As states reopen for business, the coronavirus is exploding among America’s 2.5 million farmworkers, imperiling efforts to contain the spread of the disease and keep food on the shelves just as peak harvest gets underway.
Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 20th Century US South
4 July 2020, byMainstream commentators in the US, both liberal and conservative, tend to portray the South as a region whose culture makes it a permanent bastion of reactionary, racist, and anti-labor politics. Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020), challenges these truisms, revealing the possibilities for a racially egalitarian industrial unionism in the South during and after the Great Depression and how the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) squandered those opportunities. Spectre’s Charlie Post interviews Mike Goldfield about his provocative contribution to discussions of race and class in the US.
After the epidemic in China: crises and changes?
3 July 2020, byNearly half a million businesses were declared bankrupt in April. For the first time since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, the economy is shrinking because exports, after having been in demand for the US and European markets, ended up not being able to find customers once the world had been confined.
Statement on upcoming elections in Sri Lanka
2 July 2020, byThis statement was made by the Fourth International Bureau on 30 June 2020.
Reactionary school law passed in Greece, but the fight continues
2 July 2020, byThere was little suspense: the right-wing majority of the Greek parliament voted on Thursday, 11 June for the reactionary law on schools, confirming if it was necessary the dangerous nature of a government whose sole intent is to break up the public services to better offer them to the private sector, preferably to cronies, as evidenced in recent times by a series of scandals of which one alone would have been enough to bring down such a government in other times!