Health Care

Economic rescue bill reveals class conflict

March 23 -- The emergency $1.8 trillion rescue bill for the combination COVID-19 and economic crisis stalled in the Senate…

March 25, 2020

Cuba on the front lines of fighting COVID-19

Cuba continues to illustrate international health care solidarity in its response to the COVID-19 crisis.  The island nation has sent…

March 24, 2020

Rikers prisoners strike: Free ‘em all, shut down prisons!

While the history of captivity remains a stain on this society, those directly affected by these conditions point to things…

March 24, 2020

With COVID-19 a prison sentence = death sentence

Prisons are concentration camps for the poor -- disproportionately Black, Brown, Indigenous, migrant, disabled and, increasingly, elderly. Prisons are especially…

March 24, 2020

Shame on you, Mayor de Blasio – a WW commentary

The National Basketball Association was the first of all the professional U.S. sports leagues to suspend their regular season after…

March 23, 2020

Anti-Asian racism accelerates — WW commentary

March 22 -- As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic accelerates in the U.S. -- amid appeals for the population to “work…

March 23, 2020

Boston school bus drivers win emergency full pay during school closure

Gillis is the financial secretary of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union. On March 16, elected…

March 23, 2020

Protesters in San Antonio, Texas, decry war on migrants at Border Patrol Expo

San Antonio, Texas “Border security” is a lethal operation. As the war against migrants rages on under the guise of…

March 23, 2020

Exigencias socialistas para la crisis del COVID-19

A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 continúa extendiéndose, la respuesta del gobierno a la crisis ha sido criminalmente negligente,…

March 23, 2020

El virus desencadena el caos capitalista

16 de marzo - El mercado de valores se derrumbó hoy. El promedio industrial Dow Jones de los precios de…

March 23, 2020