Health Care

‘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

Teachers and staff organize in New York City during Covid-19

The Professional Staff Congress, the American Federation of Teachers union  representing 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of…

July 23, 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

Popular protest shakes former French colony Mali

Tens of thousands of Malians in the capital Bamako came out in the streets July 10 for three days of…

July 22, 2020

Time for the next great leap

Was capitalism ever progressive? Well, yes — compared to feudalism. The revolutionary struggles that overthrew feudal landlords, starting centuries ago…

July 21, 2020

End federal executions, racist death penalty!

In just four days, the U.S. government doubled to six the number of federal executions since Congress reauthorized the federal…

July 20, 2020

Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘A rogue nation?’– a commentary

This slightly edited commentary from July 8 by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is available at prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia. Several days ago, the…

July 17, 2020

Capitalist system is ‘not above the law’

Big Media headlines trumpeted “Supreme Court says Trump not above the law” when SCOTUS ruled on July 9 that the…

July 15, 2020

Trump’s xenophobic attack on international students

July 13 - Unions representing graduate student workers, many international, organized simultaneous July 13 rallies from coast to coast in…

July 14, 2020