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Following Mexico’s Worker Strikes, the US Steps in to Keep Border Factories Open
| May 18, 2020
In Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump is trying his best to reopen closed meatpacking plants, as packinghouse workers catch the COVID-19 virus and die. In Tijuana, Mexico, where workers are … Keep reading »
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Will the Pandemic Set Women Back?
| May 17, 2020
By sapping demand for garments and other goods produced in export-oriented developing and emerging economies, the COVID-19 pandemic poses an acute threat to women workers and progress toward greater gender … Keep reading »
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COVID-19 and ‘Actually Existing’ Unions
| May 17, 2020
The shut-down of non-essential work in response to COVID-19 has decimated labour markets. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 20.5 million more workers lost their jobs in April, … Keep reading »
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The Deadly Consequences of Neoliberalism: The Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany
| May 16, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic is relentlessly uncovering the weaknesses of the German healthcare system and the deadly consequences of neoliberal policies. Keep reading »
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The Coming Precarity: Employment in Canada after the Crisis
| May 15, 2020
The immediate impact of Covid-19 on the national employment landscape has been nothing short of catastrophic, with Canada suffering unprecedented job losses over the early months of the crisis. More … Keep reading »
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Why Capitalism Can’t Cure Global Pandemics
| May 14, 2020
Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. Keep reading »
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Beyond the Plague State
| May 14, 2020
It is commonplace when commenting on crises of various stripes to note their capacity suddenly to reveal what the seemingly smooth reproduction of the status quo leaves unremarked, to frontstage … Keep reading »
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COVID-19, Capitalism, and Socialism
| May 13, 2020
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. Keep reading »
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Workers’ Power + Renewable Electrification of the Whole Economy
| May 13, 2020
A Red-Green New Deal in Transport The transport sector represents one of the most serious challenges when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, which are increasing faster than from any … Keep reading »
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Covid-19 Unmasks Dangers of Commodified Healthcare
| May 12, 2020
The pandemic has shown the need for medical care and interventions that have nothing to do with profit. But not even SA’s proposed National Health Insurance would fit the bill. Keep reading »
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A Dirty Military Incursion into Venezuela
| May 11, 2020
In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to cross the maritime border. They landed … Keep reading »
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Palestine and the COVID Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is confronting governments around the world with an emergency health situation, requiring self-isolation, population lockdowns of many economic activities and households, mass virus testing, screening and hospitalizations, … Keep reading »
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