On May 1, workers around the world celebrate May Day. It was born out of the struggles of U.S. workers in the 1880s. In 1889, it was proclaimed an international holiday of the working class by an international organization of socialist parties committed to abolishing...
The news media and many politicians have acted shocked that African American people are getting COVID-19 and dying from it at much higher rates than white people. As the numbers keep coming out, it has become impossible even for racist-in-chief, Trump, to ignore. He...
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...
The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the U.S. on January 20, but statewide stay-at-home orders didn’t even start unrolling until March 19. For two months this highly contagious virus had been circulating throughout the country with practically no response. It...
As March comes to a close, the coronavirus has produced a global pandemic with the number of confirmed cases exploding across the world. As of March 30, approximately 37,000 deaths from 767,000 confirmed cases in 177 different countries have been recorded. Given the...
