Bosses get lion’s share of stimulus package

March 27 — The so-called stimulus bill, providing $2 trillion as a response to the capitalist economic crash triggered by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, passed the House of Representatives today and went to the president for his signature. The final bill, compared to the one proposed earlier in the week . . .

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Spa workers take direct action in Austin, Texas – WW commentary

Austin, Texas The writer is a worker at a health spa in Austin. March 16 — The spread of coronavirus COVID-19 throughout the U.S. has opened wide the many contradictions inherent in the capitalist system — most importantly, the contradiction between workers and the capital that binds them. Here in . . .

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Greater Boston Marxists Association builds frameworks of solidarity, community care

Special to Workers World The following interview was conducted for Workers World by Monica Moorehead, a managing editor of WW, with Leighsandra and Queen-Cheyenne, co-presidents of the Greater Boston Marxists Association that originated in the Marxist Student Association at Suffolk University in Boston. Leighsandra, Queen-Cheyenne, Feb. 22. Photo: Stevan Kirschbaum . . .

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After teachers protest, New York City closes schools

New York On March 22, Education Week Magazine announced that 118,000 schools with 53.7 million students had been closed to protect students and staff and their families from contracting the coronavirus COVID-19. As of March 24, the only states that have not closed all their schools are Idaho, Iowa, Maine . . .

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Shale oil, energy debt and false promises

Even before the first case of the coronavirus COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, fault lines were appearing in financial markets here. Corporate debt reached 75 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. It had more than tripled to a record $16 trillion — three times the 2008 global . . .

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