Coronavirus

Coronavirus reveals the divide between the socialist principal of using healthcare to meet human needs and the capitalist practice of treating healthcare as a commodity.

Governor Kristi Noem’s threat to sue two South Dakota tribes shows the callousness of her coronavirus plan, which seems to encourage exposure and prioritize the economy over the lives of at-risk Natives.

Walter Scheidel explains how the fallout from coronavirus could be the catalyst for a more equal world

Only collective action can save us from the pandemic

In films such as Contagion, virology is often confused with the invisible workings of capital.

Mike Davis explores the global political economy of Covid-19 — and how progressive forces can unite to reclaim the world in its aftermath.

Gavin Walker argues that from the outset of the emergence of the pandemic the realm of social and cultural criticism has been suffused with responses, from epic pronouncements to social-media “thinkpieces”, producing a new discursive function of coronavirus almost as central as the actual medical phenomenon itself.

By Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica , May 7, 2020 A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming tem...

The crisis has highlighted the need for transnational co-operation to make socially useful goods—an idea UK aerospace workers hatched long ago.

Imagine if we had a national health care system or universal basic income.

Tech giants offer a new dystopia in the wake of the pandemic. Socialism presents a hopeful alternative. Which post-capitalist world will emerge?

Enzo Traverso on 'the Revolt of Nature' and how COVID-19 forces us to reconsider the blurred relationship between politics, economics, society and biology.

COVID-19 can set the terms for social transformation.

Adam Hanieh on the COVID-19 pandemic

While the labor of undocumented people is gladly accepted, their humanity has been tidily erased by lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

May Day strikes are capping off a global wave of labor action through which logistic workers have asserted themselves against capital in the face of a pandemic.

Download this article as a PDF here The coronavirus pandemic has given human society a jolt, sent the world economy into depression – and is producing what looks like the sharpest-ever cut in the l…

MÉRIDA, Venezuela (venezuelanalysis.com)—The Venezuelan government announced a series of measures on Sunday in attempts to protect the population from the economic effects of the coronavirus crisis.

Please join us for an online teach-in on the state of the global economy with activist economists David McNally and Hadas Thier Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 5:...

PDFHowever much upheaval the global COVID-19 pandemic has generated, a great deal more is coming. The economic disaster is already the object of frantic analysis, much of which tells us we can expect a bottom that matches or exceeds the Great Depression of the 1930s, at least as measured by conventional economic indicators like GDP, unemployment, and bankruptcies. This narrative... Read more →

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Their desire to get "back to normal" is a public health disaster.

In recent weeks, more than a dozen countries – including two in Europe – have requested and received Cuban doctors to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic.

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