Does the US Military Economy Help Workers? US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, in a speech on April 17, 2024, insists Americans should be grateful for the billions of dollars (60 billion, the latest “giveaway”) in funding for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel because the money, according to Mr. Austin, goes [...]
by Timothy Dirte Humankind is entering a new epoch – the epoch of the emergence of viable alternative forces against US economic and military hegemony. It is the beginning of the epoch of multipolarity. This new development in world history is objectively progressive for the international working class as another [...]
A strike wave has hit the United States in recent years with mixed results. After decades in retreat, the labor movement in the United States has had rumblings of becoming a militant force once again, something we haven’t seen since the early days of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [...]
Years ago, in the lead up to World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke on the rise of fascism in Europe, offering a wise warning to Americans: “Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations, not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown [...]
MAGA Communism has a murky origin. Part of its origin lies in the so-called “Make America Great Again (MAGA)” slogan originated during Ronald Reagan’s 1980 Presidential campaign and popularized by Donald Trump in his 2016 Presidential campaign. The “MAGA” movement espoused many right-wing populist ideas like the construction of a [...]
Opportunism has had an undisputed stranglehold on the labor movement for several decades since the overthrow of the USSR. A “United States of Europe” has been erected, just as Lenin warned. A new American empire has taken up the flag of the Third Reich, just as Foster warned. As a [...]
Cultural Pseudo-Marxism The term “Cultural Marxism” is frequently used in political discussions, but its meaning is obscure. Those on the Right claim that it signifies the infiltration of Western academia by Jewish Marxists from the Frankfurt School. They argue that their goal is to undermine the United States and Europe [...]
There are two problems with our unions today. On the one hand there is a systematic oppression of class-oriented voices in some unions which are tightly controlled by the Democrats. On the other hand, there is a growing frustration and reaction to the lack of democracy in our unions sometimes [...]
Workers’ living standards have declined by more than 8% in the Ukraine since the fascists took power in 2014: That is, the national income share of the lowest quintile of the population (mainly composed of wage workers) in proportion to the richest quintile (Q5/Q1), declined more than 8% from 2014 [...]
Spending on construction projects for manufacturing plants in the US has almost doubled over the past year in real dollars, reports the US Treasury Department (see Figure 1).[1] It appears that the US may be returning to an emphasis on manufacturing. Treasury says, “The boom is principally driven by construction [...]