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In the United States we are facing a number of interrelated crises: the coronavirus, the economy, institutional racism including police violence against African Americans, disarray in the federal government, and climate change.
The new upsurge in virus infections is increasing. Spikes in new (...)
Shops around the US make headlines for denying entry to those wearing masks as protesters argue against preventative measures in the name of freedom.
In the last few weeks a spate of American stores have made headlines after putting up signs telling customers who wear masks they will be denied (...)
The Labor Department released figures for the unemployment rate for April. They said that the rate was 14.7 percent, the highest rate since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Labor Department said that because of how it classifies workers, the real figure could be 20 percent.
These figures (...)
The United States has during the shutdown of the last two months suffered 90,000 deaths while 36 million workers have filed for unemployment, nearly 25 percent of the workforce. President Donald Trump now wants to restart the economy because he fears losing the November election if this Second (...)
President Donald Trump is driving the United States toward complete loss of control of the coronavirus pandemic, a development that will lead to tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths and further devastation of the economy. Today the United States has 1.3 million known cases and 78,763 (...)
May Day saw significant actions by workers in essential companies serving the general public during the shutdown, who held a mass strike to demand better health and safety conditions, and hazard pay.
These companies included Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and Fed Ex, who (...)
President Donald Trump has now announced a three-phase plan for reopening the country, though many medical experts have expressed doubts and 81 percent of Americans believe we should not reopen until it is safe to do so. Putting profits ahead of people, Trump puts the entire country at risk. (...)
Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression.
Donald Trump’s botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like a “third world” country and on course for a second Great Depression, one of the world’s leading economists has warned.
In a (...)
As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell.
As unemployment (officially reported) soars toward 30 percent or more, an estimated 20 million more people will fall helplessly below the poverty line. In a recent (...)
There has been an important impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 election campaigns of the two capitalist parities.
On the Democratic side, Sanders was forced to stop campaigning. His main vehicle was large mass rallies, which couldn’t be held. He had hoped to win some more delegates to (...)
This has been a rather impressive week even for Donald Trump. Whenever you think that he has reached the nadir of his Presidency, he always manages to continue the downward trend; it is like a sink-hole that appears in the middle of an area that simply sucks everything in its path downwards. (...)
Two realities confront the United States — now the world leader in confirmed Covid-19 cases, even while emerging conditions are incomparably more horrific in much of the Global South — during the coronavirus pandemic and associated economic meltdown. First, this is a crisis that would seriously (...)
The official U.S. death toll in the United States as of April 14 is over 25,000. It was 12,000 seven days before. The real toll is much higher, as I reported last week, as many deaths from the virus among the homeless, those too poor to have health insurance, undocumented immigrants, those who (...)
This article was written for L’Anticapitaliste, the weekly newspaper of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) of France.
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COVID-19 is now in all U.S. states with 530,026 cases and 20,614 deaths (as of April 12). Statistics suggest that (...)
Bandanas, scarves, and trash bags: that’s the kind of armor many nurses around the world are using right now to fight COVID-19. But governments, employers, and even the World Health Organization (WHO) don’t seem to care. Their guidelines claim nurses and health care workers don’t need the highest (...)
Chomsky slams US’s handling of virus as he warns nuclear war, global warming threats will remain after pandemic is over.
Speaking from his office in self-isolation to Croatian philosopher and author Srecko Horvat , the celebrated 91-year-old US linguist offered a stark perspective on how the (...)
Strikes, work stoppages, and protests this week at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, and other workplaces may not have done much to shut down the nation’s stores and warehouses, but they sent America a very loud and potent message none the less.
The thousands of men and women who pick and pack at (...)
Today, March 31, is one week after my article on the impact of the corona virus pandemic in the United States. At that time, there were about 650 deaths due to the virus. That number has risen to over 3,700, doubling about every three days.
Much has happened in this past seven days. The Labor (...)
Covid-19 has already begun to take its toll on the overextended USPS workforce.
Last Thursday, Charles Martin showed up at the post office in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he works as a letter carrier. When he arrived, he learned that a clerk in the station had been quarantined after she displayed (...)
We have been forced to choose between two terrible options :
1. Lock ourselves down to prevent the spread of the virus, resulting in massive job loss—while many vulnerable workers are still forced to work in unsafe conditions, or 2. Maintain some business as usual, stemming the economic impact (...)
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