Beneath the manufactured culture wars and other artificial divides, millions of working people share the same basic concern: they can’t afford a decent life. A survey of more than 30,000 adults conducted by the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility and…
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The Trump administration has agreed to pay German energy giant RWE $1.2bn (£892m) to abandon its US offshore wind projects, freeing the company to redirect the money into fossil fuel expansion. RWE will surrender leases off the coasts of California…
The United States has added more than 40 Chinese entities to its so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List”, extending its campaign of economic warfare against China under the familiar cover of concern for human rights. China’s Ministry of…
As the United States endures another summer of dangerous heat, drought and flooding, more and more working people are recognising what they’re experiencing isn’t just bad luck. According to new polling by Data for Progress, 61% of likely voters believe…
Once again, the capitalist state has unmasked itself. On 12–13 September 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly removed a study from its website. This was no trivial bureaucratic update, but the suppression of evidence. The study, published by the…
Once again the masks have slipped from the faces of the capitalist profiteers, and once again the working masses are shown the true nature of capitalist “innovation.” Meta, that empire of digital surveillance, owned by the billionaire Zuckerberg, has been…
A Texas federal court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Tuesday December 3rd, blocking the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its associated regulations, which mandate U.S. business entities to report stakeholder information to the Treasury Department. Judge Amos L. Mazzant…
The US senate has approved a bill that will see TikTok banned in the US, unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells its stake in the US arm of the company. The bill has widespread support in the senate, with 79…
After weeks of strikes, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has reached a tentative agreement with Chrysler maker Stellantis. The deal will see the pay of the average worker rise by 25 percent, while the lowest paid workers will see…
Two years ago, a whistleblower revealed that Facebook knew that Instagram, which it owns, was causing significant harm to young people, predominantly teenage girls. Today, the company is being sued by dozens of US states for exploiting its users this…
