Health Care

Rikers prisoners strike: Free ‘em all, shut down prisons!

While the history of captivity remains a stain on this society, those directly affected by these conditions point to things…

March 24, 2020

With COVID-19 a prison sentence = death sentence

Prisons are concentration camps for the poor -- disproportionately Black, Brown, Indigenous, migrant, disabled and, increasingly, elderly. Prisons are especially…

March 24, 2020

Shame on you, Mayor de Blasio – a WW commentary

The National Basketball Association was the first of all the professional U.S. sports leagues to suspend their regular season after…

March 23, 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

Boston school bus drivers win emergency full pay during school closure

Gillis is the financial secretary of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union. On March 16, elected…

March 23, 2020

Protesters in San Antonio, Texas, decry war on migrants at Border Patrol Expo

San Antonio, Texas “Border security” is a lethal operation. As the war against migrants rages on under the guise of…

March 23, 2020

Exigencias socialistas para la crisis del COVID-19

A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 continúa extendiéndose, la respuesta del gobierno a la crisis ha sido criminalmente negligente,…

March 23, 2020

El virus desencadena el caos capitalista

16 de marzo - El mercado de valores se derrumbó hoy. El promedio industrial Dow Jones de los precios de…

March 23, 2020

Spa workers take direct action in Austin, Texas – WW commentary

The writer is a worker at a health spa in Austin. March 16 -- The spread of coronavirus COVID-19 throughout…

March 19, 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