Anti-Trump sentiment gives Biden the presidency
Margarito Díaz | Issue: November | December 2020
Workers across America are hurting. U.S. workers are undergoing, a period of anxiety, desperation, uncertainty and a deep divide.
Poverty
Vote Trump out! The poor can no longer afford the rich
From the Editors | Issue: October 2020
We must begin to take our country back from Wall Street and the corporatists, whether Democratic or Republican.
Rebellion spreads! New awakening!
Nacho González, El Jaranero | Issue: July 2020
We are beginning to realize that we can’t depend on our failing political system to fix our problems. We are going to have to do it ourselves.
Líderes Campesinas
Irene de Barraicua and Marco E. López | Issue: May | June 2020
California farmworkers are considered “essential” to the U.S. economy, they are also the most vulnerable link in our nation’s food supply chain.
Capitalist pyramid scheme may come crashing down
Dave Ransom | Issue: May | June 2020
One of Europe’s biggest capitalists, industrialist Jacob Wallenberg explained: “There will be no recovery,” he said. “There will be social unrest.”
Los Angeles: “Reclaiming our homes’’
Steve Teixeira and Xochitl Palomera | Issue: May | June 2020
Just before spring, something new bloomed. Homeless people and their neighbors in Los Angeles launched a campaign to take over vacant state-owned homes.
Coronavirus: For-profit economy breaks down, humanity first is the demand
Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: May | June 2020
The pandemic has created a crisis of unheard-of proportions, massive layoffs of workers, and the near total shutdown of the U.S. capitalist economy.
Community unites with homeless moms against housing speculators
Mereia Shaw, Monica Cross and Kimberly King | Issue: March 2020
In Oakland, a concrete battle for housing as a human right has broken out led by Moms4 Housing, a collective of insecurely housed mothers.
EDITORIAL: Zero tolerance policy towards migrants and refugees, now it’s been proposed for the Homeless
From the Editors | Issue: January 2020
Trump administration proposes to round up houseless people and put them in concentration camps or to banish them to the desert.
EDITORIAL: The Impeachment of President Trump
From the Editors | Issue: January 2020
What is at stake is whom government serves. Is it Wall Street and corporations? or is it humanity?
M.A.S.K. leads against poverty and violence
Maria Pike | Issue: October | November 2019
Someone said that such work was “a waste of time.” Maria Pike, a MASK activist and mother who has lost a child to gun violence, reiterated her reply.
‘The unwanted ones’
José Torres | Issue: October | November 2019
The rich capitalists blame us for their economic problems by agitating a section society. These are lies meant to divide us, and they continue in power.
The paradox of immigration in Puerto Rico, U.S.A.
Pedro Angel Rivera | Issue: October | November 2019
Fighting ignorance fostered through xenophobia, racism, and the immoral and hypocritical anti-immigrant policies promoted by capitalism in Puerto Rico.
“Renuncia Ricky”: A sign of an emerging era in Puerto Rico?
Pedro Angel Rivera | Issue: October | November 2019
Following the Renuncia Ricky uprising, people’s assemblies are mushrooming in cities and towns across Puerto Rico.
Let’s fight like hell for the USA we want!
From the Editors | Issue: October | November 2019
Our country has crossed a point of no return. It is either worsening division, fascist repression and killings or we unite based on what we have in common.
The 20/32 movement – the end of labor peace in Mexico
Jose Torres and Manuel Torres | Issue: May | June 2019
Workers understand that they have no ties to capital or to any political party that wants to take over the movement and take it off its natural course!
Renters Unite in California’s Santa Clara County
Dave Ransom | Issue: May | June 2019
Grassroots members and leaders from six Santa Clara County tenants’ unions convened to organize the South Bay Tenants Assembly in mid-March in San Jose.
Chicago election results: People want change!
Chris Mahin | Issue: May | June 2019
CHICAGO — The winds of change blowing across America have hit the Windy City with gale force. Chicagoans are sick of the status quo.
May Day 2019
Adamarys and Rich Monje | Issue: May | June 2019
In 1886, workers were protesting exploitation and demanded an 8-hour workday. Today, workers continue to protest exploitation but in other areas.
Why the exodus from Central America?
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
The United States has played and still plays an active role in creating the conditions that force people to leave.
Shutdown: Government makes war on workers
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
This shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms. – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The America that can be
From the Editors | Issue: February | March 2019
Immigrants and U.S. workers face the same enemy: the capitalist class, whose only solution is to ‘divide and conquer.’
In Memory of Alonzo
Yolanda Catzalco | Issue: November | December 2018
May God bless the vulnerable, the disabled, the elderly, the children. May government officials elected by the people provide for peoples’ needs.
Migrant caravan
Laura Garcia | Issue: November | December 2018
We the workers of the United Sates, a country of immigrants, must fight to keep the gates open for our sisters and brothers.
A historic moment in México: the election of López Obrador
María de la Luz Arriaga | Issue: September | October 2018
The triumph of AMLO is the triumph of social movements, which for the last 30 years have been fighting for change in the country from the left.
Mexico: The people face the future with Lopez Obrador
Margarito Díaz | Issue: September | October 2018
The Mexican people have taken a first step in the fight for justice and equality. Build new infrastructure and institutions and govern.
Rise of the grassroots
from the Editors | Issue: September | October 2018
Fascism and the breakup of the old political party systems in the United States and Mexico resulting from pitting workers against high-tech robotics.
Rev. Edward Pinkney wins again
Rev. Edward Pinkney | Issue: June | July 2018
BENTON HARBOR, MI — Let the truth be told. I, Rev. Edward Pinkney was charged in Berrien County, Michigan with five felony counts of election forgery under Michigan Compiled Law (MCL) 937, and six misdemeanor counts of making a false statement in a certificate of recall of a recall petition under MCL 168.957 for […]
‘Big data’ makes enough-for-all economy possible
Dave Ransom | Issue: June | July 2018
Most important question — Who will own the robots? Now for the good news. Speaking to a Los Angeles policy institute recently, a prominent Chinese legal scholar, Feng Xiang, concluded that artificial intelligence (AI) is “the most momentous challenge” facing society today. Harvard-trained Feng is a professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, China’s top technology university […]
Half of jobs can be automated now
Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: June | July 2018
While the oligarchy debates, el pueblo pays the price “What are my grandkids going to do?” — David Patterson, winner of 2018 Touring Award. Even a winner of the year’s top prize in computing worries about oncoming joblessness in a society that rewards only work for pay. Google’s David Patterson hopes we figure it out […]
In the hard struggle of revolution
Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: June | July 2018
We are in a worldwide revolution that dwarfs the American Revolution of 1776. Despite the din and chatter of sex scandals, probes of foreign meddling in our elections, saber-rattling over North Korea, trade wars with China, destabilization of the Middle East and support of murderous regimes around the world, the relentless attack on our […]
The best of times, or the worst of times — our choice
Dave Ransom | Issue: April | May 2018
“It will soon be obvious that half our tasks can be done better at almost no cost by AI (artificial intelligence) and robots,” wrote venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee to the technology community recently. “This will be the fastest transition humankind has experienced,” he said, “and we’re not ready for it . . . not ready […]
Robots come to the garment trade
Dave Ransom | Issue: April | May 2018
Ever since the industrial revolution took making clothes out of the cottage, the textile industry — spinning yarn, weaving cloth, and making garments — has provided hot, dirty, low-wage jobs that enriched only the owners and their financiers. Whether the work was done by the children of England’s “dark, satanic mills,” by farm girls […]
In memory of a comrade, a veteran fighter for a better world: Juan Torres
José Torres and Manuel Torres | Issue: April | May 2018
A veteran comrade, Juan Torres, passed away in January 2018. He was born and raised in the Rio Grande “Valley of Tears.” Juan labored in the fields during his youth as an adult In the Valley and in the summers migrated north. After graduating from high school, Juan joined the Marines and achieved the […]
Texas: As we battle forward unity will be our only weapon
Jose Torres and Manuel Torres | Issue: February | March 2018
Unity is our only weapon as we battle forward for clean and safe water, and the means to feed and clothe our families. Unity is also our only weapon to fight for our democratic rights —all of which are at peril with SB-4. Texas unemployment is the lowest in decades and one of the lowest […]
Stars acknowledge campesina support
Dave Ransom | Issue: February | March 2018
Alianza letter sparked Hollywood’s Time’s Up organization dedicated to low-income women who suffer sexual attack or harassment More than a thousand women have signed Hollywood’s “Time’s Up” letter against sexual abuse — including stars like Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Eva Longoria, and Meryl Streep. They pay homage to the […]
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, stands with Hollywood actors against sexual assault
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas Latina | Issue: February | March 2018
Even though we work in very different environments, we share a common experience of being preyed upon by individuals who have the power to hire, fire, blacklist and otherwise threaten our economic, physical and emotional security. Editor’s note: On Nov. 12, members of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas Latina wrote a letter of solidarity […]
Toward the Chicago Poor People’s Conference in 2018
From the editors | Issue: February | March 2018
Basing ourselves in the long history for justice and on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, we announce our plan to build citywide organizations in Chicago around the following five-point basic agenda. These five points are not meant to fully represent all our areas of concern, but they serve as a unifying beginning […]
We need the Poor People’s Conference to unify across Chicago
Andy Willis | Issue: February | March 2018
I spoke with Carlos Castro from the Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt Park about the upcoming Chicago Poor Peoples Conference. Carlos is a longtime community organizer and activist. I asked him why we needed such a conference. Carlos Castro: With all the abuse from the police department in the city, lack of housing, with the […]
‘People are freaking out!’
Dave Ransom | Issue: February | March 2018
Time to get ready, there’s a change a’coming “People are freaking out,” a Massachusetts auto mechanic told the Washington Post in December, describing the reaction among other mechanics to the oncoming end of their jobs. “Ninety percent of our industry has done nothing — absolutely nothing — to prepare.” What he says is true of […]
More jobs are going to the robots
Dave Ransom | Issue: February | March 2018
Car mechanics, drivers, real estate agents, security guards – is the last human work being homeless? Are you a car mechanic, a real estate agent or a security guard? Do you drive a delivery van, a taxi or a semi-truck? Are any of these your backup plan for keeping body and soul together? […]
NAFTA — the way corporate America exploits Mexico
Cathleen Williams | Issue: February | March 2018
Bi-National Conference chides Democratic leadership, as well as Republicans NAFTA is not about trade. That message resounded throughout the Bi-National Conference. Instead, it is about the complete corporate penetration and domination of Mexican and Central American society and economy, as corporate America shifts factories and services to Mexico, exploits its desperate work force and blames […]
‘Cancel NAFTA! Tear Down the Wall!’
Cathleen Williams | Issue: February | March 2018
Bi-National Conference brings together unions and workers from the United States and Mexico “I arrived in this country when I was eight years old. My parents were peasants in Mexico. In 1994, when the NAFTA agreement privatized the lands [the ejidos] in Mexico, they had no choice but to migrate to the United […]
What is tax reform? It is a transfer of wealth, a theft!
From the editors | Issue: February | March 2018
Tax reform is what Trump signed into law in December and many legislators who supported and voted for it are now planning to seek re-election in 2018 and beyond. Most people in the United States do not know what it was all about! Lobbyists and the Treasury Department are still trying to decipher it. Basically, […]
Hurricane María has changed the face of Puerto Rico forever
Juanita Irazarry | Issue: November | December 2017
The physical infrastructure of the island will eventually be repaired. And much of it likely will be better than the decaying and outdated power grid that was already struggling before the hurricane. But the big question is: Who will the improvements be for? Significant numbers of Puerto Ricans were already moving to the States […]
Section 8 vouchers for all who qualify!
from the Editors | Issue: November | December 2017
Food and water are humanity’s first priority. Clothing and a roof over your head come next. In human — humane — society, these are fundamental rights. We do our best to assure that everybody has these basics. In a mass society, that’s what government is for — or at least what it should be for. […]
In Los Angeles, 600,000 expected to apply for just 2,400 Section 8 vouchers
Dave Ransom | Issue: November | December 2017
Housing emergency much larger than the 90,000 living on the streets Officials expect more than 600,000 Angelenos to apply for just 2,400 Section 8 housing vouchers later this month. That’s all that will become available when they open the waiting list for the first time since 2004. People at the bottom of the […]
The right to stay with our families!
from the Editors | Issue: November | December 2017
An injury to one, is an injury to all America was built by immigrants from all over the world. This includes those forced into slavery and brought against their will. It includes the Native Americans who were first to arrive. Oppression, exploitation, and brutality have been part of this history, and they continue. […]
Trump’s immigration strategy: betting on people’s misinformation
Dave Ransom | Issue: September | October 2017
Most don’t know that you can’t migrate to the U.S. legally from Mexico When the Trump administration launched the most recent U.S. attack on “illegal immigrants,” particularly Mexicans, it bet on the ignorance of many Americans to make its charges believable and frightening. After all, somebody doing something illegal is a criminal, right? […]
Do the workers have leadership?
Baltazar Ávila | Issue: July 2017
It is well known by economists and specialists in the field that capitalism has entered a final phase. Its markets have been exhausted. Its raw materials have been exhausted. Its countries have revolted. The mass production of goods no longer finds enough buyers. Poverty grows while wealth becomes increasingly concentrated. Today, only eight mega-millionaires have […]