Capitalism

Capitalism, Work

Accidents Will Happen — And That Is No Accident

Accidents will happen. Under any social system. People are imperfect. They make mistakes and those mistakes sometimes cause accidents. Some accidents may be a matter of pure ...

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Capitalism, News, Work

Slavery in the US Today: Operation Blooming Onion

You thought that slavery had been abolished in the United States? Earlier this year federal prosecutors completed Operation Blooming Onion. They uncovered a conspiracy to bring in ...

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Capitalism, Class, Economics, Work

A Novel That Makes Socialists

Robert Tressell’s The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a book that has made (or helped make) many socialists, at least in Britain. It has long been popular in our companion party, ...

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Capitalism, Class, Environment, Poetry

New Issue of Imagine

Our companion party to the north, the Socialist Party of Canada, has just issued the Winter 2021 issue of its quarterly journal, Imagine.

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Capitalism, Economics, healthcare, Technology

Captives of Coca-Cola

Why the people of San Cristobal in Mexico's Chiapas State drink so much Coca-Cola and what it does to them.

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Capitalism, Class, History, Politics, Socialism

Eugene Debs and the World Socialist Movement

A collection of quotations from the speeches and writings of Eugene Debs (1855—1926). He was a prominent trade union organizer, socialist writer and speaker.

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Capitalism

Crushed by Mammon

This picture is a work of the 19th-century British painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts. Mammon -- the power of money -- crushes the life and spirit out of the young boy and girl.

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Capitalism, History, Socialism

Has the Era of Social Revolution Arrived?

Our comrade Mike Schauerte recently recorded a half-hour talk with this title on the Discord system. To listen to the talk please follow the links.

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Capitalism, Class, History, Marxism

Principle One

One of the many things I love about the World Socialist Movement is how long it’s been around. The Socialist Party of Great Britain was founded in ...

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Capitalism, Class, History, media, Politics, Work

The Myth of the Middle Class

In the 1950s there arose the myth of America as a 'middle-class society.' How has this myth developed since then? What relation does it have to reality?

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