IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis Counterpunch
Report from China: COVID-19 a tale of two systems FightBack! News
An in-depth look at two very different responses to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and China
“Here in #China, I witnessed a much more concerted response to #COVID19. China’s centrally planned socialist system allowed for widespread and identical action in every single city.”
Covid-19 coronavirus
May 2018: The President Fires the entire US Pandemic Response Team and does not replace it.
New study further proves Wuhan seafood market not the source of COVID-19 CGTN
A View From The Front Lines Of California’s COVID-19 Battle California Healthline
Sick Doctors Are Being Forced to Use Vacation Time if They Get Coronavirus Daily Beast
Nurses say they won’t get paid time off if they catch coronavirus — and it could force them to choose between paying bills or heading to work while sick Business Insider
Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals Just How Devastating the Greed of For-Profit Insurance Industry Has Become Common Dreams
Remember: For-profit insurers are in the business to make a profit. Period.
Nissan Workers Forced to Work During COVID-19 in Mississippi Payday Report
Iran Backs China, Calls to Investigate U.S. ‘Creation and Spread’ of Coronavirus Newsweek
Trump Resorts To Racism To Deflect Blame For Pandemic
WHO Now Officially Recommends to Avoid Taking Ibuprofen For COVID-19 Symptoms
Detroit Bus Drivers Win Protections Against Virus Through Strike Labor Notes
The coronavirus is starting to spread on a US Navy warship, and the flattop’s crew is scrambling to stop it Business Inside
Hospital Workers Make Masks From Office Supplies Amid US Shortage Bloomberg
Drug Companies Will Make a Killing From Coronavirus NYTimes
Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero Financial Times
Coronavirus response: Navy hospital ship won’t be ready to help NY for weeks CNBC
French Amazon workers protest in coronavirus pushback Reuters
The tech execs who don’t agree with ‘soul-stealing’ coronavirus safety measures Guardian
Big Oil crisis
The Real Oil Demand Shock Is Yet To Come
Oil prices could hit teens in coming weeks as markets crater over coronavirus and price war CNBC
Capitalist recession
Corona Virus And Social Security, Another Grand Bargain?
They have seen how to make money out of the pandemic. Even more, they have seen how to use it to destroy Social Security.
Oil Giant Forced To Furlough 3,500 Workers OilPrice
With Most Members Out Of Work, UNITE HERE Calls For ‘Worker Bailout’ LaborPress
Coronavirus shock will likely claim 3 million jobs by summer EPI
States Can’t Keep Up with Surging Unemployment Claims from Coronavirus Vice
US set to be inundated with jobless claims Financial Times
There is no guarantee the collapse of capitalism will result in a socialist revolution. This may be such a moment, as Marx and Engels wrote in 1848, that may result "either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
— Nick Estes (@nick_w_estes) March 18, 2020
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