Left responses to COVID-19
How Venezuela has held back COVID-19 in spite of the US sanctions stranglehold on its economy
María Lourdes Urbaneja Durant tells Vijay Prashad that despite sabotage by the US, Venezuela has been able to curb the spread of COVID-19 through “participation of the people”
Pandemic and socialism
As COVID-19 grips the world, in country after country, there is socialization of healthcare and of production of some essential goods, which markedly departs from the capitalist norm
- Colombians mobilize in support of pension reform and against “institutional” coup that would seek to remove Gustavo Petro
- Waffle House workers fight back against wage theft
- Palestine solidarity activist arrested for wearing keffiyeh in Long Island
- Protests intensify in India following arrest of anti-femicide organizer
- UAW could return to the picket line in battle against auto giant Stellantis
