The same proposals that were demonized yesterday as radical socialism are embraced today to save the society from collapse.
Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
President Maduro: Venezuela faces the COVID-19 With voluntary quarantine without curfew or State of Exception (Interviewed by Alfredo Serrano)
“Without a doubt, the first measure to contain the transmission chains of Covid-19 is quarantine, and we took it in advance on March 16,” Nicolás Maduro Moros, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, told in the Argentinian multimedia show La Pizarra, led by Alfredo Serrano Mancilla.
Problem with what’s taught in school || Spoken Word
The Problem with whats taught in School. What do you think? Comments? Thoughts? Lets start a conversation.
Pandemic story: failures, forebodings, signs of solidarity
A great hazard looms. Under duress and as chaos mounts, capital may find it useful to revert to the extremist, even brutal, measures figuring in its past.
Charles Bradley: Why Is It So Hard to Make It in America?
If you got a clean heart and a clean mind and you have been abused, used, and refused—that is soul.
The parched West is heading into a global warming-fueled megadrought that could last for centuries
Warmer temperatures and shifting storm tracks are drying up vast stretches of land in North and South America.
Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it’s easy to see how epidemiology came next.
Without a country in which to live, a field to plant, a love to cherish or a voice to sing, one is dead
Local communities have demonstrated remarkable generosity, but cannot cope anymore. National capacities are overwhelmed. The approaching lean season, coupled with the armed conflict and the COVID-19, will generate further dramatic situations and displacements of populations. The clock is ticking; we have little time left.
Avoid austerity to prevent a state and local coronavirus depression
Local budget cuts enacted a decade ago left states and cities dangerously unprepared for COVID-19. We shouldn’t make those same mistakes again.
Neoliberalism and finance capital have been defeated by coronavirus
The member of MST’s national board analyzes the current international and Brazilian contexts in wake of the coronavirus pandemic
Empire Files: U.S. empire exploits COVID-19 for more war
Abby Martin breaks down all the hidden acts of US foreign policy aggression under the cover of the COVID19 pandemic.
The Social Democratic pipedream
Today in the United States, there has been an upsurge in social democracy/democratic socialism (I use these terms interchangeably; I don’t see much difference between them, at least in the U.S.) The main current of social democracy is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), whose overall political perspective can be described as follows.
China syndrome
As Donald Trump and his band of “hacks and grifters” are preparing to prematurely reopen the U.S. economy, they’re also rehearsing the language they’ll use to justify their irresponsible decisions. Here’s how Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser, is discussing the terms of the reopening: The unfair China trade shock that hit so many […]
Disunited States: Government failure to address Coronavirus is sparking a mutual aid revolution
As state and local authorities struggle and the federal government focus on saving Wall Street, a volunteer-driven mutual aid revolution is taking hold in disenfranchised communities across America.
I mind dying
If the coronavirus lockdown leads to a fall in GDP of more than 6.4% more years of life will be lost due to recession than will be gained through beating the virus.
On social reproduction and the Covid-19 pandemic
“This pandemic can, and should, be a moment when the left puts forward a concrete agenda for how to support life over profit in a way that will help us move beyond capitalism.”
Data show COVID-19 is hitting essential workers and people of color hardest
Newly released data from the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) show that COVID-19 is present at higher rates in certain Boston communities, including Hyde Park, Mattapan, Dorchester, and East Boston.
Coronavirus and the politics of disposability
COVID-19 is having a disproportionate effect among vulnerable populations. When the dust settles, as in all U.S. disasters, there will be a tale to tell of who mattered and who was sacrificed.
Combatting COVID-19 through solidarity
Despite a deep economic recession, a profound political crisis and international sanctions that have ravaged its health sector, the South American nation of Venezuela is demonstrating that prioritising lives is possible in the battle against COVID-19.
President Maduro announced 6 new confirmed coronavirus cases for a 181 total–Venezuela moving to massive screenings
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros , reported this Sunday that 6 new positive cases for Covid -19 were recorded in the country, for a total of 181 infected patients and zero [new] fatalities.
