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Black youth stage Emancipation Day protest for D.C. inmates amid COVID-19 crisis

April 20, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Emancipation Day protests have a new meaning in the age of COVID-19.

Trump’s anti-Chinese racist campaign strategy mobilizes right-wing extremists

April 20, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Because capitalism cannot operate without the labor-power of workers, the profits of the capitalist class are in danger. Therefore, the message is: Back to work.

Appelbaum: Poultry plant workers ‘are not expendable’ in coronavirus pandemic

April 20, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The nation’s big poultry producers “are getting it wrong” with slow and tardy responses to worker demands for protection from the spreading coronavirus pandemic.

Vigilance of all German anti-fascists required as coronavirus recedes

April 20, 2020 By Victor Grossman

With the daily number of new COVID-19 figures slowly receding, Germany is limping back to some kind of “normalcy.”

S.D. Gov. Noem has blood on her hands after Smithfield outbreak

April 17, 2020 By John Wojcik

Refusing to issue a stay-at-home order after 700 infections at a Smithfield meat plant spread like wildfire into Sioux Falls, she says the people “just have to tough this out.”