The UAW and the fight for a new contract

Autoworkers have endured decades of eroding wages and worsening working conditions as the Big Three auto companies—General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis—have shored up their profits by taking it out of the hides of the workers. But these workers are saying “enough is enough!” As a result, 150,000 union auto workers are gearing up for strike action in the US, as their contract with these companies approaches a September 14 expiration date.

Wildfires devastate Hawaii: Capitalism’s latest climate horror

The Hawaiian island of Maui has been devastated by wildfires, leaving at least 80 dead at the time of writing. The inferno has been described as the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the state of Hawaii. But in fact, there was little natural about this tragedy. It was an accident waiting to happen, facilitated by the capitalism-created climate crisis, and disproportionately affecting poorer neighborhoods on an island treated as a luxurious plaything by the wealthy.

Spotlight on class struggle: Actors and writers join forces

It turns out the biggest drama of the summer isn’t Barbie or Oppenheimer, it’s the labour struggle unfolding in Hollywood. It’s a team-up between beleaguered writers and actors against a supervillain as bad as any you’d see in an action movie: the big studios and streamers, including Disney, Netflix, and Amazon.

U.S. Supreme Court overturns affirmative action: Fight for jobs and education for all!

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday against the legality of affirmative action admissions practices at colleges and universities. Ruling on two distinct cases, the court declared the admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina to be unlawful.

Divide and conquer: The class interests behind the wave of transphobic legislation

In the first four months of this year, 541 anti-trans bills have been introduced across the U.S.A. The timing of this transphobic frenzy—ramped up in legislatures and in the media just as a new economic slump threatens to destabilize the country—is no accident.

U.S. economy on collision course with debt ceiling

The deadline for reaching a deal on the US debt ceiling is just days away, and Capitol Hill is deadlocked. On or around 1 June, the federal government will no longer have the money to continue paying its bills, potentially resulting in an unprecedented default that would send catastrophic shockwaves across the world economy.

Trouble in Hollywood: Writers Guild on strike

Hollywood is known as a “dream factory,” but for film and television writers it’s become simply a factory like any other, with all the drudgery and exploitation that entails.

The Pentagon leaks: Utter humiliation for U.S. imperialism

U.S. officials are reeling from a major leak of over 100 pages of highly sensitive intelligence, uploaded to the internet by persons unknown, and first shared by gamers on Discord.

United States: Trump’s arrest deepens the crisis of the regime

In yet another sign of the growing instability of US bourgeois politics, criminal charges have been filed against a former president for the first time in American history.

West points finger at Ukraine over Nord Stream sabotage: ‘With friends like these…’

The plot thickens! A month after acclaimed American journalist Seymour Hersh released a bombshell report, accusing the CIA of masterminding the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany last year, two articles simultaneously appeared in major U.S. and German news publications linking Ukraine to the attack. Not only that, but they claim western secret services knew all along! What are we to make of this?