Human needs before profits

Rank-and-file autoworkers win fight for safety

Working in an auto plant is a dangerous job. From slippery floors to toxic chemicals to improperly maintained equipment, autoworkers…

March 24, 2020

Anti-Asian racism accelerates — WW commentary

March 22 -- As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic accelerates in the U.S. -- amid appeals for the population to “work…

March 23, 2020

Texas health care workers report from inside the pandemic

The following are lightly edited testimonies about the health care system response to the coronavirus COVID-19 from several workers who…

March 19, 2020

Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, the government's response to the crisis has been criminally negligent, while capitalists would…

March 18, 2020

Virus triggers capitalist chaos

March 16 -- The stock market collapsed today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of stock prices lost nearly 3,000 points…

March 17, 2020

COVID-19 exposes failure of U.S. health care

In this pandemic, people in the U.S. should be questioning why the current capitalist health care system seems unable to…

March 16, 2020

How profits drive the capitalist crisis

Talk by Deirdre Griswold, editor of Workers World]Mundo Obrero newspaper, phoned in to New York branch meeting of Workers World…

March 16, 2020

Wall Street’s worst crisis since ’08

This edited talk was given at a March 12 Workers World Party branch meeting in New York City. It is…

March 16, 2020

How China has controlled the virus

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc in country after country, causing total shutdowns in Italy, Spain and elsewhere, China…

March 16, 2020

Seattle: Workers need health care, not Trumpcare! WW commentary

Seattle March 9 -- In Washington state, there were 15 deaths from COVID-19 (coronavirus) and 79 diagnosed cases of the…

March 13, 2020