The United States is now being lashed by the storm of the coronavirus pandemic with hundreds of thousands of cases and 8,400 deaths (as of April 5), millions are unemployed, and federal relief payments have not yet arrived, so millions cannot pay their rent or mortgages. As of today, New York City is the epicenter with over 63,000 cases and 2,254 deaths. The disease here in New York is growing exponentially, and is expected to peak between April 9 and April 15. Yet despite the conditions, workers organize and fight back.
Workers Are More Valuable Than CEOs
7 April 2020, byThe coronavirus pandemic has revealed a simple fact: it’s low-wage workers that make our society run — not bankers, landlords, or CEOs.
To confront capitalism’s multifaceted crisis the bankers must be expropriated and the banks socialised
7 April 2020, byBank shares have been plunging since mid-February 2020. If the big and institutional holders are selling these urgently, it must be because they are at risk. Part 2 of the series: The Capitalist Pandemic, Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis
Economic crisis only because of the Corona pandemic?
6 April 2020, byWith the onset of an economic crisis that has been universally acknowledged since the end of March, two main questions arise: To what extent is the corona pandemic the starting point (or even the cause) of this crisis? And secondly: can the aid programmes that have been adopted prevent a deep and prolonged recession?
Against the crisis: The crisis is not an opportunity, it’s the enemy
6 April 2020, byThe Corona Pandemic and the economic crash that is currently shocking and shaking the world poses a massive danger for people around the world. For many capitalists the crisis is an opportunity, and for the capitalist system this is also the solution to underlying problems in the capitalist economy. COVID-19 is the creative destruction that capitalism needed in order to survive. This sounds perverse, and it truly is. Socialists must not only work to mitigate the worst effects of the crisis, but also understand the capitalist crisis as the enemy itself.
This Changes Everything
5 April 2020This editorial was published in the South African magazine Amandla Issue 69 31 March 2020.
Statement of Feminists and Women’s Rights Organizations from the Global South and marginalized communities in the Global North
5 April 2020The following statement has been endorsed by nearly 1160 individuals and women’s networks and organizations globally, from more than 100 countries, to demand States to adopt a feminist policy to address the extraordinary challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in a manner that is consistent with human rights standards and principles.
This initiative was initiated by women from the Global South and marginalized communities in the Global North and was coordinated by the Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR).
Call of the indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and peoples organizations of Latin America.
5 April 2020The crisis that the COVID-19 has provoked globally presents a crossroads to the peoples of Abya Yala - Latin America. The popular organizations are the first line of resistance against the worst expressions of the decomposing system:
Covid-19 in Sweden: “We are suffering the full extent of our broken healthcare system”
4 April 2020, byThe Guardian reports: A petition signed by more than 2,000 doctors, scientists, and professors last week – including the chairman of the Nobel Foundation, Prof Carl-Henrik Heldin – called on the government to introduce more stringent containment measures. “We’re not testing enough, we’re not tracking, we’re not isolating enough – we have let the virus loose,” said Prof Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér, a virus immunology researcher at the Karolinska Institute. “They are leading us to catastrophe.”