Coronavirus

Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory in South Dakota. Here's how it happened.

Décision de justice aux allures de camouflet pour Amazon rendue en référé, ce mardi 14 avril, au tribunal de Nanterre: la multinationale va devoir s’en tenir à la livraison de « marchandises essentielles », jusqu’à ce qu'elle ait revu l'évaluation des risques pour ses salariés face au Covid.

Coronavirus has emphasized a truth we knew before the pandemic: capitalist food systems are irrational and don’t serve human needs. Socialists have to demand a food system based on social and ecological needs — one that can provide food for all.

It isn’t a secret that China’s debt bubble, Europe’s divisions and America’s irrational political culture pose a...

People in Kashmir have been suffering a militarized lockdown since August, when India put an end to the region’s semiautonomous status. In a pandemic, that lockdown is set to continue, extending the disciplinary powers of India’s armed forces in a region where tensions are already at boiling point.

The blame for Gaza’s plight – now and in the future – lands squarely at Israel’s door.

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads to the Deep South, detained immigrants are becoming increasingly desperate.

Suddenly, we find ourselves in a transformed world. Empty streets, closed shops, unusually clear skies, and climbing death tolls: something unprecedented

Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?

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As COVID-19 rips through American prisons, incarcerated people have braved violent repression to demand a humane response to their suffering. In an interview with Jacobin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Heather Ann Thompson explains the current wave of prisoner protest — and what it could signal about the future of American politics.

One in six New York City police officers is out sick. Those who are still working have refused to perform emergency duties, like assisting overstressed mortuary workers, while continuing to make unnecessary arrests. It’s time to send New York cops home.

Our global, profit-driven, meat-centered food system is making us sick. We need a radical rethink

And will we keep using it when all of this is over?

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The economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic have provoked great uncertainty among state managers regarding the future of capitalism. But the perspective of capitalist reproduction is not the only one available to us.

Historically, epidemics have spread through two forms of movement: trade and war. The timing, however, changed dramatically with the rise of capitalism.

We are now in the grip of one of the worst economic crises in the history of modern capitalism. As the Coronavirus pandemic forces people to stay home and

Debs Bruno and Medway Baker lay out the conditions of the current crisis, the political potentials it opens up, and the need for a socialist program to pave a path forward. As COVID-19 rages through the shell of a global civilization systematically ravaged by five decades of catabolic capitalism, the facad ...

Do not listen to the president.

What all these stories have in common is how unremarkable they are: this is contemporary global interchange at its most prosaic. Travel to and from countless other cities across Asia and Europe for business meetings and tourism follows a very similar pattern. Whereas the SARS outbreak was blamed on the peculiar, outlandish diets of the Cantonese people and then traveled through the elite cosmopolitan links between major Asian cities, the so-called “Wuhan virus” points to the utterly mundane way that countless nodal points around the world, including “second-tier” Chinese cities, are interwoven more tightly than ever across global circuits of commerce, education, and tourism.

The literature of democracy is less settled on this question of isolation than you think.

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Capitalism has always been the crisis.

Summary: What faces us in the post-COVID-19 world as we struggle to uproot capitalism and its malignant racism, sexism, heterosexism, and environmental destruction, both in theory and in practice. Authored by Peter Hudis, with Kevin B. Anderson, Karel Ludenhoff, Lilia D. Monzo, and Jens Johansson as part of the pre-Convention discussion of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization - Editors.

COVID-19 and climate breakdown need to be grasped as interconnected crises that call for common solutions of global justice and…

The world is now in what scientists are calling a no-analogue situation. The dangers are increasing and so is the space for revolutionary human development, calling for a new Earth movement.

How could Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) help us interpret the current crisis? His theory of history offers critical resources to interpret the unprecedented crisis which is shaking the world today, while indicating at the same time that ‘the world after’ so much mentioned could only be anti-capitalist.

How the Failed Coronavirus Stimulus is Leading to the Fastest, Deepest Economic Disaster in Modern History