Tag: Health & Health Care
Nos tenemos entre nosotres
Camila Valle details the history of self-managed abortion, showing that we have always healed collectively and that communities of care are where our power lies.
Turning a Profit from Death
How can we stem Narendra Modi’s murderous response to Covid-19 in India? Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya explains why anti-capitalism is central to this struggle and why Modi is by no means up to the task.
“Front Row Seat to All That’s Wrong”: School Nurse Organizing in Chicago
A rank-and-file member of the CTU speaks about his experience working as a school nurse in Chicago, covering working conditions, the pandemic, and above all, how the CTU is fighting back.
After the Pandemic Slump, What Next?
Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviewed economist Michael Roberts about global economic prospects after the corona crisis.
Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a Capitalist Virus
Rob Wallace speaks about the global capitalist roots of the current pandemic, the likelihood of future pandemics, and the types of organized resistance necessary to prevent them.
Yih and Kulldorff’s “Radical” Covid Strategy
An epidemiologist responds to two Harvard researchers who called for socialists to oppose lockdowns in the name of workers’ lives. But their argument, Michael Friedman insists, puts us all at risk – above all, workers.
Sympathy Won’t Win Us Better Conditions
A care worker writes about the struggle for PPE, wages, and job security in the UK.
15 Notes on 60 Days of Pandemic and Economic Depression in Brazil
A Brazilian historian and PSOL militant puts forward fifteen theses on the limits and opportunities in a conjuncture marked by multiple nested crises in his country
