Human needs before profits

Why Cuba is winning the fight against COVID-19

This article is a lightly edited version of a talk given Aug. 6 during the Workers World webinar entitled, “War…

August 13, 2020

Political strike shuts down Bolivia

Ibarra, Ecuador Do Bolivian lives matter? The Bolivian masses are experiencing a perfect storm of social, health and economic crises.…

August 11, 2020

An anti-racist vote for class unity

Rashida Tlaib of Detroit made history on Nov. 7, 2018, when she became the first Palestinian American woman elected to…

August 11, 2020

Boston school workers blast ‘reopening plans’

By Steve Gillis, Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751 and G. Lechat, Harvard TPS Coalition Boston Public School nurses, teachers and…

August 4, 2020

Struggle makes headway, but fight far from over in Portland, Ore.

When federal officers entered Portland, Ore., over the July 4 weekend and began to confront Black Lives Matter protesters, it…

August 4, 2020

Republicans sabotage as negotiations delay pandemic relief package

Aug. 3 — Talks between the Republican administration and its majority Republican Senate with the Democratic Party House and Senate…

August 4, 2020

The virus, the GDP and the profit motive

“The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday,” the New York Times wrote July 30,  “as…

August 4, 2020

Brazil: From pandemic to genocide

Since the pandemic began, Brazilians have suffered 93,000 deaths and 2.7 million infections — the second highest number of infections…

August 4, 2020

Impasse in Congress over CARES 2

As COVID-19 spreads exponentially in most of the United States where the ruling class has rushed to “open” the capitalist…

July 28, 2020

‘U.S. Chernobyl’: Why the U.S. failed and China won against COVID-19

By Lee Siu Hin  李小轩 This slightly edited talk was given at the July 16 Workers World Party webinar, “Why…

July 24, 2020