Class war
Amazon fires warehouse worker who led Staten Island strike for more coronavirus protection CNBC
General Electric Workers Walk Off the Job, Demand to Make Ventilators Vice
Walkouts at Amazon and Whole Foods Over Coronavirus: Live Updates NYTimes
Amazon fired a Staten Island warehouse worker who led a walkout as workers’ concerns over workplace safety grow.
Amazon Workers Strike To Demand Coronavirus Protections In A “Toxic Workplace” Gothamist
‘The Strike Wave Is in Full Swing’: Amazon, Whole Foods Workers Walk Off Job to Protest Unjust and Unsafe Labor Practices Common Dreams
Whole Foods Employees Are Staging a Nationwide ‘Sick-Out’ Vice
Detained migrants pepper-sprayed for protesting amid coronavirus fears San Antonio Express-News
As Instacart Strike Begins, Whole Foods Workers Plan Tuesday Sick-Out Eater
Chase Center Workers Left Unemployed and Uninsured KQED
Mets shamefully have yet to announce a plan to pay Citi Field workers
With Cuomo Silent On Relief, Some Desperate NYC Tenants Say “There’s No Choice” But To Rent Strike Gothamist
Undocumented immigrants working on pandemic’s front lines fear for health and home USA Today
‘Insulting’ Frontline Health Workers, Trump—Without Evidence—Accuses Hospital Staff in New York of Stealing Protective Gear Common Dreams
N.Y. Hospitals Face $400 Million in Cuts Even as Virus Battle Rages NYTimes
DOJ Seeks to Exploit Coronavirus Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely Truthout
Group Behind Central Park Coronavirus Tent Hospital Asks Volunteers To Support Anti-Gay Agenda Gothamist
Five things workers should know about the federal Coronavirus act Liberation
Amid calls for rent relief in New York, Cuomo insists the issue is solved Curbed
Police shoot, kill man during welfare check Albuquerque Journal
My neighbor didn’t show up for work. His boss called the cops to do a “welfare check.” They shot and killed him.
It’s 2020. Everything is canceled except for police terror.
— Nick Estes (@nick_w_estes) March 31, 2020
David Geffen Assures Us He’s Isolating on His $590 Million Yacht TMZ
Covid-19 coronavirus
Amid coronavirus crisis, China demonstrates that an alternative to the US-led, neoliberal order is possible Monthly Review
For nearly four decades the United States and its Western allies have proclaimed to the world that “there is no alternative” to neoliberalism, maligning the state and public sector as inefficient and unproductive. If the 2008 financial crisis loosened this myth’s stranglehold on notions of what is possible, the current coronavirus pandemic has shattered it.
#China has emerged as “the logistics base” in the global fight against #COVID19 Global Times
The world rediscovers Cuban medical internationalism Le Monde diplomatique
Hydroxychloroquine proves ineffective against coronavirus in small Chinese trial Forbes
The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration The New Yorker
FEMA sends refrigerated trucks to New York City to hold bodies Politico
There’s scant evidence so far for chloroquine as a COVID-19 drug — but there’s already a shortage MarketWatch
Illinois governor says feds sent wrong type of protective medical masks CNN
Growing Xenophobia Against China in the Midst of Coronashock Newsclick
Violent attacks against Asians in the United States have spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration.
Capitalist crisis
Debt Collection Deems Itself Essential Amid Coronavirus Crisis Intercept
It's so much easier for an airline exec to apply for $32 billion in bailout money than for a random poor person to apply for food stamps. (ht @amandalfischer) https://t.co/DcifMRMKoW pic.twitter.com/MZgDXYBce5
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 31, 2020
U.S. war drive
Biden’s Foreign Policy Teams Hints at War with China, Conflict with Russia MPN
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