Despite Biden’s lies, the COVID emergency continues
The Biden administration’s plan to end COVID-19 emergency declarations is wholly unscientific and will have vast consequences for the American and international working class.
Evan Blake•
The struggle of health care workers
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The growing global movement of nurses and health care workers
The response to the pandemic by capitalist governments, which prioritized profits over human lives, revealed and accelerated the breakdown of health care systems, which have been plagued by cost-cutting and understaffing for decades.
Jerry White•
Mass mobilization of nurses keeps RaDonda Vaught out of jail, but the battle must continue!
Nurses throughout the country should be proud of their display of solidarity behind RaDonda Vaught. Thanks to their intervention, Vaught is not behind bars. However, this is only the beginning.
WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter•
The billionaires at Davos protect themselves from COVID-19, while declaring the pandemic “over” for working people
The first in-person gathering of world leaders and billionaires at Davos during the COVID-19 pandemic was remarkable for the comprehensive infection control measures taken to protect the super-rich from the virus.
Benjamin Mateus•
What must be done to end the pandemic
This video describes the current surge of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, reviews the immense societal impacts of Long COVID and outlines a strategy of what must be done to end the pandemic. It has subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish and Italian.
Build rank-and-file committees throughout the healthcare industry!
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Australian health union’s “Big Wednesday,” a farce aimed at blocking a real struggle by workers
This was not a strike, but a stunt designed to create the illusion that the union will lead a fight for decent wages and conditions.
Martin Scott•
Sri Lankan government approves paying wards in state hospitals
The introduction of paying wards, to convert the free public health system to a paid service, is occurring amid a deliberate rundown of the public health system and its network of government hospitals.
Tisara Senanayake, Kamal Mahagama•
Australian health union’s “Big Wednesday” campaign is a sham! Form rank-and-file committees to fight for wage increases and decent conditions!
The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee supports all actions taken by workers in the sector. But the token stop-work meetings and work bans called by the HSU bureaucracy will do nothing to resolve the crisis in health.
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Australia)•
Ochsner Health lays off nearly 800 in Louisiana and Mississippi
In a mass email sent May 11, Ochsner Health CEO Peter November announced the layoff of 770 employees, approximately 2 percent of Ochsner’s workforce.
Cordell Gascoigne•
Robert Milkowski•
Harvey Thompson•
Erik Schreiber•
Michael Anders•
Robert Milkowski•
Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Family of Detroit autoworker who died of COVID-19 demands answers
In this video testimony, Catherine Pace’s family describes the working conditions which led to her death and the deaths of countless other autoworkers during the still-raging pandemic.
Jerry White, James Brewer•
“The worst is the fatigue, it feels like I have 500 pounds strapped to me”
Retired workers suffering from Long COVID in Flint, Michigan, speak to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ed, a retired auto worker, and Tammy, a retired care worker, have been “living with” COVID-19 for two years, and they’ve had enough.
Tim Rivers, Evan Blake•
"It's going to keep killing us, the ones who forcibly have to work."
Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Tim Rivers, Zac Corrigan•
“This is a warfare of the upper classes against the lower classes”
Health care expert Gregory Travis speaks on the impacts of COVID-19 on children, misinformation and the cover-up of data
Travis exposes the lies and misinformation spread about COVID-19, in particular its impacts on children, and documents the steady erosion of data tracking over the past year and during the Omicron surge.
Evan Blake•
Zac Corrigan•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Richard Phillips, Cheryl Crisp•
Richard Phillips•
Evan Blake•
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