Firstly, A Call for Support One Struggle has been offering solidarity from where we are in order to support Haitian workers and peasants organized with Batay Ouvriye for multiple years. We’ve started and supported various Rapid Response Network Campaigns to pressure factory owners and other bourgeois elements in Haiti to engage with workers’ demands and [...]
In the past months, Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin have been flooded by everyone from climate activists to dreamers asking, begging, for reforms and resolutions they promised during their campaigns. Both politicians have refused to acknowledge them, even when activists face them in a bathroom, airplane or yacht. Both democratic Senators raised hope among their [...]
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 [...]
I have become a new member of the 75 million gig workers in the United States. After being laid off from a company that was being poorly run by management, I was forced to enter this new system that is often confused with independence. I used to find joy in my career. It used to [...]
Poverty is not an accident. It isn’t “natural” or “relative,” and it doesn’t stem from stupidity, mismanagement, or corruption. Poverty is essential to the structure of any class-divided society and, in our current historical moment, is necessary for the function of capitalism and imperialism. Poverty is perpetrated by the ruling class and perpetuated with racism, [...]
Our radios play recordings of children’s screams and our newsfeeds are filled with endless images of bleak detention centers: six and seven year-olds in cages, on matts with emergency blankets, and younger toddlers are even legally barred from being touched or consoled after being ripped from their parents. Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy has set in [...]
*This article has been edited based on a member’s direct experience working for immigration reform, especially DACA. Imperialism is the natural expansion of capitalism. The constant need for growth and increased profits sends capitalists beyond national boundaries in search of new markets and lower production costs. […]