Multinational Healthcare Corporation Tenet furloughs nurses at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, MA during the pandemic.
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International Workers’ Day 2020: Lives on the line as the capitalists order us back to work
International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, was born from the titanic struggle of the working class for the eight-hour workday, and throughout the years it has served as a flash point for workers’ struggles. Many past May Day struggles have been about workplace safety, and have meant life or death for the workers involved. This year, workers globally are organizing against capitalism’s failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Socialism Episode 66: US imperialism in decline: coronavirus, Trump, Sanders and socialism
Socialism is a weekly podcast produced by the Socialist Party of England and Wales, offering a Marxist analysis of the issues we face and the struggles of workers and youth around the world.
Episode 66, the latest episode of the podcast, looks at the ongoing decline of US imperialism, as capitalist chaos and coronavirus struggles envelop our nation. More episodes of Socialism can be found on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, as well as many other podcast services.
COVID-19 Triggers Long Anticipated Economic Crash
As the capitalist economy hurls deeper into recession, the federal government and central banks are producing trillions of dollars that they conveniently couldn’t find for increasing the federal minimum wage or other needed social benefits. The trillions of dollars being released during the COVID-19 crisis are mostly being dumped into the pockets of the rich and corporations in a failed effort to prop up the stock market.
Statement of unification in political solidarity between the Independent Socialist Group (ISG) in the United States and the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)
A series of discussions with members of the International Secretariat (IS) of the CWI and the membership of the Independent Socialist Group (ISG) in the US has resulted in a unanimous vote of the ISG for political solidarity with the CWI.
Sanders Suspends Campaign and Endorses Biden
Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign to be the Democratic Party candidate for President and less than a week later, he formally endorsed Joe Biden as the party nominee in the presidential election this November. This move comes as a huge economic and social crisis unfolds in the U.S. where the failures of capitalism are fully on display in the system’s lack of preparation and chaotic response to the COVID-19 virus.
Trump Stokes Violence Against Asian Americans
Capitalists fight COVID-19 with racist abstractions; we fight it with a diverse multi-racial movement of the working class! Read the socialist response to Trump’s violent “Chinese Virus” rhetoric.
Urgent Need for a US National Health Service!
Private healthcare delivers profits, not care – and it’s killing us. We need universal free healthcare now!
– Free Universal Healthcare for all, funded by taxing big business and slashing the bloated military budget!
– No furloughs, no layoffs, and no benefits cuts for hospital staff during the crisis! For proper PPE, workplace sanitation, sick leave, and hazard pay!
U.S. Capitalism, Not Just Trump, Discredited by Inhumane COVID-19 Response
As the death toll climbs and the Stock Market falls, what is the socialist perspective on the COVID-19 crisis? The capitalists have had their chance to fight this pandemic; we can do better! Read about the looming recession, workers resistance, and the need for a party of the working class in the time of COVID-19.
Global COVID-19 pandemic, capitalist crisis and bitter class polarization in the United States
The devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the unprecedented economic global capitalist crisis which it triggered, has continued to ravage all continents. It could cause the onset of one of the deepest recessions, with elements of depression, in the history of capitalism.
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