The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the economic plunge caused by COVID-19 and its economic impact are all crises of capitalism. Caused by the growing instability of the economy, the continual expansion of capital shrinks, and the economy busts resulting in sharp economic decline, unemployment, etc. Make no mistake, this is endemic to [...]
Drone Footage Shows Mass Coronavirus Graves On Hart Island In New York, Vice News // AP PHOTO/JOHN MINCHILLO In the fall of last year, before novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 was on everyone’s tongues, I was spending a lot of time in hospitals. I would leave the house as the sun was going up [...]
Hospitality and tourism are some of the largest employers in Miami, and it is the first industry to be severely crippled by the coronavirus outbreak. Since the beginning of March, this workforce has been experiencing layoffs and cut hours so drastic that it has changed the outlook of an entire industry in a matter of [...]
Join One Struggle in Tallahassee, FL for two events! In 2012, One Struggle traveled to Haiti to meet with textile workers organized with Batay Ouvriye (Workers' Struggle), an independent organization known throughout Haiti as a fierce, uncompromising movement dedicated to reconstructing Haiti in the interests of workers, peasants, and the poor. Following the trip OS set up [...]
Around the world, people are mobilizing, protesting, even revolting. The failings of capitalism and imperialism in its most recent form of neoliberal policies are clear - extreme inequality, austerity, privatization, exploitation and domination of people and planet. In Chile, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong and Haiti, record numbers of people have taken the streets [...]
We’re watching racists and xenophobes march in record numbers. We’re watching our planet get sold out for corporate gain. We’re watching our rights disappear. We tell ourselves the solution is to #votethemout, vote with our dollar, “make our voices heard” on social media or in the streets, and punch Nazis. But should we be [...]
There’s a lot out there that tries to explain what fascism is. Historians, academics, philosophers, and journalists are struggling to define the term now, as they did almost eighty years ago while actual fascist regimes were in power. Today, hate groups are seeping into popular culture with organizations like the Proud Boys, Identity Evropa [...]