COVID-19

COVID-19: An ongoing threat to health care workers

Health care workers around the world continue to fight for basic health protections amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Last week,…

July 25, 2023

ON STRIKE: 1,800 Portland Prudential nurses

Portland, Oregon Nurses and clinicians marched off the job June 19 for a weeklong strike after an overwhelming 97% strike…

June 30, 2023

Massachusetts health care activists demand: Restore COVID-19 protections now! 

Boston The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity (Mass. CHE) held an online press conference on April 5 to demand the…

April 28, 2023

End to PHE Medicaid endangers millions

With the Biden Administration ready to let the COVID-19 National Emergency expire on May 11, millions of people in the…

April 18, 2023

Masking for COVID-19 mitigation and safety is anti-capitalist solidarity

On Feb. 6, the Boston branch of Workers World Party collectively decided and unanimously voted, prompted by young and disabled…

March 24, 2023

Another form of gig work: the 2020s sex-work boom

By Janisse Miles Three years ago, people in the U.S. were notified that they had to celebrate Women’s History Month…

March 23, 2023

Feds declare health emergency over, but COVID-19 still ravages Disability community

March 5, 2023 The Biden administration announced Jan. 30 its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency…

March 8, 2023

Despite the blockade
Cuba’s health care system is extraordinary

The day the 51st Venceremos Brigade left for Cuba, Dec. 27, 2022, some 262 people in the U.S. died of…

January 17, 2023

Long COVID: a public health catastrophe

On Sept. 18, President Joe Biden declared: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still…

December 15, 2022

China and the cost of reversing COVID-19 policies

For months western media has been attacking China’s COVID policies, condemning them for causing enormous inconvenience and discomfort to avoid…

December 15, 2022