COVID-19

Women bear brunt of unemployment in COVID economic crisis

The month of December revealed some stunning news affecting the U.S. working class, as the impact of the viral pandemic…

January 19, 2021

For exposing COVID-19 outbreak, Black newspaper editor faces retaliation

What happens when a federal prisoner who has just become the Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco Bay View National Black…

January 19, 2021

Patching up capitalism during COVID

On Jan. 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first recognized case of COVID-19 in the…

January 18, 2021

COVID-19: How weaponizing disease and vaccine wars are failing us

Join Popular Resistance and the International Action Center Tuesday, Jan 26, for a webinar featuring authors of the new book:…

January 18, 2021

Pa. prisoner on COVID crisis – Guards were the transmitters

Since Workers World received this letter, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has confirmed nearly 7,000 cases of COVID-19 among prisoners…

January 8, 2021

Advocates demand action as largest women’s prison experiences COVID-19 outbreak

The following press release was issued Jan. 5 by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners   CHOWCHILLA, Calif.   There is…

January 5, 2021

Buffalo, N.Y., press conference demands COVID relief

By Hadley Willow Buffalo, N.Y.  While the U.S. government has comfortably resigned itself to a criminally negligent stasis regarding any…

December 30, 2020

What prisons are like during COVID lockdown: interview with a Pennsylvania incarcerated worker

Philadelphia Since the start of November 2020, more than 3,000 incarcerated workers and at least 1,200 guards and staff have…

December 27, 2020

Las empresas mienten, los trabajadores contraatacan

Estamos en medio de una pandemia épica y creciente en los EE.UU. Hay 200.000 casos nuevos casi a diario y…

December 24, 2020