Lee Brown explains how Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Coronavirus and the war on the working class
Capitalists and the ‘concerned billionaires’ of the world are clamouring to ignore the health professionals and restore the accumulation process immediately, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
California worker
MARY ADOSSIDES of the London May Day Organising Committee calls on all to join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Although Musk’s cuts left a massive funding hole for reactionary projects ranging from subversive TV stations to hip-hop music, NATASHA HICKMAN warns that the money tap to anti-Cuban agitators will never be shut off under Trump
Mountains of research show that online hardcore material harms children by direct exposure and often indirectly - by those men porn inspires. Yet there are still no simple measures like age and content regulation in place, writes JOHN GREEN
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ACCORDING to Bloomberg News, the billionaire hedge fund and private equity fund managers who met President Donald on Tuesday March 24 “are getting impatient with the national economic shutdown caused by coronavirus…”
They urged that workers be released to return to their jobs from the government lockdown.
The “concerned” billionaires, along with the president, do not want “the cure to be worse than the problem.”
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