Coronavirus

Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from Elisa Gabbert in Denver, Ian Jack in London, Vanessa Barbara in São Paolo, Rachel Pearson in San Antonio, A.E. Stallings in Athens, Simon Callow in London, Mark Gevisser in Cape Town, Sarah Manguso in Los Angeles, Ruth Margalit in Tel Aviv, Miguel-Anxo Murado in Madrid, Tim Parks in Milan, Eduardo Halfon in Paris, Anastasia Edel in Oakland, and more.

What we can learn from the Spanish flu.

In the face of inadequate health and safety protections against coronavirus on public transit, Detroit bus drivers walked off the job Tuesday demanding management take action. They won.

There’s very little clarity about the current pandemic—how long it will last, when a vaccine could arrive—but medical experts all seem to agree that one of the few things we can do to significantly stop the spread of covid-19 is washing our hands frequently. I’ve been washing mine so much that my knuckles are starting to peel.

We are facing two crises at once, health and economic, that are related in very important ways. The covid-19 epidemic has done major damage around the world, but it’s highlighting some serious stru…

“Every time each of us stops, or even just delays, an infection is a small victory.”

Amid the mounting COVID-19 pandemic, capitalist governments around the world have clearly prioritised corporate welfare over public health. But Cuba has set an example of international solidarity in

A public health crisis The coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health problem and the human suffering caused by the spread of this virus (...)

Just after his Inauguration, I wrote a piece that asked — and not facetiously— whether Trump was “a genius.” Not, as I said, in a Yo-Yo Ma…

David Harvey's reflections on the likely economic and political impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

La región es una de las que menos invierte en la salud pública. ¿Cómo podrán los países latinoamericanos hacerle frente al coronavirus?

Intellectuals, social movements and parliamentarians from all over Brazil file a request for impeachment of the president.

In This Issue Organizing in Unprecedented Times An Evolving Crisis Government (In)Action Workers Strike Back Bernie 2020 and the Fight for Democracy DSA Announcements: Mass Call Tonight, Organize a COVID-19 Workplace Response, Sign our COVID-19 Petition Organizing in Unprecedented Times This is the first DSA COVID-19 Bulletin, a publication designed to keep DSA members and…

By Kamran Nayeri, March 19, 2020 The subway station in Wuhan. Population density is a known factor in the emergence and spread of infect...

Congressional Dems are to the right of the GOP

"It's extremely unsettling," said one 777X employee who has been at Boeing more than a decade. "This is the most panicked I've ever seen the Machinist membership. None of us can get our minds off it.

Coronavirus on Medium: The latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic, including: coronavirus symptoms, the latest on COVID-19 tests, how to protect yourself from the virus, and updates on a coronavirus vaccine.

In the face of the mounting coronavirus crisis, we need to start asking a crucial question: who pays for the lockdown? The last three weeks have taught

COVID-19 may be just the beginning of mass pandemics

As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics

The situation is overwhelming for many and perhaps most working people. The United States has no national health care system and tens of millions of American workers have no health insurance. In addition, millions of American workers have no paid sick days, no family leave, and millions in precarious employment have no vacation days. Workers have no guarantee of employment or income. All of this is complicated by the closing of schools, after-school programs, and daycare centers.

Spain has put all private hospitals under government control indefinitely as the number of coronavirus cases surge in the country.

The climate case for making the government the employer of last resort

Factories were shuttered and streets were cleared across China's Hubei province as authorities ordered residents to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It seems the lockdown had an unintended benefit -- blue skies.

Forest loss drives viruses as well as climate change—and Indigenous peoples are on the frontlines of the destruction.

Paul Mason joins me to discuss the COVID-19 crisis, the UK government's response, the failure of senior journalists to hold the govt. to account and why the crisis may lead to a profound transformation of the global economy. We also discussed an article he published today -Day One of the UK's suppression strategy: https://paulmason.substack.com/p/day-one-of-uks-suppression-strategy?fbclid=IwAR2IZCzgpr9-gw23yDNugVaJd6tN2E2xJ_B06S_ossyCrlHCwe4SZFSBRrUc

The US and UK responses to coronavirus have failed miserably. But Denmark has moved swiftly to help workers by protecting wages and preventing layoffs — showing yet again, in the midst of a pandemic, that we’d all be better off living in a social democracy.