Nearly 48 million people in the US—including 14 million children—don’t get enough to eat, according to 2024 statistics from the USDA. Just under 40 million are enrolled in SNAP, also known as food stamps.
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China Sets the Agenda at the Xi-Trump Summit
Concretely speaking, little or nothing was achieved at the “G2” summit between China and America last week. No shift from China on Iran, no shift on tariffs, no shift on rare earths, nor on Taiwan. But in the relations of imperialist powers, the intangibles of prestige and appearance can be decisive, just as between two sets of gangsters trying to call each other’s bluff.
As a Nurse, I Can’t Watch “The Pitt”
I was a brand-new nurse in May 2020, just after the second wave of Covid hit. On my first shift, I was handed a paper bag with a single N95 mask to last the entire week. I wore that same mask for 12-hour shifts, night after night.
What Epstein’s 2008 Arrest Says About Capitalist “Justice”
Palm Beach, Florida is one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound is on one end, and less than two miles up the beach, in a private cul-de-sac, sits the mansion that Epstein purchased in 1990. There, he developed a system of recruiting and grooming vulnerable underage girls from nearby working-class neighborhoods to be sexually exploited.
Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Military Budget: Warfare, not Healthcare!
To pay for more wars, Trump wants to slash domestic programs by 10%, or $73 billion. His proposed cuts include $5 billion from various healthcare programs, $8.5 billion from public schools, and $5 billion from medical research, among other things.
Trump and the Decay of US Bureaucracy
The character of the capitalist state’s administrators may seem to depend on the peculiarities of individual personalities. But beneath the surface, larger historical forces are at work.
“A Lot of People Feel Betrayed”: Iran War Drives Millions out of the MAGA Camp
Bold predictions were put forward in the aftermath of Trump’s 2024 electoral victory. Trump’s re-election signified, according to many, a fundamental cultural shift in America.
Millions of Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse—A Mass Workers’ Party Has Never Been More Viable
After Trump was re-elected the liberal media was hysterical about a supposed “shift to the right” in the US population. Now, more than one in five Trump voters are not planning to vote Republican in 2028.
“All You Had To Do Was Pay Us Enough To Live”: Warehouse Arson Vents Class Rage
“A lot of people are going to understand,” Chamel Abdulkarim reportedly told his girlfriend over the phone just moments after burning down the 1.2 million square foot Kimberly Clark distribution center where he worked.
The Rise and Fall—and Rise—of American Populism
The MAGA coalition is fracturing under the impact of Trump’s betrayals. As “right populism” goes into crisis, its mirror opposite is rearing its head.
“Tax the Rich” Initiatives Gain Steam on the West Coast
Requiring the wealthiest capitalists to put a greater share of their yearly income towards fund social services would be a welcome development, but can these “tax the rich” initiatives really make the billionaires pay?
While “Epic Fury” Blunders Abroad, Epstein Fury Boils at Home
Only days before the US ruling class attacked Iran, they were reeling from the fallout of the Epstein scandal. They were all implicated.
The Communist: The 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.