Healthcare Workers Across the Country Protest for PPE Over Profit

Yesterday, hundreds of healthcare workers took to the streets in protest of the despicable actions of the healthcare industry, demanding PPE over Profit and saying that the whole system is broken. Some called for the nationalization of healthcare under worker control.

Capitalism Is a Virus: Interview with Two Socialist Healthcare Workers from New York

As thousands die each day, bodies are piled into mass graves --- these are the surreal images coming out of the world’s dominant imperialist power. This situation was by no means inevitable, but it was prepared by decades of neoliberal policies, as explained by nurse Tre Kwon and Dr. Mike Pappas from New York, members of Left Voice.

Neither Trump nor Cuomo: Socialist Healthcare Workers Tell Us How to Fight the Pandemic

Capitalism has birthed a nightmare. Nearly two million people around the world have already fallen ill as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals like ours have been completely overwhelmed by the rush of patients. The bodies of the dead are being held in refrigerated trucks. Those who can’t be identified are buried in mass graves. Unemployment may already be as high as 13 percent in the U.S.

We Need to Nationalize Health Care Now!

Our for-profit healthcare system was already broken before the pandemic. Now it has proved to be awfully inadequate to respond to the crisis. The only rational solution is to nationalize all hospitals and health-related industries.

Rank-And-File Healthcare Workers Call for National Day of Action

A national network of rank-and-file activists is organizing a National Day of Action on Tax Day, April 15. We reproduce their list of demands and their call to action.

Nurses’ Hours Are Getting Cut in the Midst of a Pandemic

Despite the critical need for healthcare workers to help manage the COVID-19 across the country, a bedside nurse describes the practices of her non-profit hospital in Washington DC which is cancelling healthcare workers in a scramble to save their own profit.

The Coronavirus Pandemic is Ravaging Black Communities

The data confirms it: although political leaders talk of the coronavirus as the great equalizer, Black people are getting sick and dying of COVID-19 in higher numbers than others.

Harlem Hospital Workers Hold Rally to Demand Immediate Access to PPE

As completely avoidable frontline worker deaths grow, Harlem Hospital workers joined in solidarity with other frontline workers who have staged walk-outs and demonstrations demanding urgent access to PPE to protect themselves, their patients, and their families.

COVID-19 Frontline Workers Blast Trump and Cuomo on National Media for Lack of PPE

Yesterday’s action outside Mount Sinai Hospital - led by rank-and-file frontline workers - brought worldwide media attention to the struggle and demands of nurses and other frontline and essential workers.