Tag: COVID19

  • Canada’s Alt-Right ‘Freedom’ RageThe Lumpen Petty Bourgeoisie Does its Revolting Thing

    Everything happening in the United States comes to Canada, only a little later and a tad more politely. The rage that erupted in a Presidential-endorsed riot in Washington on 6 January 2021 has now exploded to the north. Fueled by a confused swirl of resentment against the array of pandemic protocols that all advanced capitalist…

  • Kansas City Tenants Union: Organizing at the Speed of Trust

    This interview is excerpted from a much longer podcast featuring three members of the Kansas City Tenants Union.  You can find the podcast here. Luke:  describe KC tenants for us. Mak: KC Tenants is an organization led by a multi-generational, multi-racial, anti-racist base of poor and working-class tenants in Kansas City. We organize to ensure…

  • Viral Epidemics

    Viral Epidemics

    https://media.blubrry.com/socialismfrombelowpodcast/kboo.org/sites/default/files/audio/station_content/old_mole_april_26th_host_denise.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:54 — 50.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Skip to the interview segment of the show. As this is written, the Biden Administration is holding great outdoor July 4th events and encouraging everybody to get together to celebrate the liberation, from British oppression back then and…

  • Covid-19 and Capitalism: the science and the social/economic context

    Covid-19 and Capitalism: the science and the social/economic context

    https://media.blubrry.com/socialismfrombelowpodcast/kboo.fm/sites/default/files/audio/station_content/old_mole_4-6-20_final_1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:41 — 33.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLet’s start with the origins of this pandemic. Where did Covid-19 come from? For the past few decades now, there’s been an uptick in these emerging diseases, which are products of capitalism’s disruption of the relationship between humans and earth’s ecosystems. There…

  • Why coronavirus hasn’t stopped Hong Kong’s protest movement

    Why coronavirus hasn’t stopped Hong Kong’s protest movement

    For months, protesters, tear gas and riot police have been a regular sight on the streets of Hong Kong. Demonstrations have, at times, numbered over a million. Now, with government officials considering imposing stricter lockdown measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Hong Kong’s protest movement faces a new challenge. Medical workers on strike in…

  • Fighting COVID-19: Why and How to Suspend Debt Repayment Immediately

    Fighting COVID-19: Why and How to Suspend Debt Repayment Immediately

    There is a simple way to free up financial resources: it consists of immediate suspension of public debt repayment. The savings made can then be directly channelled to priority health needs. There are other measures that are quite easy to take to free up financial resources: establishing a crisis tax on the wealthy and very high incomes, imposing fines on companies responsible for…

  • Murder by Sanctions

    AS THE GLOBAL death toll from the coronavirus stretches deep into the hundreds of thousands — and while Donald Trump continues his daily grandstanding misleadership, political manipulation and piracy of critical medical supplies, false claims of miracle cures (in which he has personal financial interests), sabotaging his own public health experts, absurdities about “reopening the…

  • NYC Teachers Struggle to Educate OnlineBosses and Union Leaders Make It Harder

    NYC Teachers Struggle to Educate Online
    Bosses and Union Leaders Make It Harder

    Citing the Covid-19 pandemic, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio proposes over $221 million in NYC education cuts, including pre-K and school budgets (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) By March 8, it was obvious there was widespread community transmission throughout New York City. Teachers on social media and local elected officials were calling for the schools…

  • The Coronavirus Strikes and their Significance, So Far

    The Coronavirus Strikes and their Significance, So Far

    100 workers walk out of the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island on March 28, 2020 Across the United States we are seeing workers walk off the job in wildcat strikes in response to the employers’ failure either to shut down the workplace or to make it safe. The strikes are too few to call them…

  • COVID-19: The monster is
    finally at the door

    COVID-19 is finally the monster at the door. Researchers are working night and day to characterize the outbreak but they are faced with three huge challenges. First the continuing shortage or unavailability of test kits has vanquished all hope of containment. Moreover it is preventing accurate estimates of key parameters such as reproduction rate, size…