Human needs before profits

Boston school workers blast ‘reopening plans’

By Steve Gillis, Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751 and G. Lechat, Harvard TPS Coalition Boston Public School nurses, teachers and…

August 4, 2020

Struggle makes headway, but fight far from over in Portland, Ore.

When federal officers entered Portland, Ore., over the July 4 weekend and began to confront Black Lives Matter protesters, it…

August 4, 2020

Republicans sabotage as negotiations delay pandemic relief package

Aug. 3 — Talks between the Republican administration and its majority Republican Senate with the Democratic Party House and Senate…

August 4, 2020

The virus, the GDP and the profit motive

“The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday,” the New York Times wrote July 30,  “as…

August 4, 2020

Brazil: From pandemic to genocide

Since the pandemic began, Brazilians have suffered 93,000 deaths and 2.7 million infections — the second highest number of infections…

August 4, 2020

Impasse in Congress over CARES 2

As COVID-19 spreads exponentially in most of the United States where the ruling class has rushed to “open” the capitalist…

July 28, 2020

‘U.S. Chernobyl’: Why the U.S. failed and China won against COVID-19

By Lee Siu Hin  李小轩 This slightly edited talk was given at the July 16 Workers World Party webinar, “Why…

July 24, 2020

Eviction of Philadelphia houseless camp postponed

Philadelphia Dozens of houseless people set up a tent encampment on June 11, right on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, within…

July 22, 2020

Quick facts on China and COVID

This slightly edited talk was given at the July 16 Workers World Party webinar: “Why We Defend China.” The webinar…

July 22, 2020

ADA not enough: Disabled people need socialism

The pandemic is teaching able-bodied people what it’s like to be disabled. Not being able to get around like you…

July 21, 2020