U.S. Sanctions Exacerbate the Coronavirus Crisis in Iran
Someone dies of coronavirus every ten minutes in Iran, according to the country’s health ministry. …
Someone dies of coronavirus every ten minutes in Iran, according to the country’s health ministry. …
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has already led to a global catastrophe with 353,692 infected and 15,430 dead (3/23/2020), with the rest of the world’s population still threatened with infection. …
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 …
Two months ago, on January 15th, the second death from a virus was reported in Wuhan, China. Since then Wuhan and the coronavirus (COVID-19) have become household terms. …
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 …
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? …
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. …
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation. …
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 …
Published by Speak Out Now. All material on this website is copyrighted by speakoutsocialists.org except for materials republished with permission. Readers are welcome to share material belonging to this site so long as it is attributed to speakoutsocialists.org