Lifetime visa bans on international transgender athletes for “fraud” are just the latest in a series of efforts to create a pogrom-like atmosphere against transgender people.
The promotion of such backward sentiments, for which the players are by no means chiefly responsible, underscores the real dangers confronting North American workers as the rival capitalist elites whip up national chauvinism.
Zionists ludicrously claimed that hearing Peter Lalor’s voice as he commentated Test cricket would make them feel “unsafe.”
The “Olympic wage” is a measure targeting hospitality and service workers in the lead-up to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. These events have transformed from international sporting events into platforms for large-scale profiteering, corruption and exploitation.
The life-time ban, which has kept him out of baseball’s Hall of Fame, has been maintained even as legalized betting has become a huge revenue source for professional sports.
The media lynching, fueled by right-wing attacks on the boxer, was a particularly foul expression of the cultural rot afflicting capitalism.
The horrific collapse of American sprinter Noah Lyles at the Paris Olympics due to his infection with COVID-19 is a graphic exposure of the reality that the pandemic is ongoing and remains dangerous for the entire population.
Despite the cleanup efforts along the Seine, the central issues of a combined sewer system and the mismanagement of utilities under capitalism continue to plague Paris and the competitions held in it.
The normalization of a massive police presence targeting the working class in Paris during the Olympics has gone hand in hand with the normalization of mass infection.
On Tuesday night, baseball great Willie Howard Mays III died at the age of 93 at an assisted care facility in Northern California. Mays was unquestionably among the greatest world athletes of the twentieth century.
One of the finest college players in history, Walton went on to a Hall of Fame career in the National Basketball Association. A product of the radicalized 1960s and 1970s, he was also known for his views on social matters.
The National Football League refused to postpone a playoff game despite the dire risk to the health of the fans attending.
The Israeli government and the New England Patriots' Robert Kraft bought TV ads during the NFL Super Bowl on Sunday to justify the Zionist assault on Gaza and label opposition to it as "antisemitism."
The censorship, in its own small way, shows that the Israeli war crimes in Gaza, and the support for them by governments around the world, are incompatible with democratic rights.
The courageous stand taken by the Green Brigade was vindicated in the stands around Celtic Park and particularly the North Curve section as fans responded to their appeal to defy the gagging of free speech.
The reactionary campaign to destroy Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales over his kiss of midfielder Jennifer Hermoso intensified last week.
This year’s US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in New York City has been plagued by what is being euphemistically referred to as a “mysterious” illness in what has all the hallmarks of a COVID-19 superspreader event.
Rubiales is being subjected to a ferocious witch-hunt by the media, in a campaign Spain’s politicians are only too happy to see drown out the major political issues confronting the working class.
Lineker has proved that the Tories and Labour represent a vocal minority who can dominate political life only because the majority of working people have no one to speak for them.
The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.
