In the world economy, not all sectors are created equal. Industries farther up on the supply chain waterfall resources, raw materials, and components to the rest. The energy sector underpins all industrial production and transportation.
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How a Workers’ Government Can End the Climate Crisis
Capitalism is killing the planet. As of 2024, the world has already warmed 1.3℃ above the 20th century average. An increase to 2℃ would cause one billion excess deaths over the next century. Every year, the ruling class organizes summits and...
20 Years Since Hurricane Katrina: How the Capitalists Left a City to Rot
In August and September 2005, New Orleans was reduced to barbaric conditions. Nearly 2,000 people died, and 1.5 million lost their homes. This was a result of the criminal negligence of the ruling class.
DEI and “Green” Initiatives Were Always about Corporate Profits
We don’t need to choose between competing capitalist factions. We need to turn the frustration fueling the culture war against the real enemy: the capitalist class.
Trump Picks Oil and Gas Industry Darling to Lead EPA
Trump’s nomination of Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA is a direct attack—not on some abstract, faraway “wilderness”—but on the health and safety of all American workers and the very habitability of this planet.
The Hellfire of Capitalism Engulfs Los Angeles
Six wildfires are raging out of control in and around Los Angeles. The climate crisis and the inadequate, negligent response to its resulting disasters share the same root cause: the decrepit and senile capitalist system.
Capitalist Greed and Climate Catastrophe Cause Dire IV Shortages
As capitalism continues its terminal decline, disruptions in production and distribution of critical healthcare and medical supplies are increasingly common.
COP29: The Pantomime Begins
This year’s COP summit is off to a farcical start, with the head of the conference caught brokering lucrative fossil fuel deals, and many world leaders not even bothering to show up at all!
Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Billions for War, Pennies for Disaster Relief
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the latest in a series of humanitarian disasters across the South. The ruling class has billions for war, but when it comes to disaster relief, it claims its pockets are empty.
Hawaii under Attack from Real Estate Parasites
The Discovery Land Company is plotting to build an expansive golf course, clubhouse, and around 900 luxury housing units in Southern Maui, which would create “an enclave for the ultrawealthy.”
Capitalism Is Wiping Out Coral Reefs
Acidification of the oceans is killing coral reefs and threatening global food supply. The only way to stop this deadly trend is to remove the profit motive from the fossil fuel industry.
Double the Wildfires, Half the Firefighters
While extreme wildfire events have doubled in the last two decades due to climate change, our capacity to fight these fires has nearly halved.
The Communist: Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.