Tag: Healthcare
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Don’t Blame the Virus for Capitalism’s Latest Crisis!
Is corona-virus driving Canada into recession? Some people want us to think so. As early as March 27, CBC News referred to “the recession caused by COVID-19.” The Toronto Star … Keep reading »
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Choosing Between Life and Capital in Latin America
As in most parts of the world, Latin America is struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic with confirmed cases and deaths still escalating. In some countries, notably Brazil and Ecuador, … Keep reading »
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Following Mexico’s Worker Strikes, the US Steps in to Keep Border Factories Open
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?
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
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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Why Capitalism Can’t Cure Global Pandemics
Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. Keep reading »
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Beyond the Plague State
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
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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Covid-19 Unmasks Dangers of Commodified Healthcare
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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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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Struggles in the Shadow of the Pandemic
It is a principle of historical materialism that social consciousness reflects social being and it is, therefore, inevitable that the former will tend to lag behind the latter. At a … Keep reading »
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The Pandemic Kills the Poor: Inequality Will Kill Them Even More
In just over four months, COVID-19 has become the fastest-growing known global health crisis to date. Various systemic biological, political and public health factors have converged to make this happen: … Keep reading »