Editorials
School Re-Opening: False Choices
The choice that the system presents to us about school re-opening is a false one. We can do better. …
COVID-19
In Brief
Rutgers University: Using the Pandemic to Make Cuts to Workers
Rutgers University is using the pandemic as an opportunity to save money by making life difficult for its workers. …
Articles
The Rush to Re-Open
The rush to re-open is not because the system cares about the education of children. …
In Brief
Having Health Experts on Staff Doesn’t Mean Doing the Right Thing
Johns Hopkins University may have health experts on staff, but that doesn’t stop it from spreading disease by re-opening in-person classes. …
Articles
Immunizing Ourselves from Misinformation
People are justifiably losing trust in official institutions, but many are replacing that with belief in conspiracy theories. …
International
France: Sanofi Pharmaceutical Co. Layoffs = Sano-Bucks!
Sanofi is laying off workers, including researchers, while paying dividends, and it has not been able to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. …
In Brief
Find a Vaccination Site? There Has to Be a Better Way
With information on vaccinations difficult to find from official sources, people have been making their own websites that provide the information. …
In Brief
Being in Prison Can Itself Be a Death Sentence during COVID
Prisoners are at high risk for COVID-19, potentially making prison a death sentence. …
In Brief
Super Bowl: “Reopening” for the Wealthy vs. Reopening for Us
The NFL is taking COVID-19 precautions for the Super Bowl. Why don’t we have equivalent precautions for schools? …
Articles
Black Lives Matter in the COVID Era
Black people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. This is part of a pattern of inequality. …
In Brief
Good news for a change
Good news: the California Department of Public Health is no longer accepting requests to waive nurse-to-patient ratios. …
In Brief
Secret Science that Rules our Lives
Newsom decided to lift the stay at home order, but provided no scientific justification for doing so. …
In Brief
Vanished Vaccines
Millions of vaccine doses have gone missing. Why can’t the capitalist system get this right? …
Featured
The International Situation: Capitalism in a State of Emergency
Capitalism is in a state of emergency, bringing all of humanity to the precipice. There is still a window of opportunity for the revolutionary power of the proletariat to intervene and carve out a path towards socialism. But that window is closing, and time is not on our side. …
Featured
An Overview of the Situation in the U.S. in 2020 – A Year of Extremes
The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …
In Brief
Getting the Vaccine to People Who Need It: Capitalism’s Logistical Nightmare
Now that a couple of vaccines have been approved for emergency use authorization by the …
In Brief
What to Do When We Have Too Many Bodies to Cremate Safely?
In Los Angeles County, as healthcare providers lose the battle against COVID-19, environmental regulators have …
In Brief
COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality – Another Morbid Symptom in Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
The inequality of the Israeli vaccination program is part of a long history of the mistreatment of Palestinians. …
Editorials
COVID Pandemic: In Whose Hands Does Our Future Lie?
A vaccine seems like the best solution available to slow down and limit the COVID …
In Brief
COVID-19 versus Climate Change
COVID-19 has caused a large temporary decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. What will it take to permanently reduce emissions? …
In Brief
Shoplifters are Not the Real Thieves
Shoplifting of basic necessities is on the rise, but the real theft is by those at the top who have enriched themselves during this pandemic. …
Articles
San Quentin Prison Staff Forcing Prisoners to Accept Liability for Their Own Deaths from COVID-19
Excerpted from a message from the No Justice Under Capitalism Coalition … San Quentin medical …
In Brief
COVID-19 is Leading Cause of Death: Time to Act
COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the United States, and it is likely to get worse. …
In Brief
The Hypocrisy of COVID Politics
The politicians institute restrictive measures while doing nothing to help people survive financially. Meanwhile, they violate their own standards to hang out with their wealthy friends. …
In Brief
Tyson Foods – Management Places Bets on Workers Getting COVID
The U.S. company Tyson Foods Inc., among the largest beef, pork and chicken producers …
In Brief
California DPH Calls for Weekly Testing of Healthcare Workers
Now, it will depend on workers to make sure guidelines are followed. …
In Brief
Possible Vaccine on the Horizon
What are the specifics of the clinical trial of this vaccine? …
In Brief
COVID-19 Surging Again
Trump had been trumpeting that media reports on COVID-19 would end right after the election. …
Articles
We Can’t Let Elections Decide Our Future
Trump and Biden may have their differences, but they both defend this system of capitalism, which profits off the labor of working people and is responsible for the problems we face today. …
In Brief
Getting Rich off of COVID
Since the COVID-19 crisis began, tax revenues for state and local governments that provide services …
In Brief
California Hospitals Deny Emergency Services to Uninsured
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to show the utter disregard for human life in the profit-focused U.S. healthcare system. …
In Brief
The Mask Falls Off of a Sick Administration
There is no White House plan to stop the spread of COVID-19. …
In Brief
Amazon: Increasing Profits and Increasing Infections
While a record number of small businesses are closing during the pandemic, Amazon’s package delivery …
IRC Articles
The German Economy and the Covid Crisis
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from German] Germany is …
IRC Articles
The Class Struggle in France During the Pandemic
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] Now that …
IRC Articles
What Perspectives, Following the Shockwave of Protests Around the World?
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 [this article has been translated from French] In the …
IRC Articles
Is a Regroupment of Revolutionaries Something to Embrace? Where to Start and Where to go to?
International Revolutionary Convergence V.1, Aug. 2020 (written in April 2020) [this article has been translated …
In Brief
No Relief for Workers as Stimulus Delayed Until After Election
Democrats and Republicans in Congress still won’t pass another so-called stimulus bill. Even though the …
Editorials
Trump’s Campaign Goes Viral
Trump tested positive for COVID-19, and was hospitalized for a few days. Over the next …
In Brief
The COVID-19 Response: Decreasing Restrictions and Increasing Deaths
The pandemic is far from over, with an enormous ongoing death toll. But the politicians insist on reopening the economy – because they serve corporate profits, not us. …
In Brief
COVID-19: What’s the Vaccine Timeline?
When will a vaccine for COVID-19 be ready? The short answer is not for a while. …
Articles
Virtual Learning is NOT the Same as Being in a Classroom
Students, teachers and parents this fall are facing the consequences of our nation’s leaders’ inability and unwillingness to control the coronavirus pandemic. …
In Brief
Shifting CDC Guidelines Expose an Unequal System
It’s easy to understand why people are hesitant to believe official information …
Online Town Hall Videos
Videos of Townhall: Back to School? This is Not Education.
The U.S. education system has been presented as a pathway of opportunity for every generation – especially those from poor and working class backgrounds. …
Articles
Big Pharma: Cutting Corners, Risking Lives
Recently, nine of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines for COVID-19 pledged that they’ll only ask the FDA for approval when the vaccines they’re working on are proven to be safe and effective …
Articles
Will Public Transportation Survive the Pandemic?
Before COVID-19, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority served 8 million people daily. Since COVID-19, it’s losing $200 million per week and suddenly has a predicted deficit of $16 billion over four years …
Articles
Worst Year Ever? It’s not 2020 – It’s Capitalism
2020 has indeed been the worst year. But further events like the ones that define this year will not end with it, unless the root cause – capitalism – is removed. …
Articles
Herd Immunity: A Game of Chance
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about herd immunity in relation to COVID-19. But what is herd immunity, and what does it mean in relation to COVID-19? …
Articles
New York City has big problems – and Wall Street and the Politicians Make Them Worse!
New York City was the first place where COVID reached critical proportions in the U.S. …
In Brief
“Lucky To Have A Job”
Is it really “lucky” to have to work in the midst of a pandemic? Meanwhile, the super-rich are still getting richer. …
