COVID-19

Denying health crisis won’t save jobs

June 21 – For the thirteenth week in a row, the number of initial claims the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

June 25, 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

COVID-19 hot spot

Houston The National Black United Front in Houston toured the Harris County Jail on May 19, Malcolm X’s 95th birthday,…

June 13, 2020

Police terror, COVID-19 are women’s issues

These slightly edited remarks were given by Monica Moorehead at a June 7 International Women’s Alliance webinar: “Building our militant…

June 10, 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

Brazil’s Trump: Bolsonaro is the ‘biggest threat’ to COVID response

On May 9, The Lancet medical journal, in assessing the COVID crisis in Brazil, wrote that “perhaps the biggest threat…

June 3, 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

The Bronx is burning again: COVID-19’s impact on New York’s most underserved district

COVID-19 continues to rage on as an international pandemic months after the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China.  Never to be…

June 2, 2020

Resisting imprisonment

Prisoners are acting to protect themselves and each other in the middle of the global pandemic as they protest inhuman…

June 1, 2020

Cleveland car/pedestrian action demands prisoner release

Cleveland May 29 — Today a combination car/pedestrian protest in downtown Cleveland called for the Cuyahoga County Jail to release…

June 1, 2020