Coronavirus

Life Expectancy and Human Development in the 21st Century
If we accept that life expectancy is a good measure of human development, the latest data are revealing about capitalist societies in the 21st century. Life expectancy fell in the US in 2021 to its lowest since 1996, the second year of a historic retreat, mainly due to COVID-19 deaths.
Michael Roberts
September 13, 2022One Million U.S. Covid Deaths and Counting: A Grim Milestone
The official death toll in the U.S. for COVID-19 has surpassed one million. The capitalists and U.S. politicians have blood on their hands.
Emma Lee
June 17, 2022Rapidly Changing Mask Mandates Reveal Capitalism’s Hypocrisy
The U.S. is about to hit one million coronavirus deaths, but multiple states have just announced that they are lifting mask mandates, prioritizing (yet again) “going back to normal” over workers deciding how to return safely, using recommendations based on scientific research.
K.S. Mehta
February 11, 2022Blood on Their Hands: U.S. Regime Responsible for More than 900,000 Covid Deaths and Counting
Over 900,000 people in the U.S. have died of Covid-19. This is a damning indictment of a capitalist system that has put profits over human lives.
Sou Mi
February 7, 2022Indigenous Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Has Covid and Is Being Denied Treatment
Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier has Covid-19. Decades of imprisonment in torturous conditions and multiple health issues place him in great danger. He must be treated and freed immediately.
Sam Carliner
February 4, 2022A Working-Class Program for Safe School Reopenings
Schools have been at the center of the capitalist strategy to reopen the economy for nearly two years. But the decision to reopen schools shouldn’t be up to the capitalists — it should be decided by the people who live and work within their communities. Here we present a working-class program for safe school reopenings.
Carmin Maffea
January 28, 2022What Student Activists Walking Out Over Covid Safety Can Learn From Student Movements Around the World
There is a long international history of student strikes. The recent student movements in Chile, Brazil, and elsewhere can offer ideas and inspiration to the thousands of K-12 students organizing school walkouts to demand remote learning and other safety protocols during the current Covid wave.
Rose Lemlich
January 22, 2022Capitalists Only “Trust the Science” When It Suits Their Agenda
Trusting science should not mean trusting in the benevolence of the ruling class.
Olivia Wood
January 21, 2022CUNY Rank-and-File Activists Fight for Safe Reopening
At the City University of New York (CUNY) tens of thousands of students are petitioning for more online classes, and in-person sections are getting canceled left and right due to low enrollment, leading dozens of part-time faculty to lose their jobs. Dissatisfied with the union leadership’s response, rank-and-file union members are taking matters into their own hands.
Left Voice
January 21, 2022Mine Workers in Peru Protest Over Covid-19 Infections
Faced with the inaction of the Ministry of Labor, mine workers in Peru staged a massive protest on Tuesday demanding that Anglo American mining company cover quarantine expenses for those infected with Covid-19 caused in the mining camps.
La Izquierda Diario Perú
January 19, 2022