Since a new strain of pneumonia-causing virus hit China in late December, there has been a massive response by the central and local governments. On Dec. 31, China alerted the World Health Organization that it had detected a pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in central . . .
Continue reading China mobilizes to combat coronavirus at Workers.org
As the process to impeach Donald Trump moves forward in the U.S. Congress, it raises important questions that need to be addressed by the progressive movement. Which political grouping within the U.S. ruling class has the upper hand at this point? Is it those who favor liberalism, that is, the . . .
Continue reading Trump, Bolton and the impeachment process at Workers.org
The Jan. 23 announcement that the U.S. would resume diplomatic relations with Bolivia’s government — after breaking them with Evo Morales’s progressive government 11 years ago — should come as no surprise. The current regime in the Andean country was established by a right-wing coup, carried out by racist, anti-Indigenous . . .
Continue reading Washington embraces Bolivia’s rightists at Workers.org
The U.S. state continues its war drive, pushed by ruling- class desperation to maintain capitalist economic domination. While the U.S. has not carried out further military strikes on Iran, it has imposed even harsher sanctions in an economic war that could claim untold numbers of Iranian lives. More than ever, . . .
Continue reading Global Day of Protest rallies against U.S. war at Workers.org
The 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized women’s right to choose abortion, was Jan. 22. While religious anti-abortion forces have been trying to overturn it ever since, the threat has never been greater — especially with woman-hater, racist, anti-LGBTQ2+ Trump in control of the . . .
Continue reading 47 years after Roe v. Wade: Fight continues for reproductive justice at Workers.org
Hundreds of thousands — maybe millions — of Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad, Basra and other major Iraqi cities on Jan. 24. They demanded the U.S. pull its remaining 5,200 troops out of Iraq. U.S. imperialism has occupied Iraq since the 2003 illegal invasion of the country, carried out under the . . .
Continue reading Iraqi protests demand: U.S. troops get OUT! at Workers.org
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