Archive: 04/2020
2020-04-01
- UK warehouse and distribution workers protest exposure to COVID -19
- Washington harnesses coronavirus pandemic to promote Venezuela coup
- Coronavirus deaths in US nearing 4,000 as Trump washes his hands of responsibility
- Ukraine passes IMF-backed land reform bill, social cuts as coronavirus spreads
- Daily Telegraph rails against socialist revival due to coronavirus crisis
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold online event: “COVID-19 pandemic and capitalist barbarism”
- Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. issue shelter-in-place orders
- Quebec tries to extort concessions from health care and other public sector workers
- Covid-19 pandemic poses gravest threat to world’s poorest countries
- Unprecedented police and military powers implemented in Australian pandemic response
- Hundreds wait in mile-long line at Pittsburgh area food bank
- Peruvian president authorizes military to use lethal force to enforce the national quarantine
- The working class, socialism and the fight against the pandemic
- Netflix’s Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak
- St. Louis Fed says 50 million Americans could be unemployed by July
- The significance of Hungarian Prime Minister Orban’s enabling act
- Financial turbulence continues to grow
- With 30,000 dead in Europe from COVID-19: Workers strike to demand safe working conditions
- Canada’s governments exempt sections of industry from lockdowns, imperilling workers’ lives
- Detroit Amazon workers strike to demand COVID-19 protection
- As Detroit surges past 2,000 cases, COVID-19 pandemic spreads throughout Michigan
- Airlines, auto companies cut pay even as US government bails out corporations
- Brazilian stadium turned into field hospital as ruling class closes ranks behind corporate bailouts
- Bangladesh: Garment workers strike over safety amid COVID-19 crisis
- COVID-19 pandemic leads to mass sackings in Australia
- Amazon, Whole Foods, and Instacart workers strike against hazardous conditions
2020-04-02
- US Conference of Mayors survey shows severe lack of equipment to combat coronavirus pandemic
- Tennessee governor’s delay in issuing stay-at-home order means thousands more will die, physicians warn
- Sri Lankan medical experts demand mass coronavirus testing
- Without work and regular paycheck millions of Americans at risk of eviction as rent comes due
- US Bureau of Prisons implements 14-day national lockdown as coronavirus pandemic takes hold
- Coronavirus freezes Democratic presidential campaign as states postpone primaries
- UK: Communication Workers Union seeks unity with Royal Mail against postal workers
- Amid growing anger over criminal response to COVID-19 crisis, Washington threatens war
- New Zealand workers speak out on unsafe conditions, wage cuts
- Ten New York City transit workers die of COVID-19
- Nightingale field hospital completed in London to cope with mass coronavirus deaths
- Stock market sell-off resumes
- One hundred years since Germany’s Kapp Putsch
- Indonesian government declares “national emergency” after downplaying coronavirus threat
- Modi government represses desperate migrant workers amid calamitous coronavirus lockdown
- Statistical lies used to justify continued inaction, paint the US epidemic as nearly over
- Cuomo presses forward with Medicaid cuts as New York City health care system overwhelmed by pandemic
- Hospital closures continue in Germany despite COVID-19 pandemic
- As COVID-19 pandemic exposes failure of capitalism, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shifts to the right
- Clemency: A prison warden with a civil war inside her
- US Navy aircraft carrier commander seeks evacuation of entire crew to stem outbreak of coronavirus
- COVID-19 infections hit Australian health workers
- 19,000 ambulance workers strike in Northern India to demand protective gear
- Alberta’s right-wing UCP government exploits coronavirus pandemic to lay off at least 20,000 education workers
- Confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa exceeds 6,000 with more than 200 deaths
2020-04-03
- An interview with four Chinese physicians at the epicenter of the pandemic in Wuhan
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- South Australian teacher speaks out against governments keeping schools open
- Experts criticise Swedish government for failing to prevent COVID-19 spread
- Coronavirus hits Seattle, Washington homeless shelters
- India: Maoist-led union alliance betrays Sanmina workers
- Australia: Melbourne rail union promotes sellout industrial agreement
- Why is the World Socialist Web Site banned from the subreddit r/coronavirus?
- Royal Mail rejects all demands for basic coronavirus safety measures, but CWU continues to block strike
- Polish government insists on holding presidential elections in May despite coronavirus lockdown
- For emergency action against the destruction of jobs! Full financial and social support for all working people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic!
- Navy fires captain who warned of COVID-19 spread on aircraft carrier
- Marist and SUNY Geneseo students face homelessness
- Louisiana ranks fourth in the US for coronavirus deaths
- Honduran doctor warns of “collapsed health care system” as coronavirus toll grows
- Germany marked an increase in violent attacks on refugees in 2019
- GE Appliances and GE Aviation workers fight unsafe conditions in Kentucky and Massachusetts
- Europe: Over 520,000 coronavirus cases and almost 38,000 deaths
- El-Sisi uses coronavirus pandemic to tighten grip on Egypt
- Banks set to make billions from stimulus measures
- Michigan’s confirmed COVID-19 cases surge past 10,000 as Democratic officials attempt to deflect responsibility
- Thousands face coronavirus disaster on cruise ships as governments close their ports
- One million infected with coronavirus worldwide, more than 50,000 dead
- Mounting protests in Canada’s construction industry over lack of safety measures to counter COVID-19
- General Motors imposes wage cuts and layoffs on Brazilian workers with aid of unions
- More Ford, FCA workers die from COVID-19 in Detroit area
- Australian governments threaten the safety and lives of thousands of cruise ship workers
- Julian Assange still held on remand as coronavirus spreads through UK prisons
- With publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing memoir, venomous #MeToo attacks continue
2020-04-04
- Massachusetts veterans hospital investigated for COVID-19 catastrophe
- Deaths from COVID-19 in New York double in three days
- Amid war threats, Washington blocks UN resolution demanding end to sanctions
- Turkish workers strike as bosses keep them at work despite COVID-19
- US health care workers face retribution for criticizing unsafe hospital conditions
- Russian doctors, nurses protest against horrifying conditions in hospitals
- Australian airline exploits pandemic in an attempt to sink rivals
- The class issues in the coronavirus pandemic
- Nepal: Masses confront enormous hardships from coronavirus pandemic
- Working-class Londoners risk their lives fighting COVID-19 as the city’s billionaires decamp
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobless numbers head toward Depression levels
- Ireland woefully unprepared for COVID-19 onslaught
- Amid India’s calamitous lockdown, Modi seeks to censor coronavirus reports
- Coronavirus crisis: Hunger and malnutrition spread in Germany
- Nearly three years after the Grenfell Tower inferno, flammable cladding still widely used in UK
- Mounting opposition among German health care, industrial workers
- As infections and deaths soar, Georgia governor issues “stay-at-home” directive
- Unemployment surges in Europe amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Ecuadorians protest bodies of COVID-19 victims being left in the streets
- The COVID-19 pandemic: The political issues confronting educators
- Letter from a Caterpillar worker in Illinois: “This is class biological warfare”
- UK: Elderly will be left to die as coronavirus plunges care sector into crisis
- Canadian government’s bailout increases banks’ control over economy and state
- Black & Privileged: Poor African Americans “intrude” on an affluent Chicago neighborhood
- UK corporations scramble for coronavirus bailout funds
- Pandemic accelerates union-government-employer collaboration in Australia
- Chicago Amazon workers demonstrate to demand protection from COVID-19
- Africa’s confirmed cases rise to 7,600, as 314 die from the coronavirus
2020-04-06
- Strikes, protests continue against unsafe working conditions amid coronavirus pandemic
- Australian government “pauses” hounding welfare recipients in face of massive jobless queues
- The ventilator shortage, capitalism and the fight for socialist planning
- This week in history: April 6-12
- New UK Labour leader Keir Starmer offers national unity with Tory government
- As COVID-19 death toll rises, the ruling classes agitate for a premature return to work
- Ontario warns of more than 10,000 COVID-19 deaths as pandemic spreads rapidly across Canada
- Nurses across the US demand equipment for protection against COVID-19
- US auto companies push for return to work at parts distribution centers
- Anarchy of capitalist food production exposed as dairy farmers ordered to dump milk
- Fired aircraft carrier commander has COVID-19
- Australian Committee for Public Education holds successful online meeting on pandemic crisis
- New Zealand school at centre of escalating COVID-19 outbreak
- Prominent jazz musicians die in COVID-19 pandemic
- IYSSE (Australia) online lecture Tuesday night: Socialist Alternative and the politics of the pseudo-left
- Warning of food riots, Rome sends 20,000 troops to patrol southern Italy
- Bronx hospital physician provides harrowing account of conditions on front lines of pandemic
- Doctors in Germany will soon have to decide on life and death
- French state covered up mass COVID-19 deaths in retirement homes
- As Europe’s COVID-19 death toll nears 50,000, British PM Johnson admitted to hospital
- Indian medical staff speak to WSWS on COVID-19 pandemic
- Detroit nurses forced to leave hospital after protesting understaffing
- Ten years since WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder
- No to the domestic deployment of the German army!
- As it releases thousands of prisoners, UK government keeps Julian Assange locked-up in danger
- Quarantined Amazon worker in Texas denied sick pay, unable to get tested for coronavirus
- African continent in social and economic chaos as official COVID-19 cases hit 10,000
2020-04-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Wisconsin state Supreme Court overturns governor’s action, orders in-person voting today
- US military calls for another $20 billion to counter China
- “We aren’t going to take it anymore:” Anger among UPS workers as Teamsters union seeks to rein in logistics strike wave
- At least 33 New York City transit workers dead as contagion spreads on buses and trains
- Who is the new UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer?
- Sri Lankan SEP to re-broadcast online public meeting: “The COVID-19 pandemic and capitalist barbarism”
- Scottish care workers speak out against conditions and treatment during COVID-19 crisis
- Bernie Sanders’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic: A lifeline for the ruling class
- Scottish National Party gripped by factional warfare after Alex Salmond acquitted of concocted sex charges
- British Queen appeals for national unity across an unbridgeable class divide
- As Peru escalates militarization, COVID-19 spreads to remote rural areas
- Fiction, reality and the global crisis of capitalism
- Share buybacks have been the “only net source of money entering the stock market” since 2008
- New Jersey hospitals cut staff as COVID-19 cases surge
- German government expands war operations despite coronavirus pandemic
- Thousands walk out in Matamoros as Mexican government lets corporations continue production during pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic threatens millions in war-torn Libya and Syria
- Liberals discover a new savior in New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
- Emergency amidst Emergency—Modi government denies Internet access imperiling lives
- The deadly consequences of the gutting of America’s public health infrastructure
- Mounting anger among US healthcare workers as watchdog warns of “severe” supply shortages
- Refugees left to die as COVID-19 spreads across Greece
- German police claim latest racist rampage was not the work of a far-right extremist
- Thousands more COVID-19 deaths in Europe as British prime minister moved to intensive care unit
- US hospitals raise prices, cuts costs and lay off staff in midst of COVID-19 crisis
- Former Dallas police chief who used a robot to kill shooting suspect appointed Chicago’s top cop
- Mounting coronavirus death toll in Canada’s elderly care homes
- Rediscovering Hallelujah (1929), director King Vidor’s sensitive film with all-black cast
- Trump nominates White House lawyer to oversee $500 billion bailout slush fund
- Australian unions tell employers: “You can get everything you want”
2020-04-08
- Worker revolt spreads, demanding protections from coronavirus
- The death of singer-songwriter Bill Withers, 1938-2020: “I never tried to be a star, but to be an artist”
- UK: Health workers threatened for wearing PPE and reporting danger to their lives
- Thai government introduces lockdowns amid criticisms of its pandemic response
- Sri Lanka: Billions to big business as government prepares new attacks on working people
- Postal workers at four UK depots take unofficial strike action over lack of safety measures
- Africa’s refugees and internally displaced: The weakest link in the human chain
- Vindictive court rulings prove British state wants Assange dead
- As pandemic rages in New York, new budget allows for massive cuts in social programs
- New York records worst death toll in pandemic, as 731 die in one day
- British prime minister: A victim of his “herd immunity” policy
- OSHA issues citations to those responsible for New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel collapse
- Canada’s health minister promotes “herd immunity,” after admitting government’s coronavirus failure
- Grocery worker dies from COVID-19 infection in suburban Maryland
- Africa’s elite build VIP hospitals for themselves, leaving workers to die
- Acting US Navy secretary resigns amid furor over firing of aircraft carrier Captain Crozier
- World Health Organization warns against premature ending of social distancing measures
- Unions agree to salary furlough at British Airways
- US automakers planning return to work before coronavirus danger subsides
- US deal with Taliban breaks down while coronavirus spreads in Afghanistan
2020-04-09
- Workers oppose rush back to work as death toll rises among grocery, transit and autoworkers
- Wisconsin’s pandemic election: A public health disaster
- UK social worker speaks out on unsafe conditions sanctioned by management and unions
- Bernie Sanders ends campaign, calls on supporters to back Biden
- At IYSSE (Australia) online lecture, Nick Beams exposes Socialist Alternative and the pseudo-left
- Police in Pakistan beat and arrest health care workers protesting over Coronavirus safety concerns, lack of PPE
- Amid mounting COVID-19 death toll, White House demands businesses “open with a big bang”
- Pennsylvania nursing home says all 800 patients and staff have COVID-19
- Rapid growth of COVID-19 in eastern Pennsylvania
- Social crisis looms in Pakistan as COVID-19 pandemic surges
- New Zealand government says unemployment will hit “double digits”
- Musicians speak out on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Sri Lanka government intensifies crackdown on social media
- Hundreds of thousands of UK jobs threatened as coronavirus spreads
- Germany: Weighing economic interests vs. human life in the coronavirus pandemic
- EU talks on COVID-19 pandemic response collapse
- Nurses at Elmhurst Hospital speak out: “I’ve never seen so many young people die”
- The educational and social impact of global school closures
- Detroit nurses battling to save patients and themselves from COVID-19
- Modi signals India’s calamitous 21-day lockdown to be extended, as coronavirus cases surge
- UK social care system faces collapse amid spike in coronavirus deaths
- Brazilian workers clash with unions over coronavirus crisis
- Bailout of US corporations expands while workers see little relief
- Labor and the unions help push corporate bailout through Australian parliament
- Decline in COVID-19 testing casts doubt on claims Australia is “flattening the curve”
- Alberta doctors protest UCP government’s funding cuts amid coronavirus pandemic
2020-04-10
- UPS Worldport employee in Louisville, Kentucky dies from COVID-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- As Trump attacks health experts, World Health Organization warns against early return to work
- Lack of ventilators in UK means patients left to die
- Russia’s workers sent back to factories as coronavirus continues to spread
- Social and economic catastrophe intensifies as 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment
- COVID-19 and tropical cyclone hit South Pacific Islands
- UK government ignored scientific advice and treated COVID-19 as a public order issue
- Trump executive order asserts US property rights in outer space
- Grand jury records in notorious 1946 US lynching case to remain sealed
- After 14 London transport workers die: Unite union and Labour mayor insist “PPE is not required”
- Three Illinois prisoners die of COVID-19 as Chicago jail identified as a “hotspot”
- London bus drivers speak out: “They are doing absolutely nothing to protect us!”
- International Labour Organisation warns of massive job losses from COVID-19
- Europe’s investors celebrate stock market rally as thousands die of COVID-19
- The COVID-19 crisis in New York City: Why Elmhurst has become a center of the crisis
- World coronavirus cases surge past 1.6 million
- Colewell: The people and places in America that don’t count
- Australian government bails out private childcare industry
- Deaths from COVID-19 mount in German elderly care homes
- Canada: More than 5 million workers apply for government assistance amid coronavirus pandemic
- Brazilian ruling class backs growing military control as COVID-19 pandemic grips country
- New York Times columnist urges Biden “national unity” cabinet
- Auto companies plot out plan to restart production in North America despite coronavirus pandemic
- Australian governments prepare to push workers back into unsafe workplaces
- “We are expendable”: Delta flight attendant speaks on corporate recklessness at US airlines
2020-04-11
- Wolves guard the hen house: Who is overseeing the $2 trillion stimulus package?
- Sanders endorses Biden: The “political revolution” that never was! - with Joseph Kishore
- Australian hospitals lack ventilators and staff to deal with pandemic
- Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Turkish government steps up attacks on workers
- Testimony from US and Canadian inmates exposes deadly conditions inside prisons
- New Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledges stepped-up “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt
- The end of Sanders’ campaign deepens crisis in Democratic Socialists of America
- Spanish government to force workers in non-essential industries back to work
- Against rising social opposition, Sri Lankan prime minister calls for “unity” against COVID-19
- New York Philharmonic forced to reinstate two musicians victimized by #MeToo campaign
- Trump’s campaign to reopen businesses risks hundreds of thousands of lives
- Rapid spread of COVID-19 in US meat processing facilities
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Japanese PM imposes coronavirus state of emergency
- US blocks IMF loan for Iran’s fight against COVID-19
- Trump administration using pandemic to deport 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers to Mexico
- German hospitals become COVID-19 hotspots for health care workers
- UK: Heathrow Airport demands workers to take pay cut or face dismissal
- New York City digging mass graves for coronavirus victims
- A conversation with Mark Harris, director of Black & Privileged
- “This is forced labor”: Six GM workers stricken with COVID-19 at parts warehouse
- Thousands line up at US food pantries as hunger surges due to coronavirus crisis
- Thousands of Florida residents claim unemployment benefits as state governor says schools must reopen despite increasing COVID-19 infections
- European governments plot return to work in midst of pandemic
- Detroit nurse fired by Sinai-Grace Hospital for demanding action to improve desperate conditions
- Cruise ship workers expose deadly conditions, financial ruin in light of coronavirus pandemic
- Quebec government, big business push for return to work as COVID-19 deaths soar
- Interview with Bronx emergency room nurse: “Some critical patients are not getting the medication and IV pumps they need"
- Brendan McGeever’s Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution: Distorting history in the service of identity politics
- A year since the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
- African economies in free fall as coronavirus pandemic worsens
2020-04-13
- This week in history: April 13-19
- Spanish unions support back-to-work order amid raging pandemic
- Sri Lankan SEP holds online meeting on COVID-19 pandemic
- What is behind the high percentage of COVID-19 deaths among African Americans?
- Puerto Rico braces for COVID-19 peak with lowest per capita testing
- Country singer-songwriter John Prine dies in pandemic
- Union seeks to block strike as Polish Amazon workers contract COVID-19
- Reality of American capitalism exposed: Millions line up for food aid as pandemic spreads
- Wholesale move to online education across the US: A nightmare for students and educators
- Last-minute deal on oil production cuts
- Navajo Nation institutes lockdown as COVID-19 cases climb
- Three years since Indian court ordered 13 framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers jailed for life
- Coronavirus hitting hard in Missouri cities
- COVID-19 infecting nursing homes across New England
- Interview with a retired Detroit school bus driver about the impact of COVID-19
- IYSSE (Australia) lecture this Tuesday: Socialism versus identity politics and post-modernism
- South Korea to hold general election
- German nurses, carers, transport and delivery workers raise their voices
- Fired researcher Mauro Ferrari denounces EU inaction on COVID-19
- European Union to spend half a trillion euros on imperialist interests in coronavirus bailout
- COVID-19 deaths surpass 76,000 in Europe as Spanish government sends millions back to work
- Science vs. Trump: The dangerous promotion of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19
- As COVID-19 death toll mounts, US ruling class demands a more rapid return to work
- Workers walk out at Ontario care home due to unsafe conditions amid coronavirus outbreak
- Brendan McGeever’s Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution: Distorting history in the service of identity politics
- Biden joins the “back-to-work” bandwagon
- Julian Assange’s partner Stella Moris speaks out: “His life is on the brink”
2020-04-14
- COVID-19 will compound catastrophic impact of Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Republican Supreme Court justice defeated in Wisconsin vote
- Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela and the endless night
- Turkey’s COVID-19 prison amnesty excludes political prisoners, journalists
- Transit agencies and governments continue to expose workers and riders to coronavirus pandemic internationally
- Spanish workers furious as unions support “back to work” in COVID-19 pandemic
- Australian government demands staged reopening of the school system
- Sanders endorses Biden: The “political revolution” that never was!
- Trump, the media, and the COVID-19 disaster
- As first sailor from COVID-19-stricken carrier dies, Pentagon stresses readiness for war
- Media glorifies New Zealand government’s pro-business response to the pandemic
- New York City makes first wave of massive budget cuts to public education
- Australian university union in backroom talks to slash jobs and conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Five Michigan grocery and retail workers die from COVID-19
- Meatpacking workers demand protection as pandemic hits US food supply chain
- German airline Lufthansa receives multibillion-euro bailout, prepares to cut 18,000 jobs
- A letter from a frontline nurse at the UK’s Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Boris Johnson’s praise for the National Health Service: Hypocrisy without limit
- UK NHS workers speak to the WSWS: “Is it worth clapping the NHS without ensuring the safety of frontline workers?”
- Indonesian authorities announce limited restrictions, despite the alarming spread of COVID-19
- As COVID-19 pandemic surges across India, business presses for quick return to work
- Immigrants at US detention centers lead hunger strikes, face persecution demanding protections from pandemic
- Democrats join with Trump in bipartisan push for rapid return to work
- Australian construction workers denounce union enforcement of unsafe conditions
- The impact of the pandemic on childcare in the US: A social catastrophe affecting generations
- Canada’s coronavirus wage-subsidy tailored to propping up business, not protecting workers’ incomes
- No work without protection! Berlin transport worker issues appeal for independent workers committees
2020-04-15
- Sanders endorses Biden: The “political revolution” that never was!
- Massive increase in toxic emissions at Australian coal power plant
- With anger mounting over pandemic response, unions make pitch to save American capitalism
- Ugandan government touts malarial drug chloroquine as a COVID-19 cure
- Australia: Two hospitals close in Tasmania after COVID-19 outbreak
- Wall Street feasts on death
- Detroit Symphony musicians to take 20 percent pay cut
- Trump calls on states to move quickly to reopen their economies
- Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden for president
- COVID-19 devastating the elderly at nursing homes across the US
- North Carolina sanitation workers demand increased protection after co-worker’s death
- A letter from a concerned UK nurse to the WSWS
- German National Academy of Sciences demands reopening of primary schools
- Modi extends India’s coronavirus lockdown till May 3
- World economy to take biggest hit since Great Depression
- British actress Honor Blackman dies at 94: “I have always been a daredevil”
- Germany: Hesse politicians and employers expose workers to risk of COVID-19 infection
- Greek medical workers demand funds to combat coronavirus pandemic
- Deaths continue to soar as European governments step up back-to-work plans
- The global elite seek their pandemic retreats
- COVID-19 deaths break US record as virus spreads through every state
- Ocasio-Cortez offers her services to the Biden campaign
- Coronavirus exposes Chilean two-tiered health system as deathtrap
- Canadian workers denounce lack of safety measures and forced labor
- Bolivia’s coup regime extends COVID-19 quarantine amid repression
- When it comes to Joe Biden, New York Times abandons “Believe women”
- Garment workers protest in Bangladesh as COVID-19 spreads
2020-04-16
- Steep fall in US economy and worse is to come
- Munich tram drivers speak out on dangerous conditions during coronavirus pandemic
- Royal Mail’s putting profits before safety results in deaths of UK postal workers
- Australian police use COVID-19 emergency powers to ban refugee detention protest
- Trump defunds the World Health Organization: A “crime against humanity”
- France summons Chinese ambassador after embassy criticizes “herd immunity” policy
- Pakistan “reopening” much of its economy as COVID-19 cases and deaths spike
- World famous Mayo Clinic cuts pay, furloughs employees amidst COVID-19 pandemic
- French President Macron announces a premature end to quarantine in the interests of the financial elite
- COVID-19 pandemic hits Lebanon, piling health crisis onto political and economic meltdown
- COVID-19 and the role of Labor and the unions in Australia
- Unemployment already at Great Depression levels in Australia
- An interview with a foreign-trained doctor prevented from fighting COVID-19 in Canada
- Working-class immigrants terrorized by Trump administration avoid COVID-19 testing, treatment
- Five Came Back: Hollywood filmmakers and World War II
- With the collapse of health care system, Ecuador is the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Latin America
- Ocasio-Cortez offers her services to the Biden campaign
- Coronavirus toll reaches two million worldwide, nearly 30,000 US dead
- Reckless coal plant demolition covers Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood in dust amid coronavirus lockdown
- Thousands of UK care home residents dead in COVID-19 pandemic
- Canada: Thousands of foreign-trained medical staff prevented from assisting in COVID-19 fight
- As COVID-19 pandemic rages, World Bank backs restructuring of education in Brazil
- Amazon’s Jeff Bezos cashes in on coronavirus pandemic, adding $24 billion to his fortune
- As COVID-19 spreads through the ranks, Pentagon stages show of force against China
- Amazon cracks down on rebellious workers as first COVID-19 fatality is reported
- Outrage grows as Amazon workers die for Bezos’ profits
2020-04-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hundreds of COVID-19 cases among US Postal Service workers
- US ramps up attacks on China over COVID-19
- UK universities use coronavirus crisis to make hundreds of temporary staff redundant
- Coronavirus-driven slump has wiped out 22 million jobs in the US
- As transit worker deaths continue rising, MTA promises families $500,000 in blood money
- More than thirty dead as tornadoes rip across southeastern US
- TNA offers a “democratic” veneer to Sri Lankan president’s coronavirus emergency powers
- Australian teachers speak out against unsafe conditions
- Sanders tells supporters: It is “irresponsible” not to campaign for Biden
- US rural hospitals close amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Trump administration’s “back to work” drive will fuel pandemic
- More temporary plant closures as workers protest conditions at US meatpacking facilities
- South Korea’s Democratic Party wins general election in landslide
- Pentagon escalates tensions with Iran in Persian Gulf
- European states demand return to work as COVID-19 cases top 1 million
- Detroit Democratic Mayor Duggan outlines layoffs, wage and service cuts amid exploding city budget crisis
- Curtiz: A film about the filming of Casablanca in 1942
- Bournemouth nurse’s letter to WSWS prompts widespread discussion on dangers facing NHS workers during COVID-19 pandemic
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro sacks health minister as Amazonian capital of Manaus is first to face health collapse
- Canada: British Columbia’s New Democrat government defends corporate interests as coronavirus runs rampant
- Australian governments pushing for premature return to work
2020-04-18
- As US deaths soar, bipartisan back-to-work drive guarantees the explosive spread of pandemic
- Ukrainian capital Kiev engulfed in smog from wildfires near Chernobyl
- Trump tweets support for far-right protests against social distancing orders
- Worker resistance grows internationally as governments push premature return to work
- Sri Lanka: Oppose return to work in unsafe pandemic conditions! No to job destruction!
- Authorities seeking to force coronavirus-stricken ship out of Australian waters
- Australian ruling elite seizes on pandemic to demand harsh economic restructuring
- Washington D.C. legislature endorses limited rent relief, bars assistance to undocumented immigrants
- Star Trek: Picard—The prospects of an aging icon
- The pandemic, profits and the capitalist justification of suffering and death
- New Zealand businesses, media call for lifting of lockdown measures
- Seventeen bodies found piled in a New Jersey nursing home
- Nurse who exposed conditions at Massachusetts nursing home dies from COVID-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Pentagon activates military units to defend Washington
- Florida orders National Guard to assist in nursing home COVID-19 testing
- Detroit-area hospitals slash jobs and close facilities to cut costs during COVID-19 crisis
- Big business representatives defend hospital closures in Germany
- UK government’s herd immunity policy denounced by leading scientist
- Chinese economy contracted by 6.8 percent in first quarter
- Canadian elite promotes anti-China campaign over coronavirus
- Calls for early reopening of UK schools met with widespread opposition
- Brazilian nurses strike over deadly conditions as COVID-19 deaths mount
- German automakers, unions and government collaborate to restart production
- Intensive CIA spying on Assange targeted his infant child
2020-04-20
- Youth and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Truck drivers, logistics workers face high risk from COVID-19 exposure
- This week in history: April 20-26
- Walkouts by Canadian transit workers protest lack of COVID-19 protections
- Spanish workers strike against being forced to work without protection
- Millions in the UK go hungry in the shadow of COVID-19
- French prime minister outlines end to quarantine as coronavirus deaths reach almost 20,000
- As US deaths exceed 40,000, Trump escalates reckless back-to-work campaign
- UK think tank urges pension cuts to pay for pandemic
- After decades of austerity, Ontario struggles to cope with surge in COVID-19 cases
- Outrage among Australian university workers over secret NTEU pay cut talks
- New York City mayor announces $827 million in cuts to public education
- Hundreds line up to receive free food outside of Washington, D.C. area supermarkets
- COVID-19 kills jazz saxophone master Lee Konitz
- SEP (US) Presidential candidate Joseph Kishore to participate in IYSSE (Australia) online meeting tonight
- Australian governments refuse to assist international students amid pandemic
- International students in Australia speak out: “Governments have done nothing to help us”
- Millions of internal migrant workers suffering under India’s lockdown
- How German CEOs are profiting from the coronavirus crisis
- Europe’s pandemic death toll passes 100,000
- Workers strike across Ciudad Juárez, Mexico as COVID-19 death toll rises in factories
- Over 1,000 sailors on French carrier Charles de Gaulle sick with COVID-19
- Biden ads against Trump: Blame China for impact of coronavirus, not the ruling class
- Letter from Amazon CEO Jeffrey Bezos seeks to cover for efforts to exploit the COVID-19 crisis for profit
- Apple and Google implementing smartphone-based contact tracing technology
- American Historical Review publishes letter on 1619 Project by Tom Mackaman and David North
2020-04-21
- Youth and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Workers call out unsafe conditions at Tasmanian hospitals
- San Leandro, California police execute man suffering mental health crisis in front of dozens of people in packed Wal-Mart
- Mass COVID-19 infection among migrant workers in Singapore
- Australian journalist still faces prosecution despite illegal police raid
- Quebec nurses expose shortages that enabled COVID-19 to ravage long-term care facilities
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of economic nationalism
- Oil price contracts take historic plunge into negative territory
- How the Obama administration ignored the pandemic threat
- Over 100 health and care workers have died from COVID-19 in the UK
- New Zealand government moves to end lockdown
- Striking against death: Maquiladora workers walk out across northern Mexico
- Trump threatens to adjourn Congress
- COVID-19 in New York City claims the lives of at least 27 homeless people
- If Nazism had prevailed: The Amazon series The Man in the High Castle
- COVID-19 lockdown leaves Gulf states’ migrant workers penniless in unsanitary conditions
- US farm relief program hands billions to agribusiness while millions lack food
- Trump administration escalates war against public education through Wall Street bailout
- UK government in crisis over back-to-work drive
- Global COVID-19 infections, deaths rise amid drive to revive corporate profit-making
- Protests and looting break out in Colombia over failure to distribute aid amid COVID-19 quarantine
- Australian government joins Washington’s anti-China campaign over pandemic
- Amazon concealed COVID-19 case at Pennsylvania warehouse
2020-04-22
- US health care workers protest government back-to-work demands
- Erdogan opposes lockdown as Turkey’s COVID-19 pandemic overtakes China
- Baltimore, Maryland approves measure allowing for police aerial surveillance
- South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee reopening as coronavirus deaths mount
- Trump announces plan to halt all immigration to US
- US safety agencies bow to corporations as workers file record number of complaints
- Thousands view online meeting of UK SEP outlining a socialist perspective on the pandemic
- Oil price plunge continues
- New York City mayor declares “wartime” budget
- Nova Scotia gunman kills 22 in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting
- Death toll rises at veterans hospital in Massachusetts
- One Hundred and Fifty Years Since the Birth of Lenin
- Germany’s Left Party backs multibillion-euro bailout of banks and big business
- Kazakhstan: Hospital workers demand resignation of government official over spread of COVID-19
- Real jobless rate could reach 30 percent in Australia
- Israel: Gantz agrees to national emergency government with Netanyahu
- As COVID-19 deaths pass 17,000, UK corporations scramble for bailout funds
- South Indian film directors discuss coronavirus impact on local movie industry
- India: Modi government moves to “reopen” economy as virus cases surge
- College students in New York City speak on the impact of the pandemic
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro escalates coup threats as ruling class pushes “back-to-work” orders
- Germany: Opening Berlin schools risks the lives of teachers, pupils and their families
- Beaumont Health lays off 2,500 and eliminates 450 jobs in Metro Detroit
- Senate passes another bipartisan bailout for business
- Australia’s national cabinet continues back-to-work push
- Build rank-and-file committees at Amazon! For maximum safety, universal testing, and workers’ control of production!
- Amazon shuts down French distribution centers after court requires protection of employees from coronavirus
2020-04-23
- Unrest spreads in France in response to police brutality
- Shipyard workers launch wildcat strike in Norfolk, Virginia
- US provocatively dispatches warships to South China Sea
- Australian court ruling means continued imprisonment for Tamil refugees from Biloela
- Australia Post announces major restructure threatening thousands of jobs
- The concluding episodes of The Plot Against America: In 1940, an America gone fascist
- Merchants of death: Multibillion-dollar bailout for arms industry amid rising COVID-19 toll
- National Guard deployed to Pennsylvania nursing home stricken by COVID-19 outbreak
- Mass deaths in New York nursing homes
- Rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea halted
- Twenty-nine London transport workers dead from COVID-19, as anger rises over unsafe working conditions
- World Food Programme warns: COVID-19 pandemic will cause “famines of biblical proportions”
- European Union summit argues over corona bonds
- Despite restrictions eviction notices still being delivered in New Orleans amid pandemic
- Hundreds of laid-off San Diego, California teachers begin online teaching
- Canada: Fired for criticizing lack of PPE, Edmonton bus driver speaks out
- As US governors rush to reopen businesses, “Excess death” counts begin to reveal true toll of pandemic
- Renewed Ebola outbreak threatens the Congo as COVID-19 spreads
- Britain’s coronavirus testing fiasco is a product of herd immunity strategy
- Germany’s right-wing Bild newspaper agitates against China
- The bipartisan “small business” swindle: Billions for the banks and corporations, pennies for workers and shopkeepers
- Amazon workers continue job actions and protests, as tech employees plan Friday sickout
- Hostility to workers’ questions at online Australian union event
2020-04-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Thousands of jobs on the line after Virgin Australia goes into administration
- US unemployment up 26 million in five weeks
- Tyson poultry workers in Tennessee speak out on terrible health and safety conditions
- New York City transit workers must form rank-and-file committees to save their lives!
- Steel mills close and layoffs mount throughout the United States
- COVID-19 deaths in Scotland 79 percent higher than official figures
- “Back to work” campaign in the US will lead to surge in coronavirus deaths
- US coronavirus deaths approach 50,000
- New Zealand teachers and nurses oppose easing of lockdown
- Tens of thousands of Nepali workers stranded abroad by COVID-19 disaster
- North Dakota General Electric wind turbine plant closes as 128 people test positive for COVID-19
- Meatpacking plants at center of many North America COVID-19 outbreaks
- London bus drivers say: “Give public transport workers protection or shut it down”
- Japan’s medical system collapsing as COVID-19 cases surge
- US propaganda campaign promotes lies blaming China for COVID-19
- Foodbank use soars across Canada, as 8 million apply for government aid
- US House overwhelmingly passes $484 billion “relief” package, refilling corporate slush fund
- US autoworkers oppose rush to reopen plants
- Unions collude with companies to keep non-essential UK ASOS warehouse and retail businesses running during pandemic
2020-04-25
- As US passes 50,000 deaths, workers strike against back-to-work campaign
- Amid warnings of famine and unrest in Venezuela, Maduro renews talks with US-backed opposition
- Tennessee state government plans to lift social-distancing measures as health care crisis looms
- Sri Lankan president says military to impose “discipline” when lockdown ends
- Sincerely Louis C.K.—Comedian returns with a stand-up special
- Former leaders of Students for a Democratic Society try to drum up support for Biden
- Scottish National Party spearheads UK-wide return to work campaign
- Coronavirus sweeps through Russian medical facilities
- Australia’s national cabinet targets teachers to ramp up back-to-work drive
- Spain: Podemos Labour Ministry accepts that hundreds of thousands will die from COVID-19
- Rasputin in the White House
- US elderly care devastated by the profit system
- Australia: Fifth resident dies at Sydney aged care home
- Minnesota meatpacking plant closes after two dozen workers test positive for COVID-19
- Senate Majority Leader McConnell calls for states to declare bankruptcy and gut pensions
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- India’s BJP and its Hindu-right allies scapegoat Muslims for spread of pandemic
- Hong Kong arrests prominent pan-democrat activists
- Henry Ford Health System lays off 2,800 as COVID-19 continues to ravage Detroit
- At least 130 US health care workers dead from COVID-19
- GM threatens to end medical benefits for temporary workers at parts depot
- German government endangers the health and lives of millions with return to work and schools
- Los Angeles mayor releases plan for massive budget cutting and city worker furloughs
- Macron government uses more lies to push May 11 return to work
- As coronavirus cases climb, Chicago city council expands mayor’s emergency powers
- COVID-19 pandemic pushes UK charity sector into crisis
- UK: Millions of pounds donated to the National Health Service as coronavirus crisis continues
- Canadian government sends military into care homes as it pushes for a premature return to work
- Food delivery workers in Brazil join international strikes against unsafe conditions
2020-04-27
- GM contract worker victimized over COVID warning speaks about his case
- Australian university union continues sellout talks despite members’ anger
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- Behind the clinical test of hydroxychloroquine in Detroit
- Larry Summers and the Biden campaign
- Why Gotabhaya Rajapakse wants Sri Lankan election held as soon as possible
- Police in Seine-Saint-Denis suburbs of Paris prepare for food riots
- Romanian harvest worker in Germany dies of COVID-19
- US billionaires increase wealth by $280 billion since March, as millions are unable to get unemployment benefits
- More than three million individual readers have accessed the World Socialist Web Site since the beginning of 2020
- ACLU study predicts an additional 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in US prisons
- Off-duty Louisiana police officer shoots 14-year-old in the head
- The deadly return to work begins
- US nursing homes: A goldmine for real estate and private equity firms
- Netherlands’ criminal herd-immunity policy puts hospitals on brink of collapse
- Leaked UK Labour Party anti-Semitism report: A filthy witch-hunt exposed
- As mass layoffs intensify, tens of millions in US stand to lose health insurance
- The Innocence Files on Netflix: Freeing frame-up victims from prison
- Estimated £515 monthly loss to UK households due to COVID-19 the tip of the iceberg
- Las Vegas mayor offers up 2.3 million residents as “control group” by reopening during the pandemic
- EU steps up push for return to work amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Detroit bus drivers and riders exposed to COVID-19
- Workers at Dublin Bus rebel at lack of personal protective equipment
- Germany: Daimler and VW boost production and demand billions in taxpayers’ money
- Confirmed coronavirus cases in the US surpass one million
- Columbia University graduate workers strike against university’s COVID-19 response
- Canadian autoworkers resist Unifor and Detroit Three rush to restart operations
- As Bolsonaro pushes to reopen schools, Brazilian state governments escalate attacks on education
- Australian government introduces spying app as part of back-to-work push
- Application for delay in Assange extradition hearing as COVID-19 sweeps through UK prisons
- More than two-thirds of US Amazon facilities may have had coronavirus cases
2020-04-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Strikes, job actions escalate as corporations rush to reopen amidst coronavirus pandemic
- Germany: IG Metall and works council force Volkswagen workers back despite coronavirus danger
- Canada’s Trudeau spearheads reckless back-to-work drive in alliance with hard-right provincial governments
- Tiger King on Netflix: Approach with caution!
- Is Sri Lankan President Rajapakse plotting a coup under cover of anti-pandemic measures?
- Protests in Somalia after police killing during pandemic lockdown
- German parliament president calls for sacrificing lives for corporate profits
- El Salvador’s president brands gangs and opposition as “plagues”
- Despite anticipating more deaths, Australian governments demand return to work
- Spain’s Podemos party acquiesces to legal persecution of its member Isabel Serra
- The Great Wall Street Heist of 2020
- Nancy Pelosi endorses Biden
- New York state’s economy spirals into the abyss under the effects of COVID-19
- Nebraska businesses to reopen even as COVID-19 infections at meatpacking plants rise at five times the national average
- India: Vicious attack on Maruti Suzuki trainees highlights plight of migrant workers during COVID-19 lockdown
- Detroit nursing home residents and care workers infected and dying from COVID-19
- Miners with black lung face COVID-19 danger as US mines continue operations
- Brazilian nurses go on strike in Manaus amid collapse of health care system
- Johnson returns to Downing Street to map out end of COVID-19 lockdown
- California ICE detainee speaks to the WSWS as coronavirus spreads
- Growing resistance in Germany to the opening up of schools
- Six-year statute of limitations elapses with no criminal indictments by Flint Water Prosecution Team
- Two New York City health care workers commit suicide within 48 hours
- Brazilian justice minister resigns, charging Bolsonaro with interference in the Federal Police
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital management and Royal College of Nursing attack frontline nurse for exposing PPE shortages
- Assange extradition hearing delayed following defence appeal
- Coronavirus antibody tests lack validity and sufficient accuracy to offer reliable guarantee of immunity
2020-04-29
- Millions of US workers blocked from applying for jobless benefits
- Australian schools reopening as spearhead of “back to work” campaign
- COVID-19 infection at sporting fixtures underscores criminality of Johnson government’s herd immunity policy
- Round two of the “Paycheck Protection Program”: Another disaster for US small businesses and their employees
- 10,000 nursing home workers vote to strike in Illinois in the face of life-threatening working conditions
- UK postal worker says: Royal Mail workers need to set up rank-and-file committees
- Trump orders meatpacking workers back on the job as opposition mounts to back-to-work campaign
- BBC Panorama exposes government responsibility for UK health worker deaths
- New Zealand: Daily Blog ramps up anti-China campaign
- Classical musicians, orchestras and opera companies confront COVID-19 lockdown
- Global arms spending tops $1.9 trillion as fight against COVID-19 is starved of resources
- Trump orders meatpacking plants to remain open, as coronavirus sickens thousands of workers
- Protester killed in Lebanon during riots against soaring food prices
- Jaffna health workers complain of poor facilities as pandemic spreads in Sri Lanka
- Quebec government threatens thousands of lives with precipitous return to work
- COVID-19 cases increase across Illinois as many counties push to reopen
- Australian health workers infected with COVID-19 but governments cover up full picture
- Pseudo-lefts ask: “What is the least we can accept?”
- Work resumes in Sri Lanka’s free trade zones but thousands are sacked
- Cuban working class facing disaster due to coronavirus-related tourism collapse
- With over 1 million coronavirus cases and 60,000 fatalities in the US, markets eager to get back to business
- As millions face destitution gravy train continues for US auto execs
- Coronavirus pandemic surges across South Asia, even as governments push for a return to work
- COVID-19’s devastating impact on artists
2020-04-30
- One World: Together At Home—A noble gesture married to official cynicism
- Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland announce plans for reopening region
- The lessons of the University of California grad student strike
- Citing COVID-19 crisis, Ontario teacher unions impose concession-filled contracts
- Sweden forced to admit significant under-counting of coronavirus deaths
- Sri Lankan president continues to entrench autocratic rule
- Spain ends confinement, moving to “new normal” as COVID-19 cases rise
- German students oppose reopening of schools
- Profits before human life: German parliament president Schäuble wins broad support in the establishment
- Ruby Princess cruise ship forced out of Australian waters with coronavirus stricken staff on board
- Majority of US veterans back full withdrawal from Afghanistan, other overseas conflicts
- Prime Minister Philippe announces premature end of the lockdown in France
- The coronavirus pandemic fuels the class struggle
- Despite over 100 transit worker deaths, New York Governor Cuomo and MTA push for unsafe return to work
- New York state cancels Democratic presidential primary
- German photomontage artist John Heartfield: A new online exhibition
- Aid group warns of 3.2 million COVID-19 deaths, 1 billion infections in war-torn countries
- Coronavirus deaths go unrecorded in Indonesia
- “Progressive” Tennessee Democratic mayor uses COVID-19 crisis to push budget cuts
- Food banks face supply and volunteer shortages as mass hunger rises in the US
- Stock markets surge as Fed pledges to continue corporate handouts
- UK coronavirus death toll passes 26,000 as government admits to 4,000 fatalities outside hospitals
- Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden
- Bernie Sanders poses as critic of corporate bailouts he voted for
- “Back to work” campaign extends to 21 US states as working-class opposition grows
- British Airways announces 12,000 redundancies amid global airline jobs massacre
- Tracy, California Amazon worker speaks out on coworker’s death
- Family members protest amid six more deaths at Australian aged care home
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