Bill Onasch, a long term socialist and trade unionist died peacefully, after a long battle with cancer, in Kansas City on July 8. The purpose of this article is to look at what made my close friend such a remarkable comrade.
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Did supporting a Democrat help Cook County strikers?
The reality is that this strategy has failed. The person who the union leadership has been endorsing and donating to led the charge against the union.
Capitalism: Has the leopard changed its spots?
“Let me be clear: capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation.”, US President Biden tweeted when signing an executive order to expand competition across the economy and crack down on monopolistic practices…
Nicaragua: Why Ortega does not want to let go. The non-negotiable interests of the regime…
We reprint, in translation, the noted radical Uruguayan journalist Raúl Zibechi, who discusses how Ortega and the FSLN, once the focal point of a generation on the left in Latin America and the world, have become corrupt authoritarians.
“Toni, Toni, Toni… Full of Baloney!”
Saturday’s rally highlighted many of the themes of the strike. There were about two hundred, mainly African American, strikers at the rally. There was great pride that not only had Stroger Hospital struck, but workers in all parts of the County system were also out.
Covid-19 – G7 Cornwall: Vaccine apartheid maintained!
The price of this vaccine apartheid? More than 15,000 deaths per day officially recorded worldwide. In India alone, at the peak of the second wave, for several weeks, up to 4,000 people died every day.
Burma/Myanmar: From civil disobedience to armed resistance – what new Burma can emerge from today’s challenges?
The civil disobedience movement has gone underground and forms of self-defense are spreading throughout the country, not just in peripheral areas populated by ethnic minorities.
Unveiling The Prophet
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.
Elections in México: Obradorismo in its labyrinth
Even with the support of the most influential and backward core of the ruling classes and the media, the right wing managed to fight to a draw, when all were predicting a resounding defeat like the one of 2018.
How much workers’ resistance is there today?
There are some long hard strikes and lockouts taking place. There are not a lot of them, but they deserve our support and solidarity. They take place in the overall context of a low level of class struggle.
Imperialism meets in Cornwall
Crowding into the holiday resort of Carbis Bay, the G7 leaders will not be joined by the likes of China or Russia, who are excluded from the deliberations but as hosts to this jamboree, the UK has invited like-minded leaders from Australia, India, South Africa, and South Korea.
Pakistan’s private vaccine sales highlight rich-poor divide
An inoculation push, plagued with limited supplies and red tape, makes doses available to those who can pay for them. In a country with a struggling economy, most can’t.
Their occupations and ours…
The aim of the January 6 assault was to nullify the popular vote through a violent intervention during the Electoral college ratification… its aim was not to fight for more democracy but to impose the will of a minority whose primary goal was to reestablish white supremacy in the U.S.
Mexico, June 6: Elections amidst bourgeois struggles and tragedies
The elections to be held on June 6 offer the workers and the people of Mexico practically nothing. There is not a single candidate among the almost 90 percent of the current deputies seeking re-election who truly responds to the deepest interests of the popular masses.
Chile: Towards the new constitution. The triumph of the left and the independents
The diversity in the composition of the constituent assembly not only adds legitimacy to the process, but also “leads to better decisions”, because “having different points of view will allow there to be less bias in deliberation.”
