May Day 2022: The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism
The pandemic has exposed the economic, political, social and moral bankruptcy of world capitalism, which must be overthrown.
Evan Blake•
The fight to end the coronavirus pandemic
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The White House Correspondents’ Association super-spreader event
The WHCA dinner was a live-streamed propaganda event designed to falsely portray the pandemic as over, which has totally backfired and turned into a disaster.
Evan Blake•
Half of all Americans infected with COVID-19, three-quarters of children
The Biden administration has scrapped even the pretense of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, admitting that preventing infections is “not even a policy goal.”
Patrick Martin•
Ending masks on transit, White House demands permanent mass infection
The Biden administration is working to remove all obstacles to the permanent mass infection and reinfection of the population, making every flight or bus ride to work a game of Russian roulette.
Andre Damon•
Evan Blake•
Andre Damon•
Evan Blake, Benjamin Mateus•
Evan Blake•
Evan Blake•
The Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
This Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, falsifications and misinformation that have been deployed to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions since the initial detection of SARS-CoV-2.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board•
Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
UK nurse testifies about life on a COVID ward: “There was a general feeling that we were expendable”
The following testimony to the Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic has been submitted by a Senior Health Care Assistant in a busy hospital in the north of England. The nurse normally works on a gerontology ward caring for the old and infirm and those suffering from dementia.
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“This is a mass disabling event that’s taking place”: Canadian mother speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest on her struggle to protect her children from COVID-19
Jessica Bleasdale spoke to the WSWS about her experiences advocating for her son and others who are vulnerable, as well as her thoughts on the New Brunswick government’s decision to drop all protective measures.
Dylan Lubao•
“The Gamma variant was maliciously created in Manaus by Bolsonaro’s herd immunity policy”
Brazilian researcher Lucas Ferrante testifies on the role of schools in spreading COVID-19
The studies led by Ferrante showed that the reopening of schools in Manaus in late 2020 led to the emergence of the Gamma variant, responsible for two-thirds of the COVID-19 deaths in Brazil.
Guilherme Ferreira•
Emma Arceneaux•
Evan Blake•
Zac Thorton•
Evan Blake•
Richard Phillips, Max Boddy•
October 24 webinar: How to end the pandemic
On October 24, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees featuring leading scientists and epidemiologists from throughout the world to explain the case for the global elimination of the virus that causes COVID-19.
What Scientists Say
The criminal role of the Swedish government in the pandemic: Testimony from anti-COVID activist Keith Begg
This is the first of a two-part interview on the experience of the pandemic in Sweden, the birthplace of the homicidal “herd immunity” strategy which the Social Democratic government has ruthlessly pursued since March 2020.
Gabriel Black•
"Every infected person is a chance for a new variant to arise"
Boston University epidemiologist Dr. Eleanor Murray speaks on COVID-19 and endemicity
Part two of a two-part interview on the COVID pandemic and the claims that COVID has become endemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
Bolsonaro’s “herd immunity” led to Manaus health care collapse, mass infection of indigenous populations, says Brazilian scientist Lucas Ferrante
Bolsonaro’s strategy “did not lead to herd immunity, but to the emergence of a new variant, Gamma, which today is responsible for two thirds of the deaths in Brazil.”
Our reporters•
Scientists and health experts call on Johnson government to help vaccinate world, as it ends all UK COVID restrictions
“Vaccinating the vast majority of the world’s population” as called for by the scientists and health experts in the open letter, is a pipe dream under capitalism.
Robert Stevens•
Richard Phillips•
Eduardo Parati, Tomas Castanheira•
Richard Phillips, Max Boddy•
Richard Phillips, Max Boddy•
Mike Head•
The positions of the ruling class proceed from the defense of capitalist property: the private ownership of the means of production and the geostrategic interests of the nation state. The positions of the working class strive objectively toward socialism: the ending of the profit system and exploitation of labor, and its replacement with the scientifically planned reorganization of economic life on the basis of human needs and the global unification of mankind through the abolition of the nation-state system.
US/NATO-provoked war in Ukraine creates food crisis in Africa
The United Nations has warned that the war risks tipping 1.7 billion people, one-fifth of the world’s population, into poverty, destitution and hunger—a horrifying scenario the imperialist powers are utilising to step up their warmongering in the Black Sea.
Jean Shaoul•
Latest COVID wave exacerbates dire conditions in New York City K-12 schools
New York City K-12 schools have seen a near-twofold increase in infections recently, with more than 10,000 cases last week.
Jesse Thomas•
Death of UK teacher Donna Coleman blamed on “community transmission” despite Burnley College breaching COVID rules
Throughout the pandemic, the Health and Safety Executive has enforced not public health procedures, but the government’s anti-scientific herd immunity strategy.
Tania Kent•
The failed COVID-19 pandemic policies: An interview with Arijit Chakravarty of Fractal Therapeutics
The CEO of a scientific modeling company speaks to the WSWS about the firm's COVID-19 research.
Benjamin Mateus•
David Fitzgerald•
Benjamin Mateus•
Robert Stevens•
Benjamin Mateus, Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•