A Game of Pretend
From a Bay Area Biotech Worker: The measures that businesses take need to be more than just a facade.
Coronavirus claims an unexpected victim: Florida vegetables
Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants that have closed because of the coronavirus.
The Arabian Peninsula: Imperialism Prepared the Way for the Coming COVID-19 Crisis
By now, COVID-19 has spread around the world, to every continent where human beings live. Daily life has been upended, and tens of thousands have died, with millions more at risk. This is in addition to the horrific problems that poor and working class people are being made to suffer globally due to an unstable […]
Hawai’i Residents Fight to Protect Their Communities in the Midst of COVID-19
As Covid-19 has spread to the pacific, so has resistance from its residents.
Know Your Rights
From a Bay Area Worker: This crisis has turned our lives upside down.
Hazard Work – But No Hazard Pay?
Public transit workers are on the front lines and need to be valued as such.
Seeking Help in a Broken System
Ten million people have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks. Hundreds of thousands more were unable to do so, due to flooded call centers and jammed websites. New York State normally processes 50,000 claims weekly, but in the last week of March received over 8.2 million. In New Mexico, a state with a […]
France: Little Confidence in the Government
Le Monde (the world), a French newspaper, reported on two recent polls of the French population. The polls showed that nearly two in three French people think that the government is lying to them about the management of the epidemic: 63% believe that the government is “hiding things”, 70% think that the government “does not […]
The International Coronavirus
This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Around the World in 20 minutes Sunday, March 29 According to an AFP count, by Friday, March 27th at 11 am (Paris time), the coronavirus had already killed more than 25,000 people worldwide, two-thirds of them in Europe. Hundreds of thousands have been diagnosed, yet the figures […]
The COVID-19 Housing Crisis – Eviction Moratoriums are Not Enough
With the Covid-19 crisis, almost ten million people have filed for unemployment in the course of two weeks
Brazil – The Most Inefficient President in the World Risks Workers’ Lives
Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need.
[VIDEO] Capitalism is the Problem
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
Online Townhall: Sat. April 11, 2020
Link to videos of this townhall Covid-19: Workers from the Frontlines As the death toll from this virus continues to climb, it is clear that the government’s main concern is the health of the banks and corporations, not working people. Millions have lost their jobs and have been left to fend for themselves and their […]
An Impossible Choice
Oakland Healthcare worker: Only by standing together can we take care of our patients safely.
Taking it Online — Oakland Teachers and Parents Oppose Privatization
Oakland Education Worker:
In the midst of a global pandemic, families face illness, unemployment, eviction, and hunger.
Rona19 – A Personal Account
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.
Homeless in the Time of COVID-19
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?
The Digital Divide
Self-isolation thanks to the coronavirus makes everyone much more dependent on the internet. But lots of families lack reliable access
Food Deserts in a Pandemic
Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19: A Capitalist Pandemic
The Trump administration’s criminal failure to act and to coordinate a response to the coronavirus pandemic has created a healthcare disaster. Early on, when information was coming from China, Trump said that the virus was not a threat and it would soon go away. For weeks, he and other politicians stood by while the virus […]
Pandemic Stimulus: The Priorities of Their System Laid Bare
The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations
Education Under COVID-19 – Exposing a World of Inequalities
As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes
France: Die first, demand later?
Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it.
Trapped in a Pandemic: When Jail Without Bail is a Death Sentence
Regardless of their offense, many people now in prison are sentenced to death by Covid-19.
Undocumented Immigrants: The Virus Doesn’t Discriminate, but the U.S. Government Does
The virus doesn’t discriminate based on where you were born. But the U.S. government does.
Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’
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.
GE Workers Demand Ventilator Production
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.
How NOT to Fight a Virus
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 Workers Protest Conditions
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.
An Abusive System
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.
France: Our outrage!
“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital