Congresswoman Tlaib introduces bill to stop politicians from funnelling billions of American tax dollars to same defense contractors many of them are invested in and taking campaign donations from.
UAW President Shawn Fain addresses why the expansion of the strike and the growing support globally and nationally in two venues. Workers are fighting to get their fair share at a time when the profits of automakers are soaring. The challenge is where we're going to go as a country.
The final debt ceiling agreement will harm vulnerable people and the planet by imposing new work requirements on aid recipients and approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Nearly 40 progressives in Congress voted against it.
The recent bank failures – and the government bank bailouts – raise serious questions. Where is the bailout for the people? And why do we keep perpetuating a failing bank system?
Our only realistic path away from having to bail [banks] out over and over again is to nationalise large parts of the banking system. They should be run as publicly owned utilities.
The U.S. Treasury Department will exhaust its ability to pay its bills unless the current $31.4 trillion cap on borrowing is raised or suspended. A gigantic, bloated military budget and massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires has created the crisis. The debt limit has to be raised with expansion, not any cuts, to programs that benefit the poor, hungry, homeless, and disabled.
In 2014, corporate money bought Bruce Rauner the office of governor in the very troubled state of Illinois. Rauner’s pro-business, anti-union agenda and his refusal to raise revenues ...
The 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive in our country’s history. This is no surprise, given the economic, moral, and political crisis we face ...
According to a famous story, car manufacturer Henry Ford and labor leader Walter Reuther toured a new automated engine production plant during the mid-1950s....
This society is dying right before our eyes. Capitalism has advanced to the stage where human labor is becoming obsolete. The micro-chip processor, introduced into ...
It is not a choice made, this birth. It is the direct result of the implantation of injustices, fertilized by greed and unconcern, that impregnates certain ...
Tenants and members of the homeless community protested early in the morning outside the hearing of the California Senate Committee on Transportation and ...
Help get the People’s Tribune out to homeless organizations and places where the homeless gather!
Homelessness is a stark example of the degeneration of an...
Homelessness is a stark example of the degeneration of an economic system based on the private property of a billionaire owning class. Automation is replacing workers ...
Wages can consist of your paycheck, your profit sharing check and the cost of medical insurance for you and the family. They can also consist of the medical ...
On July 4, 1776, during the American Revolution, the Second Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies approved the Declaration of Independence. While we are...
The need for the constitutional amendment against ‘corporate personhood’ advocated by Move to Amend was demonstrated clearly by a recent vote in the U.S. Senate. On the eve of the late-May ...
The corporate mouthpieces are telling us that “entitlement” programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid must be cut to reduce the federal budget deficit....
A movement of movements is re-uniting across the globe to say “ENOUGH!” to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—an international proposal being pushed by the Obama...
Rev. Edward Pinkney, bhbanco.org
The majority of the African-American people in Michigan are under the fascist newEmergency Manager law. But we are all threatened by...
