Publications

Healthcare workers protested the lack of protective equipment (PPE) outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Oakland, …

Sixers employees were about to take pay cuts … until Joel Embiid stepped in …

Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus. …

On Monday, President Trump suggested that he’d lift the current shutdown on March 31. This is against the advice of top health officials …

On the evening of March 23, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, did an interview on Fox News and declared …

For the past couple of weeks, nurses at Kaiser Hospital have been caring for patients that came from the Grand Princess cruise ship and tested positive for coronavirus. Although there was time for the hospital to prepare before the ship docked, management implemented a training scheme only after the first confirmed cases of patients with Covid-19 arrived. …

While Fox news was denying coronavirus was a problem, Fox’s owner was acting differently. …

With many people out of work due to coronavirus’ impact on their industry or their health, some Bay Area cities and counties are offering modest relief to renters …

Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions representing nurses at the facilities …

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will provide unlimited credit–and assume the bad debts, not just of banks, but for what it called ‘Main St.’ But by ‘Main St.’ it doesn’t mean consumers or households …

Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …

Millennials: If you can’t stay at home for others, do it for yourselves. …

David and Denise Morse were sent to the California air force base after 21 people on their Grand Princess cruise were diagnosed with coronavirus …

Fed up with unsanitary working conditions, bus operators in Detroit refused to drive the buses …

At the end of 2019, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, began a massive …

Someone dies of coronavirus every ten minutes in Iran, according to the country’s health ministry. …

We are often told that we don’t have the money in this country for what …

Employees say they are anxious about working in crowded stores with inadequate sanitation and lack of paid time off …

By March 23rd, there were over 370,000 cases of Coronavirus, including more than 16,000 deaths …

This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Everybody trusts virologists, emergency doctors and biologists …

Truckers and warehouse workers at UPS and FedEx feel they have not choice but to keep showing up, even with coronavirus-like sypmtoms …

The divisions between the rich and poor are infuriatingly clear in 2020 …

“With every crucial delay, with every blunder and misstep, the toll is going to be measured in lives lost.” …

Faced with the horrific coronavirus pandemic, with no idea of its potential scope or how …

Now is the time to imagine a better world. …

Rideshare workers are calling for enforcement of California’s AB5 which would allow them at least three days of paid sick leave …

As the outbreak has hit America and the country has started to shut down, workers in many industries wonder: what now? …

There has recently been an increase in violence and harassment directed at Asian people, both …

The coronavirus has turned all of our lives upside-down. While all of the major sports …

Coronavirus: inconsistencies at the top, discontent at the workplaces This post is translated from French …

On Tuesday evening, Edouard Philippe, after Castaner, Blanquer and Macron the night before, made his call for civism and “national union”. But all these representatives of power are much less comfortable when journalists relay the questions coming from the bottom of society as they still deny their own responsibility for the spread of the virus, linked to the damage done by their health policies. …

For-profit insurers are in the business to make a profit. Period. …

Now isn’t the time to blindly follow orders from bosses. To make sure our response to coronavirus is safe and just, workers need to take on-the-job action like sick-outs and strikes — as New York City educators have over the past week. …

Rain in the 2019-2020 season has been well below average in California, and the outlook …

For many years, Newark NJ has had a big problem with lead in its drinking …

International Women’s Day, March 8th, was created over a 100 years ago through the demonstrations …

This April marks the fifth anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising of 2015. Thousands took to …

On February 29, the French government used an executive order to pass a widely-hated reform …

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and richest person on the planet, recently announced in an …

Two months ago, on January 15th, the second death from a virus was reported in …

Rain in the 2019-2020 season has been well below average in California, and the outlook for the rest of 2020 is for it to be drier than average, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. …

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and richest person on the planet, recently announced in an Instagram post that he is planning on donating $10 billion to combat climate change. “Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. …

For many years, Newark NJ has had a big problem with lead in its drinking water. Lead is hazardous and most dangerous to children. It can cause brain damage and many other serious problems.

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This April marks the fifth anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising of 2015. …

Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation. …

Sanders promises his victory could solve many problems working people face. But this is a fantasy. …

One positive takeaway from the world’s response to the coronavirus epidemic is that it’s entirely possible to successfully combat two other existential and intertwined global crises: climate change and air pollution. …

Yaak Pabst interviews Monthly Review Press author Rob Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic …