capitalism
Amazon Prime Days’ cost: High injury rates for workers
August 2, 2024OSHA’s levied thousands of dollars in fines against Amazon. But given the billions the company makes on Prime Days alone, the fines are a drop in the bucket.
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The profits of death (and near death)
July 19, 2024The latest from award-winning PW Cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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Report says CHIPS Act subsidies should come with stock buyback restrictions
July 19, 2024If corporations get government money, they should not be able to use it to inflate share prices, says Institute for Policy Studies.
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Hurricane Beryl shows the lethal consequences of monopoly power
July 17, 2024The monopoly of companies like CenterPoint Energy plus the political favors of their Republican friends in the state legislature have proven a deadly combination.
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PW archives 1981: CPUSA leader Gus Hall on the attempted assassination of Reagan
July 15, 2024Recalling the Marxist observation that the ruling ideas of any era are those of the ruling class, Hall pinpoints monopoly capital’s pursuit of profits at all costs as the root cause of the violence erupting in...
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