Month: April 2020

By now, COVID-19 has spread around the world, to every continent where human beings live. …

As Covid-19 has spread to the pacific, so has resistance from its residents. …

From a Bay Area Worker: This crisis has turned our lives upside down. …

Public transit workers are on the front lines and need to be valued as such. …

Ten million people have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks. Hundreds of thousands …

Le Monde (the world), a French newspaper, reported on two recent polls of the French …

This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Around the World in 20 minutes Sunday, …

With the Covid-19 crisis, almost ten million people have filed for unemployment in the course of two weeks …

Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need. …

We live in a time of extreme contradictions. On the one hand, our civilization has eliminated smallpox, brought us cell phones, robotics, and space travel …

Link to videos of this townhall Covid-19: Workers from the Frontlines As the death toll …

Oakland Healthcare worker: Only by standing together can we take care of our patients safely. …

Oakland Education Worker:
In the midst of a global pandemic, families face illness, unemployment, eviction, and hunger. …

Bay Area, California Resident:
I haven’t had to get out of bed this early for years. I do because I am not going out like this. …

To lower the number of Covid-19 cases, people are encouraged to stay inside their house. But what do you do when you don’t even have a house to stay in? …

Self-isolation thanks to the coronavirus makes everyone much more dependent on the internet. But lots of families lack reliable access …

Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic …

The Trump administration’s criminal failure to act and to coordinate a response to the coronavirus …

The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations …

As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes …

Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it. …

Regardless of their offense, many people now in prison are sentenced to death by Covid-19. …

The virus doesn’t discriminate based on where you were born. But the U.S. government does. …

Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. …

On Monday, General Electric (GE) factory workers held demonstrations at two different plants, with the demand that the company use its aviation factories to produce ventilators. …

You would think that to fight the coronavirus, the government would pull together the best minds among relevant researchers and health care providers, decide what needs to get done, get industry to make the necessary supplies …

Instacart, a company that lets you order groceries online and have them delivered from your favorite stores, has seen a boom in business since the coronavirus has forced people to stay home. …

Childhelp, a national anonymous hotline to report child abuse, has reported a 23 percent increase in calls and a 263 percent increase in texts for March 2020 compared to March 2019. …

“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …