Poverty

Statement of Socialist Action National Committee: Coronavirus Threatens the Lives of Billions

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Poverty, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home

By James Fortin and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 21, 2019 As the devastating novel coronavirus (COVID-19) literally threatens the lives of billions of the earth’s people, two truths about the contagion remain unchallenged: All nations are ill-prepared for the arrival of the virus, and once it lands, despite herculean efforts in some cases, little can be done[…]

Puerto Ricans Protest Undistributed 2017 Supplies Unearthed by 2020 Quakes

February 7, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Government Corruption, Poverty, Protest, Puerto Rico

By Betsey Piette posted on Workers World, January 29, 2020 Still grappling with the aftermath of devastating earthquakes, Puerto Ricans reacted with protests when they learned Jan. 19 that massive amounts of vital material aid have been warehoused since 2017. The aid arrived after two major hurricanes struck the Puerto Rican archipelago that year. The donated aid included generators, emergency[…]

Oakland Moms 4 Housing Win, Reclaiming King’s Radical Legacy

February 6, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, Poverty

By Judy Greenspan posted on Workers World, January 30, 2020 January 20 was not only the day to honor the radical legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was also a day to acknowledge a victory for a group of Oakland mothers (#MomsHouse), who had been brutally evicted Jan. 14 from a house they “repossessed” in November.[…]

Solidarity With Moms for Housing

January 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Poverty, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2020 Black women in Oakland confronted the austerity regime head-on, by seizing the housing their families need. “Hopefully this tactic will spread and others will take the same action.” The four women in Oakland, California known as Moms 4 Housing have been evicted from the home they seized from unscrupulous speculators.[…]

Chicago Teachers Divided Over Narrow Strike Settlement

November 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Poverty, Racism, Resistance

By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, November 7, 2019 Twenty-five thousand Chicago teachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers Local 1, AFL-CIO, returned to work on October 31 following a divided vote of the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) 700-member Delegate Assembly (DA) to end the union’s 11-day strike. The vote to accept the five-year tentative contract was 60[…]

Drop the Term “Austerity” – Its the Race to the Bottom

October 8, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Poverty, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, September 26, 2019 In the corporate-organized Race to the Bottom, withdrawal of health care is a weapon to discipline workers and their families, as is the whole “austerity” regime. “Capital found a solution to falling profits with the promise of super-exploitation of labor in what used to be called the Third World.” Let’s[…]

Austerity and Militarism

June 29, 2019 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism, Imperial greed, Militarism, Police Corruption, Poverty, Socio-Economic Struggles, War and Peace

In the U.S. They are Never Called Human Rights Violations, but They Both Kill by Ajamu Baraka, June 19, 2019 Trump’s 2020 budget proposal reflects another significant increase in military spending along with corresponding cuts in spending by Federal agencies tasked with the responsibility for providing critical services and income support policies for working class and poor people. Trump’s call[…]

Black Mothers Dying in the U.S.

May 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Poverty, Racism, Women

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, May 8, 2019 Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power. “Racism condemns its Black and Native citizens to shorter and sicker life spans than prevail in much of what used to be called the Third World.” Of[…]

Haiti’s Unfolding Revolution Is Directly Linked to Venezuela’s

February 19, 2019 UNAC Editor Caribbean, Haiti, Poverty, Resistance, Revolution

Photo: Jovenel must leave, it is the refrain of the popular carnival carried by a furious music. The signs of circumstance, tree branches enliven the streets of the country from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel, Les Cayes to Saint-Marc, from Jérémie to Gonaïves ~Haiti Liberte (cropped) by Kim Ives, Published in Haiti Liberte, February 13, 2019 Chaos reigns in Haiti for a[…]

Re-Centering Anti-War and Anti-Imperialism as Working Class Issues on May 1st

May 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Labor Struggles, Poverty, Resistance

by Black Alliance for Peace, originally published on Black Agenda Report “We will never support U.S. imperialism in any of its adventures.” May 1st is recognized as International Workers’ Day throughout the world except in the most bourgeois of bourgeois nations — the United States. Yet, even though the capitalist oligarchy has tried to erase the day from the awareness[…]