“The analyses of events as they were unfolding were extraordinarily prescient. The great advantage of the editors and writers of the World Socialist Web Site—published by the International Committee of the Fourth International—was that they were guided by a perspective deeply informed by history and a Marxist-Trotskyist understanding of the conflict between private economic interests and the welfare of the public in modern capitalist society. On this foundation, the WSWS identified the pandemic not simply as a medical event or a biological phenomenon, but primarily as a social and political crisis of global dimensions.” from the introduction by Evan Blake
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The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.
As part of their commemoration of the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, the Times aired a special episode of their podcast The Daily titled, “Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?” to which they answer definitively “No.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this social system is in an advanced state of regression.
A publication on the discovery of a novel coronavirus by Chinese scientists has been the occasion for the Times to drum up the lab leak conspiracy once more.
Someone from the Socialist Equality Party will contact you to help build the movement for a Zero-COVID global elimination strategy
This Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, falsifications and misinformation that have been deployed to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions since the initial detection of SARS-CoV-2.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
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.
In this interview for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, flight attendant Tim Yoder shares his experiences in early 2020. Tim caught COVID-19 in mid-March 2020 after being told he was an “essential worker” and had to continue flying despite feeling ill when multiple coworkers had already tested positive for COVID-19.
Far-UVC techology can protect the population from SARS-CoV-2 and many other airborne pathogens.
“This was a historic moment in the annals of medicine... when patients came to the fore and alerted all of us scientists that something here is wrong and needs to be investigated and researched and gave the entity its name.”
Dr. Nardell, of Harvard University, is a preeminent researcher and practitioner in the field of airborne infections and the use of UV radiation to fight them.
Part two of a two-part interview on the COVID pandemic and the claims that COVID has become endemic.
Over the past week, a series of developments have reaffirmed the imminent danger of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic, for which American and world capitalism are wholly unprepared.
The Biden administration’s response to the spread of the bird flu among dairy cattle across the US over the past year amounts to nothing short of criminal negligence.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
The deepening threat of a bird flu pandemic is now concentrated in the United States, where the response of the dairy industry, in collusion with the Biden administration and all responsible federal agencies, has been nothing short of criminal.
Amid this deepening crisis, Chinese public health officials have sought to allay fears by recycling the same propaganda and lies first promoted by the Western imperialist powers.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Health based analytics estimates that COVID deaths in China have reached 1.3 million fatalities.
Xi echoed the empty platitudes of US President Joe Biden and capitalist politicians responsible for the devastation wrought globally by this preventable disease.
On October 24, 2021, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees hosted this webinar featuring leading scientists and epidemiologists from throughout the world to explain the case for the global elimination of the coronavirus.
2023 will be characterized by mass opposition of teachers and school workers to intolerable working conditions and mass infection. Teachers and school workers must learn from the experiences of the past three years, having been betrayed by the trade union bureaucracies in the interest of the capitalist state, and form independent rank-and-file committees to carry forward their fight!
Opposition to herd immunity and support for basic protective measures remains strong among broad sections of working people. These widespread sentiments must be directed towards the mobilization of the working class to fight for a global strategy to eliminate COVID-19.
The agreement is not worth the paper it is written on. It can only be described as a sellout of the struggle that thousands have been waging since the beginning of March for improvements in the working conditions in the social work and education professions.
Rank-and-file committees of educators, parents and students met across the US last weekend to adopt a resolution opposing the drive to World War III and calling for a mass movement of the working class to stop the pandemic.
The positions of the ruling class proceed from the defense of capitalist property: the private ownership of the means of production and the geostrategic interests of the nation state. The positions of the working class strive objectively toward socialism: the ending of the profit system and exploitation of labor, and its replacement with the scientifically planned reorganization of economic life on the basis of human needs and the global unification of mankind through the abolition of the nation-state system.
Amidst a lackadaisical public health response, two viruses with pandemic potential continue to spread in the United States.
With life-saving mpox vaccines barely trickling into Africa, cases continue to rise rapidly, including in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC and home to 17 million people.
Amid the World Health Organization’s declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, officials in Canada are hoping that existing therapies combined with targeted vaccination of at-risk populations can limit the spread of the disease.
This year alone, there have been 17,451 cases of mpox and 517 deaths, a case fatality rate of 2.95 percent.
All the parties of the political establishment, including the Greens, are doing everything they can, with the assistance of the corporate media, to bury all mention of the historic crimes being committed by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Monday, Juan Francisco Méndez was apprehended on a street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, after immigration police smashed his car window with a pick-axe and yanked him and his wife out of the vehicle.
A federal judge has temporarily halted the revoking of deportation protections for 532,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan immigrants.
A 38-year-old out-of-work vehicle mechanic and former Army reservist, Cody Balmer, has been arrested for the crime.
The purpose of the IRS layoffs is to facilitate tax fraud by the wealthy and eliminate the programs their taxes help fund.
Prolific film biographer and historian Patrick McGilligan has written an immensely valuable and entertaining biography of the American comic-filmmaker.
New York City’s public education system is facing an impending crisis as federal, state, and local budget cuts converge with a deepening social crisis, threatening essential programs and the futures of hundreds of thousands of students.
Seven more major US law firms have made deals pledging hundreds of millions in legal services to Trump-approved causes, even though a fourth federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration is engaged in illegal coercion and interfering with attorney-client relationships.
The destruction of the Head Start program, part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” would eliminate education and social services for nearly 800,000 children and result in the loss of a quarter of a million jobs.
The re-election of Noboa was achieved on the shoulders of the military-police apparatus and of US imperialism, consolidating the direct dictatorship of the Ecuadorian oligarchy.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) demands the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi and calls for the broadest possible resistance among workers and youth to this further assault on democratic rights.
On Saturday, around 400 demonstrators protested at Leopoldplatz in Berlin’s working-class district of Wedding against the deportations of refugees, including Palestinians, to Greece.
The WSWS spoke recently with Patrick McGilligan, author of Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham.
Although the immediate cause of the students’ reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor quality of education, lack of a future, growing social inequality and state repression.
Workers in Israel must adopt a new political axis, in unity with and fighting for the liberation of the Palestinian masses from Zionist oppression.
The list already includes over 6,300 individuals, and officials admit it will likely expand.
The Key Bridge collapse led to the deaths of six construction workers and untold economic damages for the Chesapeake Bay region.
The determined fight against management’s refusal to pay an annual bonus makes clear that workers will not tolerate attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions.
The National Party-led government’s plan to lift defence spending from 1 to 2 percent of GDP, as it prepares to join US-led wars, is fully supported by the opposition Labour Party.
The Ombudsman’s report contained shocking pictures of the primitive, unhygienic and cramped cells in which captured asylum seekers have been held indefinitely on military vessels.
