coronavirus
Experts question right-wing government’s low COVID-19 death toll claims in India
September 17, 2020When Narayan Mitra died on July 16, a day after being admitted to the hospital for fever and breathing difficulties, his name never appeared on any of the official lists put out daily of those killed...
Read moreData confirms unequal coronavirus impact on households of color
September 17, 2020A health care worker in Baltimore had to be quarantined for two weeks in an empty downtown hotel.
Read moreTrudeau parades as workers’ defender, but Canada’s unemployed face ‘disaster capitalism’
September 15, 2020With a minority government in the midst of a pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a century, the Liberals are vulnerable to pressure from labor and the left.
Read moreUnited Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’
September 14, 2020WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...
Read moreTug-of-war in Germany between forces for peace and militarists
September 14, 2020As in the U.S., the militarists push for war while Germany and Europe can clearly benefit from peace.
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