How do those who don’t have dollars live in Venezuela?

Caracas Published Feb. 21 in Sputniknews.com. Translation by Michael Otto. There is more and more talk about how dollars circulate in certain parts of Caracas. But what happens to those who don’t have access to the U.S. currency or have it only sporadically? How do they come to grips with . . .

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Seattle: Workers need health care, not Trumpcare! WW commentary

Seattle March 9 — In Washington state, there were 15 deaths from COVID-19 (coronavirus) and 79 diagnosed cases of the disease as of March 6.  With the epidemic growing there, the state’s Department of Health reported 22 deaths and 162 cases as of today. Most fatalities have occurred at the . . .

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Mass organizing to win revolutionary socialism — WW commentary

Revolutionary change is coming. As the ravenous capitalist class continues their ruthless plundering of labor value from working people, societal contradictions race toward a breaking point. The younger generation in particular is being driven into intolerable economic insecurity. People of color, always a target of ruling class oppression, are increasingly . . .

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What the virus demands — workers need protection

Caption: Hospitality workers in New Orleans stormed into Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s news conference on March 9 to demand emergency sick pay and health coverage, and an emergency order from the city that no one be fired or evicted from their homes due to COVID-19 illness. Credit: Gavrielle Gemma As more . . .

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French anti-worker pension plan becomes law without a vote 

Hundreds of thousands of people have been in the streets protesting for months. Transportation strikes have disrupted travel. Public opinion supports the strikes, even though they were extremely inconvenient. Students and teachers from primary grades to universities have walked out repeatedly. Still, the French government under President Emmanuel Macron — . . .

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