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Coronavirus and the Racial Regime in Slovakia: Roma and the State Response to the Pandemic

As the coronavirus pandemic has begun to take foot in Slovakia, the country’s largest ethnic minority --- the Roma --- are already starting to feel the effects of increased militarization and police presence in their communities. Without the guarantee of proper social and health services necessary to combat the pandemic, Slovakia will condemn the Roma to die, a fate all too well known by the Roma people.

Jakub Crcha

April 1, 2020

Covid-19 and Domestic Violence

With stay-at-home orders in many states, one critical public health measure will be exacerbated: domestic violence, as victims are confined at home with their abusers and with fewer resources to ensure their safety.

Jimena Vergara

March 29, 2020

The Fascistic Turn in the World’s Largest Democracy: Part II

In recent months, there has been unprecedented acceleration by the right in India. The second article of this two part series examines recent events and the prospects of the left.

Raju J Das

March 25, 2020

The Fascistic Turn in the World’s Largest Democracy: Part I

The rampant growth of right wing forces in India has been caused by the crisis of neoliberalism. The first article of this two part series looks at the conditions that led to the rise of the right.

Raju J Das

March 24, 2020

Governor Cuomo Calls For Medicaid Cuts in Midst of Pandemic

New York governor Andrew Cuomo wants to cut the state’s Medicaid spending by $400 million in the next year. His long-standing dream of neoliberal healthcare “reform” is alive and well, even in the midst of a global pandemic that has brought New York City to the brink of disaster.

Christopher Baum

March 21, 2020

Workers’ Control of Production is the “Emergency Measure” We Need

There’s only one way to ensure that all the different emergency measures being enacted to combat the coronavirus pandemic serve the interests of the working class and not the capitalists, whose primary motivation is to rescue their corrupt, inhumane economic system: workers' control.

Scott Cooper

March 19, 2020

The Working Class Needs Direct Help, Not Capitalist “Stimulus”

Confronted with an impending recession, the U.S. capitalist class and the politicians who serve it are working overtime to protect their profits and wealth and keep their system intact. But none of the “rescue” measures that are coming at us from every quarter are about protecting the interests of the vast majority of workers and other people who face the greatest economic threats from the coronavirus pandemic.

Scott Cooper

March 18, 2020

The Coronavirus Lays Bare Capitalism’s Inhumanity

Crises have a nasty tendency to unmask not only the weaknesses of a system, but also the lies upon which the arguments in favor of a corrupt system are based. That’s what we’re seeing in the coronavirus crisis, as capitalism lurches forward hell-bent on saving its economic “fundamentals.”

Scott Cooper

March 17, 2020

U.S. Capitalism Confronts Coronavirus — For the Wealthy

As the spread of the coronavirus roils the stock market and upends the social and economic lives of working people in the United States, the federal government is stepping in to address the crisis. But in whose interests?

Scott Cooper

March 14, 2020