Tag: Labor
My Fight as a Worker and as a Feminist During COVID-19
An Italian textile worker reflects on the economic crisis surrounding COVID-19, its specific impacts on woman workers, and the urgent need for a feminist labor movement.
The Only Way Out of the Crisis Is to Fight for Open Borders
With urgency and coherency, all movements emanating from this crisis must begin with the call for open borders. But what does this mean in practical terms for the class struggle to come?
Covid Capitalism
Covid-19 has starkly revealed not only the brutal systemic priorities of capitalism—profit-making over life-making—but also the relationship between capital and the capitalist state form. We should be attentive to this relationship in order to face a darker truth about this crisis: that it is far from an anomaly and that lacking a body blow to the system, we should prepare for a world where such crises and its effects become part of our daily lives.
Learning from Las Vegas
Alex Doris discusses Bernie Sanders victory in Nevada’s Democractic Party primary in terms of the Culinary union there, health care, “fortress unionism,’ mass COIVD-19 layoffs and lessons for the left.
Transit Workers’ Struggle in a Pandemic
A transit worker writes of the political potential of the demand for PPE.
Only the Rank and File Can Save Us Now
Organizing, workplace action, and basic protective equipment is not a privilege. It is a necessity if we want to be able to contain Covid-19 and for saving the lives of nurses and patients.
How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19
Historically, most epidemics have spread geographically through two common forms of long-distance movement: trade and war. The timing, however, changed dramatically with the rise of capitalism.
Fighting to Save Lives in a World That Doesn’t Value Them
The Trump administration and employers didn’t prioritize saving lives over saving money. Nurses did.
Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World
We must do everything that we can to create a new, just, equitable and ecologically regenerative economy. The question is: how?
On Social Reproduction and the Covid-19 Pandemic
This pandemic, and the ruling class response to it, offers a clear and tragic illustration of the idea at the heart of Social Reproduction Theory.