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 [...]