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.
The pandemic has exposed the economic, political, social and moral bankruptcy of world capitalism, which must be overthrown.
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.
The Biden administration has scrapped even the pretense of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, admitting that preventing infections is “not even a policy goal.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Part two of a two-part interview on the COVID pandemic and the claims that COVID has become endemic.
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.”
“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.
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.
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.
New York City K-12 schools have seen a near-twofold increase in infections recently, with more than 10,000 cases last week.
Throughout the pandemic, the Health and Safety Executive has enforced not public health procedures, but the government’s anti-scientific herd immunity strategy.
The CEO of a scientific modeling company speaks to the WSWS about the firm's COVID-19 research.