Human needs before profits

What is needed to reopen schools in the U.S.?

July 13 — The Trump administration has ignored facts, science and the advice of experts when issuing an order for…

July 14, 2020

Capitalism: The cause of COVID-19 deaths

June 23 — Does the COVID-19 virus operate differently in capitalist countries than in socialist countries? Based on a comparison…

June 24, 2020

Domestic violence: ‘The epidemic within the pandemic’

“My husband won’t let me leave the house” has become an all-too-familiar cry for help since the mandatory lockdown was…

June 10, 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

The COVID-19 pandemic: a historic event that will intensify global working-class struggle

Below is an article first posted online on April 24 by Tom Soto, who died on May 31. Comrade Soto…

June 3, 2020

Economics behind the rebellion

Between March 18 and April 10,  over 22 million people lost their jobs as the unemployment rate surged toward 15…

June 3, 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

Big banks profit from COVID-19 as food, shelter, even water at risk for millions

On top of COVID-19, another epidemic — one of growing hunger, evictions and foreclosures — now looms over millions of…

June 2, 2020

Fight budget cuts in cities

Philadelphia Dozens of Philadelphia city workers wearing masks, standing on chalked X marks 6 feet apart, chanted, “Kenney’s cuts hurt”…

May 29, 2020

CUNY and the struggle against COVID-19 cuts

Special to Workers World The City University of New York is the largest urban public university system in the United…

May 28, 2020