Covid-19

Covid-19

Mumia Abu-Jamal: After 100,000

May 28, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
What happens when the counter strikes 100,000? Nothing.  One hundred thousand American dead; that means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. For does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on like […]
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COVID-19 facts to counter the U.S. anti-China campaign

May 20, 2020 Scott Scheffer
The U.S. campaign of slander against China regarding its response to the coronavirus can’t be seen only as electoral damage control for Donald Trump, nor should it be interpreted only as friction between two economic […]
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Xi Jinping: Fighting COVID-19 through solidarity and cooperation

May 20, 2020 Xi Jinping
Statement by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China At Virtual Event of Opening of the 73rd World Health Assembly Beijing, May 18, 2020 Fighting COVID-19 Through Solidarity and Cooperation Building a […]
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New York cops practice viral profiling

May 20, 2020 Lallan Schoenstein
It is widely reported that New York City police are exploiting social distancing rules, meant to protect people from the coronavirus, to practice brutal “racial profiling.” The Brooklyn Paper reported on May 12 that “New […]
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Nurses who refused to care for coronavirus patients without N95 masks are suspended, union fights back and wins

May 8, 2020 John Parker
Los Angeles — In mid-April, 10 nurses employed at Providence Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., were suspended for demanding the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep them from infection and possible death […]
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Workers’ lives before meatpacker profits

May 6, 2020 Stephen Millies
Donald Trump celebrated Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 by ordering dangerously unsafe meatpacking and poultry plants to remain open. Twenty workers in the industry have already died and nearly 5,000 have tested positive for […]
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Essential workers protest at Ralph’s supermarket in Hollywood

May 2, 2020 Scott Scheffer
UFCW Local 770 called a protest at “Rock n Roll Ralph’s” supermarket on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, Calif. Nineteen workers have tested positive for Covid 19. The union called for drivers to stay in their […]
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Blaming the victims

April 29, 2020 Stephen Millies
Have any union members been seen at the recent Tea Party rallies at the state capitols? Working and poor people need jobs and income. But they’re not too keen on rolling back the absolutely necessary […]
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COVID-19 pandemic is a historic event that will intensify working-class struggle worldwide

April 27, 2020 Tom Soto
April 24, 2020 — A friend and comrade, Mikol, recently explained that the COVID-19 virus pandemic is of such proportions on a world scale that it will surely intensify the struggle of the workers and […]
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Pandemia del Covid-19 es un hecho histórico, intensificará la lucha de la clase obrera en todo el mundo

April 27, 2020 Tom Soto
24 de abril de 2020 — Un amigo y compañero, Mikol, me explicó recientemente que la pandemia del virus Covid-19 es de proporciones tan grandes a escala mundial que seguramente intensificará la lucha de los […]