Coronavirus

History tells us that even in times of little work, there are ways to fight back against exploitation

The rent strike is aimed at pressuring politicians to respond in the only way appropriate to the exacerbated housing crisis: by canceling rent.

A delivery driver at the epicenter of the pandemic in Manhattan describes the stark class relations between the vulnerable and the protected.

The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.

The crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity for us to think again about Marx’s idea of human freedom. As David Harvey writes in Jacobin, emergency steps to get through the crisis also show us how we could build a different society that’s not beholden to capital.

The COVID-19 pandemic will transform our world. Massive state intervention is essential to head off an unprecedented slump. We must come out of this crisis with a better society.

In 2009, there were suspicions that a Smithfield plant in Perote, Mexico might have triggered the Swine Flu epidemic. It was small potatoes compared to COVID-19. Only 1000 people were infected, with 68 deaths. The Mexico City newspaper La Jornada quoted health officials who concluded that the original carrier was in the “clouds of flies” that thrived in Smithfield’s manure lagoons. More

The DSA COVID-19 Bulletin from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is designed to keep working-class people informed about the evolving COVID-19 crisis and its political implications. If you’d like to get the DSA COVID-19 Bulletin by email, sign up here, and share this link with your friends and comrades! Anyone can sign up. New…

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The bourgeoisie is being warned: “The most misleading cliché about the coronavirus is that it treats us all the same. It doesn’t, neither medically nor economically, socially or psychologically. In particular, Covid-19 exacerbates preexisting conditions of inequality wherever it arrives. Before long, this will cause social turmoil, up to and including uprisings and revolutions.”

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Whether Americans know it or not, their government is not working for them. Their government is working on behalf of capital. Humans are now a mere second-order, instrumental factor to be considered

The convergence of the climate and coronavirus crisis will be catastrophic. Now is the time to deploy a green stimulus

by Tristan Call This post continues a series of dispatches from Kopkind participants, advisers, guests and friends on life in coronavirus time as they observe it. The series is a collaboration betw…

Dennis Broe traces the links between class and the coronavirus, and parallels in cultural works. Plus ca change........ In many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the C...

Beirut, April 3, 2020 Dearest M, I was so happy to receive your email, and so happy to know you are healthy and managing, despite everything. That most unimaginative of all email openers: “I hope t…

In Immokalee, Florida, immigrant farmworkers are living and working in crowded conditions without sick leave, space to quarantine, or a nearby hospital. They’re afraid of an outbreak, and they’re making demands on the state to prevent one.

Following over a month with large parts of the United States shutdown, the coronavirus hospitalization rate peaked last week, and the principal debate now is over when and how to restart the economy.Read more ›

COVID-19 and other pathogens can be traced to farming and wild animals. To prevent the next pandemic we need to change our food systems.

Democratic governors can’t rely on the president to protect citizens and Republican governors must act as lackeys of a monarch

The State has managed the crisis by building on legacies of egalitarianism, social rights and public trust

It’s happening in China — but it’s not inevitable here.

An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress

Big businesses and governments are fast making themselves inviolable. There could be a backlash

One in three jobs held by women has been designated as essential.

As tech firms team up with governments to fight the coronavirus pandemic, we’re being asked to accept a trade-off between our digital privacy and our health. It’s a false choice: we can achieve the public health benefits of data without accepting abusive and illicit surveillance.