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.
The WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter fights to unite all healthcare workers with the entire working class to maintain safe working conditions, oppose hospital closures and layoffs, and defend the right to high quality health care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
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.