Capitalism

U.S. Out of Venezuela and Iran!

October 13, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Capitalism, Caribbean, Colonialism, Featured, Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees, Statement, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Hegemony, Venezuela, War Crimes, War on the Poor

Statement by U.S. Peace Council, published on October 13, 2025 END THE FOREVER WARS ABROAD AND AT HOME The U.S. Peace Council condemns the U.S. government’s escalating wars abroad and its deepening war against working-class, Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and other oppressed and vulnerable communities here at home. The same imperialist system that wages aggression against Venezuela and Iran intensifies[…]

Homelessness – a Huge Failure of Capitalism

August 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Imperialism, Poverty, The War at Home

by Jim McMahon, published on Workers World, August 13, 2025 Seattle — Homelessness is being produced every day by the U.S./Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza. As Palestinians’ homes are reduced to rubble, the crimes of capitalism become more obvious to all. Wars and economic interventions of U.S. imperialism have caused the havoc of homelessness and migration across the[…]

Daniel Ortega is No Bukele

June 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Socialism

by Jill Clark-Gollub, published on Black Agenda Report, June 11, 2025 Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances. Opposition media from both Nicaragua and El Salvador, along with the Washington Post, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, all vilify Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by equating him with[…]

Capitalism as Self Regenerating Wealth

May 24, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Democracy and Consent, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Wealth and Power

by Greg Godels, published on ZZ’s Blog, May 22, 2025 Gabriel Zucman is a French-born economist who teaches at California, Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics. Zucman’s academic specialization is in wealth inequality, using tax data to track the stratification in wealth in the US and the rest of the world. A student of famed inequality expert, Thomas Piketty,[…]

Millions tell Trump, Musk: ‘Hands off!’

April 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Capitalism, Imperialism, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, The War at Home, War on the Poor

By Martha Grevatt, posted on Workers World, April 7, 2025 Nearly everyone in the U.S. has been negatively affected by the Trump/Musk team’s cuts to federal jobs, veterans’ care, schools, libraries, science programs, Medicaid, the Women, Infants and Children program, heating aid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and more. There are looming threats to Social Security and disability benefits. The[…]

The Truth About Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis”

March 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, CIA, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Mass action, The War at Home, U.S. Hegemony, US Government Action, US Politics

By John Pottinger and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, February 23, 2025 The Truth Abut Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis” A Marxist Assessment That President Trump has dismantled or significantly gutted some dozen or more government agencies, frozen the allocation of trillions of dollars in the federal budget allocated to run the country, fired multiple[…]

Congo Activists to NBA: Black Lives Matter in DRC, Cut Ties With Rwanda

February 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Congo, DRC, Genocide, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, February 19, 2025 As Rwandan troops tightened their grip on the capitals of DRC’s Kivu Provinces, activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close collaboration with the Rwandan regime. Activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close relationship with Rwanda outside the NBA All Star Game at San Francisco’s Chase Center on Sunday, February[…]

Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Natural Disaster, Prisoners, The War at Home, War on the Poor

Black Alliance for Peace Statement, January 9, 2025 The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it’s easy to focus solely on the[…]

South Korea’s Problem: The United States

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Imperialism, Resistance, South Korea, US Foreign Policy

Editorial by Workers World, December 18, 2024 Since his Dec. 3 attempt to impose martial law, mass demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people involving the most important labor unions and popular organizations from around the country came out in the streets of Seoul demanding that South Korean President Yoon Seok-Yeol be deposed. After a popular rebellion repulsed Yoon’s Dec.[…]

No Tears for Slain CEO: Compassion ‘Out of Network’

December 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Healthcare, The War at Home

Editorial, Workers World, December 10, 2024 Normally when someone is shot dead, human beings feel sad for the victim. But in the case of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, killed before dawn on the streets of Manhattan on Dec. 4, a large majority of public comments are that empathy is “out of network.” For example, Anthony Zenkus, a lecturer[…]