Coronavirus

The only certainty is that rich countries and rich classes will focus on saving themselves to the exclusion of international solidarity and medical aid.

The president of the Association of Flight Attendants tells Sarah Jaffe that the pandemic reveals what unions already know: “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief about building an autonomous response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical solidarity have formed in as many spaces as the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread. From continent to continent, people have innovated and navigated through information suppression, governmental inadequacy and unpreparedness as well as... Read Full Article

Governments around the world are busily exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks.

Update 1:45 p.m. EST March 17: The International UAW's Facebook page is filled with hundreds of comments from angry workers following the announcement of its joint committee with the Big Three. Under

New Politics lists on this page a number of what we consider to be important social and political analyses as well as political statements concerning COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic. Those who seek guidance for dealing with the health issues should see the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website and get in contact with their local government’s public health department or office of emergency management.

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When looking back at pandemics in modern history, the 1918 Spanish influenza stands out. It took the lives of somewhere between 50 and 100 million people — and while it devastated the countr…

Across the globe, workers are taking action in the face of the coronavirus, pressuring employers to boost paid sick leave, suspend punitive attendance policies, and apply safety measures. While some

The Covid-19 pandemic which is wreaking such havoc is first and foremost an environmental disease. Or, more exactly, it is caused by how our society – capitalist society – interacts with the natura…

In last night’s debate, Joe Biden claimed that Italy shows public health care doesn’t help the response to coronavirus. But the Italian health service is providing a vital defense against mass infection — ensuring that any ill person can get proper treatment, regardless of their ability to pay.

Most mainstream journalism tends to assume or report on the capitalist economy’s problems — and its politics — as emanating from “outside.” Be it the triumph of Brexit, Trump’s election, the U.S.-China “trade war,” the coronavirus pandemic, or the current stock market cataclysm, everything seems to emerge as if “lightning in a calm sky” or, in its most modern version, as a “black swan.”1 It is clear that there are contingent factors — not to mention multiple conspiracy theories — capable of catalyzing storms, which in this case must be understood as the particularly weak conditions of the post-Lehman economic […]

The U.S.’s social compact at the end of this crisis will look dramatically different from how it looked going in.

Thanks to budget cuts, public health departments nationwide have eliminated 50,000 positions since 2008.

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The KCTU and HKCTU released a joint statement and put forward a ten-point demand to both the South Korean and Hong Kong governments for stronger safeguards in workers' rights under the COVID-19 pandemic.

Confronting the coronavirus virus is “like a war,” former Vice President Joe Biden declared on Sunday, echoing previous statements by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Mayor de Blasio, and others. With the CDC projecting a COVID-19 death toll that could surpass that of some U.S. wars, now is a time to learn from the homefront experience of past conflicts.

The UK government yesterday announced stronger “social distancing” measures to combat coronavirus – but its overall strategy is still unclear to medical specialists. They have called for more trans…

We are living in difficult times, but we are also organizing so as not to surrender and prepare our next attack. Reflections, scenarios and claims in the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak

Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” is this week’s guest.

Helen Yaffe— COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019, and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The …

Many businesses, local governments, and individuals are doing what is necessary to beat back the coronavirus—with little help from the White House.

Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself.

One of the few remaining survivors, Paul Alexander spends almost every moment of the day inside his iron lung. In 1952, when I was very young, fear gripped my little village in the Catskills and ac…

As the coronavirus spreads, the public interest requires employers to abandon their longstanding resistance to paid sick leave.

Humanitarian aid was supposed to be exempt from sanctions, but that hasn’t been the case.

We are in the grip of a social panic where people are channeling their fears into racist and anti-immigrant attacks.

Go back to Tolstoy, forget the dystopias you got secondhand from crappy TV, say your prayers, buy a block of pink salt shaped like a bar of soap and cleanse your energy with it. It burns. Buy limes and lemons and learn the proportions for sours.