The recent onslaught of rainfall in California, dropping over a foot of rain in some places, stands as a stark reminder of the dire consequences of climate change in the era of capitalism’s implosive decay.
In August 1965, a social volcano erupted in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. This episode of insurrectionary anger inspired similar uprisings in cities across the nation, with echoes that can still be heard today.
A rogue’s gallery of class enemies have announced their intention to run for mayor of Los Angeles in 2022. We need a mass working-class socialist party!
In California, the combination of climate change and a natural, cyclical climatic event has brought on the worst “megadrought” in over 400 years. This does not bode well for our future under capitalism.
California Governor Newsom lifted the stay-at-home order across the state. The contradictions of capitalism are fully revealed in the conflict between the economy and the population’s health.
Amidst the new normal of pandemic and economic collapse, Californians are experiencing yet another one of the catastrophic consequences of capitalism: wildfire season.
Faced with the threat of contagion, L.A.’s homeless are organizing to protect their lives. Several people, among them working families, have begun occupying vacant houses.
The contradictory impasse of capitalism has led to skyrocketing housing costs and homelessness—while at the same time, millions of homes stand empty.
Dozens of major cities in the United States are dealing with housing crises, but California exhibits some of the most acute symptoms.
The town of Paradise has been effectively wiped off the map by the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history.
When it comes to the richest state in the union, all capitalism can offer is patchwork reforms that are designed to fail. We need better to combat climate change – we need socialism.
As the state with over a third of the country’s chronically homeless population, California has faced this epidemic for decades.
