Subjects Archives: Inequality

CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’.

Hundreds of migrants have been illegally deported by the U.S. to these infamous prisons, currently there are approximately 110,000 prisoners across the country; approximately 85,000 of these prisoners have been arrested since the start of the state of exception, an emergency measure that has been renewed 36 times by the National Assembly since its promulgation in March 2022.

Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.

Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.

Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining affected communities together in a unified protest.

The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.

Facing an ongoing corruption scandal and rising measles cases, clearly the Alberta government is desperate for a distraction.

There are a million ways to slice and dice both a universal Medicare plan and also the transition, which will pose real problems. However, it is important any plan be comprehensive. That doesn’t mean it has to cover the plastic surgery needed to give people the Mar-a-Lago look, but it does need to cover areas like dental, vision, and hearing, which are excluded from traditional Medicare.

We’ve seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one.

As workers and socialists, Cuba’s struggle is our struggle.

CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s aid blockade.

Following is a fact sheet about how Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill cuts essential services and benefits for workers to give to the wealthy.

Prime minister says Israel has photographs of thousands of unclothed prisoners, an ‘indication’ of sufficient food, as experts warn of looming famine.

Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?

The Israeli and U.S. aid distribution maneuver sparked chaos among desperate, starving Palestinians and Israeli forces responded by killing at least five.

It has been five years since police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in the streets of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), and 26 others, many of whom were Adivasi residents, in an alleged encounter carried out under the guise of counterinsurgency operations in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh.

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful deception of the South African public by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation during their recent meeting with Donald Trump in Washington.

New Delhi’s escalation over the Indus River isn’t just environmental–it’s strategic, existential, and signals a new front in the war of attrition with Islamabad.