By JAMES FORTIN Now that the COVID-19 contagion has spread to the four corners of the globe, the unpreparedness of the capitalist state and the outright disregard by the ruling class for the fate of the working people of the United States has come into full view. Underlying a perfect-storm scenario is the certain emerging…
By NICK BAKER In his speech “On Revolutionary Medicine,” Che Guevara said, “The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.” While the U.S. damns its population with reluctant and haphazard “free market” responses to a global pandemic that demands comprehensive,…
By JOHN POTTINGER Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap off tall buildings in a single bound! Superman? No, it’s the U.S. and the world capitalist economies. Or is it? As more states and more counties mandate stay-in-place orders more and more people are out of jobs to the…
By JEFF MACKLER Bernie Sanders, face to face on March 16 with his often-proclaimed “friend” Joe Biden, could only assert that “Joe,” voted for the 2003 Iraq War. True! Sanders scored a debater’s point that a well-scripted and lying Biden brushed off in a few words. Sanders left it at that. Television debates are rarely…
Here we reprint a Socialist Action analysis of the 2008 Wall Street bailout. Today, once again, the U.S. ruling class is desperately trying to prop up its crisis-ridden capitalist system. We are already seeing the same “socialism for the rich” that this article pointed to the last time, as trillions of dollars are put into…
By LISA LUINENBERG President Trump has taken yet more drastic steps in his ever-expanding war against immigrants and refugees over the past month. Citing “national security” issues, Trump quickly moved to expand his much-maligned travel ban, adding six new Muslim-majority countries – Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania and Sudan – to the list, now totaling…
By JAMES FORTIN and JEFF MACKLER As the devastating novel coronavirus (COVID-19) literally threatens the lives of billions of the earth’s people, two truths about the contagion remain unchallenged: All nations are ill-prepared for the arrival of the virus, and once it lands, despite herculean efforts in some cases, little can be done to stop…
