coronavirus

Italian workers to strike after bosses put profits over health with coronavirus loopholes

March 25, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

Communist Refoundation Party national secretary Maurizio Acerbo accused the government of “stabbing workers in the back.”

Nurses launch campaign against CDC’s OK of bandannas and scarves

March 25, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Scarves and bandannas won’t do, National Nurses United says.

New York the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for U.S.

March 25, 2020 By John Wojcik

Increasing spread of the coronavirus across the city and state foreshadows massive increase in infections across the country.

Timeline: Early testing failures and Trump inaction crippled U.S. coronavirus response

March 25, 2020 By Michael Biesecker, Mike Stobbe And Matthew Perrone

“They took this as business as usual...the messaging from the White House was ‘this is not a big deal, this is no worse than the flu.’" By then, it was too late.

For panicking capitalists, resuming profit flow trumps everything

March 25, 2020 By Roberta Wood

Public health experts are united in advising Americans: “Keep your ass at home.” Trump’s panicky insistence on sabotaging that strategy is more than just ignorance and irresponsibility. It’s not the “economy” in general he’s in a...