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** Black essential workers refuse to be invisible ([link removed] )
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April 12 — Just last week, U.S. bourgeois papers — the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles, Boston Globe and others — published major articles on the devastating numbers of confirmed infections and deaths of African Americans caused by COVID-19. The articles emphasized the numbers were disproportionate compared to . . .
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** Prisoners rebel during pandemic ([link removed] )
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Prioritizing prisons, police and punitive responses to social issues is a public health crisis. These approaches are only aggravated by the global coronavirus pandemic. Incarcerated people, whether they are in jails, prisons or migrant detention centers, are facing down death sentences in overcrowded facilities with limited access to sanitation as . . .
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** WW editorial: Why we say ‘Free them all!’ ([link removed] )
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There were 27 progressive demands made by a united front of Black, Latinx and anti-racist white incarcerated men who carried out the historic Attica Prison rebellion in September 1971. This was point 8: “We Demand that inmates be granted the right to join or form labour unions.” Point 7 read . . .
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** Virus statistics reveal class truth ([link removed] )
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Because China is the most populous country in the world, and also the first to become infected with the COVID-19 virus, it is revealing to revisit from time to time the statistics on the epidemic’s progress there, compared to what is happening in the U.S. What can we learn from . . .
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** Navy carrier crew caught in Trump regime battle ([link removed] )
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April 13 — Some 580 of the 4,800 sailors in the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for COVID-19 as of today. One sailor has already died. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has revealed and exacerbated a bitter conflict within the Navy command and . . .
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** Entrevista: Trabajador de Amazon lucha contra el multimillonario Bezos ([link removed] )
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Chris Smalls es un ex trabajador de Amazon que fue despedido por organizar una huelga el 30 de marzo en las instalaciones de JFK8 Amazon en Staten Island, Nueva York. Los jefes se negaron a cerrar la instalación a pesar de los casos confirmados de COVID-19 entre los trabajadores. A . . .
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