U.S. Automakers Shut Down After Wildcat Strikes

On Wednesday, the Big Three automakers announced they are closing all plants in the U.S. Managers presented this as a voluntary decision. In reality, it was a reaction to spontaneous strikes by auto workers. Auto workers around the world have been going on strike to protect their health and safety.

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.

Nationalize All Healthcare Now!

Social distancing — popularized under the slogan Cancel Everything — is essential to slowing the spread of the coronavirus. But to solve the problem, we need to take private healthcare under public control, immediately. We must Nationalize Everything.

Why is the U.S. Bombing Iraq During a Pandemic?

Even as coronavirus spreads rapidly across the globe, causing a health crisis of historic proportions, the U.S. military is engaging in new military attacks in the Middle East. The U.S. must cease all military interventions and redirect its military budget to combat the pandemic.

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.”

A 10-point Emergency Program to Tackle the Coronavirus Epidemic in the U.S.

We propose ten immediate measures to tackle the health emergency, address the immediate needs of working-class families, and provide, in the face of an inevitable economic fallout, basic income security and living conditions to the vast majority of the population.

Will Coronavirus Unleash the Next Great Recession?

Most mainstream journalism tends to assume or report on the capitalist economy’s problems — and its politics — as emanating from “outside.” Be it the triumph of Brexit, Trump’s election, the U.S.-China “trade war,” the coronavirus pandemic, or the current stock market cataclysm, everything seems to emerge as if “lightning in a calm sky” or, […]

On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View

The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe. There seems to be no way of containing it at this point, and health systems are struggling to keep up. The virus is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health.

“Neoliberalism Has Led to a Public Health Emergency” — Interview with an Italian Socialist

Left Voice spoke with Giacomo Turci, a member of the Revolutionary Internationalist Fraction (FIR), about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, the reasons why the healthcare system is overwhelmed, and the urgent measures needed to confront this crisis.