Youth speak out against the resumption of student loan payments
Tens of millions of borrowers will now be burdened with an additional monthly expense amid growing impoverishment and worsening living conditions.
Trévon Austin•
New York City area paralyzed by heavy flooding
New York City and surrounding areas were deluged Friday by over 6 inches of rain in 24 hours, crippling infrastructure and flooding mass transit, schools and homes with little or no warning from the city’s Democratic Party administration.
Mark Witkowski, Sandy English•
Homelessness rises in the UK as rents skyrocket
According to the government’s figures, loss of private tenancy—including through the landlord selling or re-letting the property or increasing the rent—was the largest single cause of homelessness in the first three months of the year, affecting 39 percent more households than the year before.
Dennis Moore, Thomas Scripps•
Las Vegas-area hospitality workers vote by 95 percent to strike casinos at mass rally
On Tuesday, thousands of workers gathered at the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV to vote to strike major casino and resort operators, MGM, Caesars and Wynn/Encore.
Hong Jian•
Patrick Martin•
Kevin Reed•
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May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
Nick Beams•
Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
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The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
David Walsh•
The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
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