we are by no means out of the woods.

This is not just an attempt to divide public sector workers from private sector workers. It shows a deeper thorn in the side of the ruling class

Many jobs are never going to comeback. This is not just the case in small businesses that have gone under. Capital is using the pandemic to reorganize itself.

The following is the first chapter of Ahmed Shawki’s Black Liberation and Socialism (2005). Footnotes have been removed. Other chapters of this book will be posted in the coming weeks.   “Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. […]