As these workers continue to struggle, more victories will follow. And hopefully, what also follows is more urgency for working people to take control of society and seize power. Hear PSL Central Committee Member Andrew Nance speak on fighting for worker power.
As organizers and revolutionaries, we're not trying to be spectators of a political process. We have to bring to bear the full power of the working class, so that we can advance the struggle. Hear PSL Central Committee member Ben Becker speak on FIGHTING BACK as the working class.
Why did the U.S. government spend all of its time inciting hatred against China, instead of preparing for the crisis? Our fight back must hold the leaders of this country responsible for this growing crisis. Hear PSL Central Committee member Sheila Xiao speak on the need to fight racism and scapegoating.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to intensify, poor and oppressed communities will be the hardest hit. This can be seen in Albany, a city of approximately 70,000 people in Southwest Georgia. As of April 17, there have been at least 2,030 confirmed cases, making Albany a city with one of the highest number of coronavirus cases per capita in the world. Additionally, the 78 deaths in Dougherty County, of which Albany is county seat, are the most of any in Georgia. The outbreak has completely over...
Walkouts, sickouts, sit-ins, picket lines and other forms of protest are sweeping the country from New York to Alabama to California. Essential workers are taking the initiative to demand the on-the-job protective equipment and support necessary to protect themselves against the COVID-19 virus and survive. The strike wave is an angry response to a corporate establishment that has shown no social obligation to them during the pandemic, and to a federal government which has given trillions of doll...
At time of publication, only ten countries in the world have surpassed Michigan in their total number of COVID-19 deaths. Michigan, a state with a population of less than 10 million people, has exceeded Canada’s number of cases confirmed today. Wayne County, which houses Detroit, has surpassed the entire state of California in total number of deaths, and has nearly eclipsed Brazil as well. At Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, images have recently surfaced of human bodies being stored in vacant ho...
Across the country support for incarcerated people has become a rallying cry for all progressive people and organizations. Simultaneously, spontaneous prison actions of resistance have become increasingly regular in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas City started a tier wide uprising forcing guards to retreat from the section of the prison, cellhouse C, where incarcerated people set fires and stormed offices. A rallying call from the pris...
While the COVID-19 crisis continues to escalate across the United States, more and more workers are being backed into life or death situations. The crisis is not simply a result of the virus itself but the lack of material governmental response. Many workers, impacted by cuts in hours, job losses or mass school closings are now struck by deep financial precarity, unsure of where next month’s rent money will come from. The lowest paid and most oppressed workers have been hit the hardest. For work...
Without pressure from the working class, capitalists and the politicians who serve them will concede nothing. This pandemic has exposed how broken the system is, and how deadly the consequences are. We stand in solidarity with the striking workers and the unemployed in these and future crucial struggles. The 3.3 million people who filed for unemployment benefits as the Coronavirus shutdown began have been joined by an additional 6.6 million newly-unemployed workers in the latest weekly Labor Dep...
This is a segment from our livestream featuring leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the coronavirus, capitalism and the class struggle.
Are relief measures socialist? This is a segment from our livestream featuring leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the coronavirus, capitalism and the class struggle.
When the virus hit, the rich turned tail and ran. New York is the big money city, the city of Wall Street and the epicenter of capitalism. With at least 65 billionaires and 350,000 millionaires, it is the richest city in the world. Those who claim to make the world turn have not only been absolutely useless in this health crisis, they also have been dangerous. In the rush to save their necks they did not flee the virus, they took it with them. Their mass exodus to Hamptons coincides with a steep...
Ventilators are the most the most important piece of equipment for keeping COVID-19 patients in crisis alive. Yet there is an acute shortage. There is no central coordination for getting supplies. The states have been advised by the federal government to buy ventilators and PPE on the open market. This has forced states to compete against each other for what exists. Corporations have responded to the demand by jacking up prices. Why does China have ventilators when the U.S. doesn’t? China has ve...
From colonialism to covid, Vietnam has a history of success fighting against deadly diseases. Vietnam, which shares a border with China and is about 1,200 miles from where the outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, has overcome steep odds in the global fight against COVID-19. As of April 6, the Vietnamese government has reported 245 confirmed cases with 95 recoveries and no fatalities. Vietnam’s success so far is not simply a miracle. It is the result of a heavily planned economy with a socialist...
People are seeing the starkness and brutality of this capitalist system. In this country, our healthcare is tied to our jobs. We say, free healthcare for all. Gloria La Riva, PSL 2020 Presidential Candidate This is a segment from our livestream featuring leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the coronavirus, capitalism and the class struggle.
"The bailout is a massive handout to corporations that's being spun to people as necessary." Eugene Puryear, member of the PSL Central Committee on class struggle. This is a segment from our livestream featuring leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the coronavirus, capitalism and the class struggle.
"The working class is the essential class", Brian Becker, member of the PSL Central Committee on class struggle. This is a segment from our livestream featuring leaders from the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the coronavirus, capitalism and the class struggle.
We need a people's program to fight the virus! The Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Gloria La Riva/Leonard Peltier presidential campaign call for an immediate emergency program to combat the Coronavirus crisis involving the following measures: - Full sick pay and 100% unemployment insurance for every worker, no evictions or foreclosures - War time emergency production and distribution measures - Free healthcare - Secure housing for all - Strengthen the public health system and more! Re...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which passed nearly unanimously on March 27 by Congress and was signed into law by President Trump, is not nearly enough to solve the massive problem facing working class people. Even worse, it constitutes a massive act of robbery because it transfers $454 billion of taxpayers dollars (and potentially 10 times that amount!) to the big corporations and banks. All the resources to take on this crisis exist; what’s lacking is the politi...
The Trump Administration and the establishment media have waged a campaign of criticism of China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of this diverts attention from the neglect of the Trump administration and elected officials in fighting the virus here. The following is meant to debunk these myths, to better focus upon what is needed in the U.S. to save lives here, and hold responsible people accountable. Read the full article: https://www.liberationnews.org/8-myths-and-facts-about-china-a...
As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world, criminal economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government are threatening to escalate a public health emergency into a full-blown catastrophe. U.S. sanctions have left the country without sufficient testing kits, ventilators, antiviral medicine and other life-saving supplies. While the World Health Organization, health care providers and human rights organizations have called for the lifting of the sanctions on humanita...
Urgent action is necessary. It is impossible to quarantine in the context of incarceration. Every prison, jail, juvenile facility, and immigrant detention center will become an incubator of the deadly corona virus. Social distancing is physically impossible in lower security facilities. Read the full article: https://www.liberationnews.org/arrest-the-virus-free-the-prisoners/ We cannot allow the capitalist ruling class to turn a blind eye to the plight of the incarcerated population — not in gen...
Jael Castro grew up in San Diego near the U.S.-Mexican border. Now she is a bilingual educator in San Francisco, active within the United Educators of San Francisco union, and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Here is her story. My father was undocumented while I was growing up. Although I was born here in the states, my household dealt with the issues faced by undocumented people. Read more: https://www.liberationnews.org/undocumented-during-a-capitalist-crisis/ Now, I see the...
The emergency decrees and executive orders of federal, state and local governments are not addressing the real needs to combat the disease and help the people. Tens of millions are already one paycheck away from destitution and homelessness. Without sweeping economic measures, a catastrophe of monumental proportions stands to affect tens of millions of people. As it stands, people across the United States are left to fend for themselves. Universities are closing down and evicting students from t...
The Democratic Party establishment and the major capitalist-owned media have been waging a low intensity war against the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign for the past year and it is not working too well. Now these attacks are escalating. Read the full article: https://www.liberationnews.org/the-bernie-sanders-campaign-and-building-the-movement-for-socialism-in-the-us/ The ruling class and its two political parties rightly fear that a new, truly radical and even pre-revolutionary mass movemen...
