By STEVE R. JOHNSON Plans to reopen schools are being questioned by the international working class as the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the world.
Reopening schools: A dangerous threat to children and teachers
Category: Coronavirus
Unemployment Skyrockets, So Does Hunger
By BARRY SHEPPARD The Labor Department recently released figures for the unemployment rate for April, saying that the rate was 14.7 percent, the highest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Labor Department said that because of how it classifies workers, the real figure could be 20 percent. These figures reflect the situation as … Continue reading Unemployment Skyrockets, So Does Hunger
The “New Normal” and Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine
By MARTY GOODMAN Today only 51.3% of American adults have jobs – the lowest number on record, lower than the Great Depression. We have passed 80,000 coronavirus deaths.
The “moron” Trump’s COVID-19 capitalist cure: Back to work!
By JEFF MACKLER "A quick succession of unhealthy and short-lived generations will keep the labour market as well supplied as a series of vigorous and long-lived generations." - Karl Marx
May Day Protests Call for Workers’ and Immigrant Rights and Housing Protections; U.S. Predicts 3,000 Deaths per Day
By BARRY SHEPPARD May Day saw significant actions by workers in essential companies serving the general public during the shutdown.
Free them all! Empty the prisons! Let our people go!
Why are so many in jail? Here is the fightback narrative: America is a racist nation, founded on the principle that billionaire and multimillionaire white men are created equal, and therefore should have equal opportunities to make super-profits from an exploited workforce of lesser humans, namely working people.
Corporations and the Pandemic: Bandits at the Till
By JAMES FORTIN With assistance from their Democratic and Republican co-conspirators the corporate bandits have stuck up the nation.