COVID-19

COVID-19 vaccine patents: Private property vs. public health

Among the many controversies surrounding vital COVID-19 vaccines, the issue of patent bans gets far less attention than how vaccines…

February 23, 2021

COVID vaccines are big business and a political weapon

By Manuel Raposo Manuel Raposo is editor of jornalmudardevida.net in Portugal, where this article was published Feb. 14. Translation: John…

February 18, 2021

Philadelphians demand COVID safety

Several dozen teachers, parents and community activists protested outside Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenny’s home on Feb 12. They were demanding…

February 15, 2021

<span class="streamer2">Two new books on a people’s response to COVID-19</span><br /> ‘Planète Malade’ and ‘Capitalism on a Ventilator’

COVID-19 is an evolving catastrophe for the world’s working class. You may think you have read all that can be…

February 11, 2021

Portland nurses demand COVID-19 protection

Nurses and other health care workers, along with community members, demonstrated in front of Providence Portland Medical Center on Feb.…

February 8, 2021

COVID lockdown fuels prison suicide

By Miley Selena Fletcher The following letter is from a transgender incarcerated worker at SCI Forest in Pennsylvania. On Jan.…

February 5, 2021

Prisionero de Pensilvania en crisis de COVID – Los guardias eran los transmisores

Por Miley Selena Fletcher SCI Forest, Marienville, Pensilvania. Durante ocho meses, el Bosque de la Institución Correccional Estatal (SCI), donde…

February 2, 2021

Unholy trinity: Courts, governors, legislators refuse to prevent COVID-19 deaths in prisons

By Wesley Massey The writer is an incarcerated worker in Indiana, Pa.   COVID-19 has exposed the “cancel culture” in the…

January 29, 2021

Arreglando el capitalismo durante COVID

El 21 de enero de 2020, los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades confirmaron el primer caso…

January 29, 2021

A question about the stock market

A reader recently asked us why the stock market is still going up when the economy is being battered by…

January 28, 2021