Op-Eds

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian The situation in Gaza is a disaster. Congress must take action. The administration must take action. The world must take action. Today, three weeks after Hamas’s barbaric attack against civilians in Israel, which began this war, many hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in Gaza are facing catastrophe. Over the past three weeks,

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News Auto CEOs make hundreds of times more than UAW workers. That needs to change I strongly support the UAW strike against the Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford and Stellantis). Here’s why.  The fight the UAW is waging has everything to do with the outrageous level of corporate greed and arrogance on the part of senior executives

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian Workers at the big three carmakers earn less now in real dollars than they did 15 years ago – as their CEOs make more and more. Their fight is everyone’s fight. In the United States today, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower than

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian It’s not utopian thinking to imagine that, for the first time in world history, everyone could have a decent standard of living As we celebrate Labor Day, 2023 let’s take a quick look at the economy over the last few years. Never before in American history have so few owned so much and has there

By: Bernie Sanders; Jacobin In an address to union workers ahead of Labor Day, Bernie Sanders says that unprecedented corporate greed demands an unprecedented worker response. We reprint his remarks here. On August 27 in Philadelphia, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addressed an audience of two thousand union activists at the UNI Global Union World Congress. UNI Global is an international

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian Cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet Climate change is a global crisis and cannot be solved by any one country alone. If the United States, China and other industrialized countries do not come together to dramatically decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the world