Deirdre Griswold

Class oppression and the virus

The United States continues to lead the world — in the number of COVID-19 cases as well as in deaths.…

November 13, 2020

After 55 years of repression Indonesian workers, youth take to streets

Thousands of workers and students marched and rallied in Indonesia on Oct. 7 to protest a new antilabor law.  “Labor…

October 15, 2020

‘Year of the Rich’

You hear it over and over again. We live in the “land of opportunity,” where hard work rewards those who…

October 1, 2020

Bannon’s arrest exposes fraud at the top

Stephen K. Bannon may be in big trouble. Or maybe not. Pals of the very rich rarely pay for their…

August 27, 2020

Virus statistics reveal class truth

The following is a digest of articles on COVID-19 by Deirdre Griswold that appeared in Workers World from April to…

August 2, 2020

COVID figures reveal stark contrasts

June 29 — No country boasts louder of its success than the United States. This is the most powerful capitalist…

June 29, 2020

Amazing facts about the virus

Facts are stubborn things.  Take the fact that the People’s Republic of China, with four times the population of the…

June 24, 2020

Toppling a mass murderer

It seems that in Britain, similar to here in the U.S., the ruling class has made sure to sing the…

June 19, 2020

The real looters pocketed $11.7 billion

Who are the real looters? They wear elegant business suits, not hoodies or jeans. They dine at fancy restaurants, not…

June 5, 2020

Trump, WHO, the pandemic and big pharma

Smack in the middle of the biggest pandemic in a century, President Donald Trump has announced he is withdrawing the…

June 2, 2020