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** 100+ strikes demand: PPE before profits! ([link removed] )
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Since the beginning of March, workers have held over 100 walkouts, sick-outs, sit-ins, pickets and protests over their bosses’ failure to protect them from the highly contagious coronavirus. Common demands include adequate personal protective equipment, modifications to the work environment, hazard pay, paid sick leave and the shutdown of nonessential . . .
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** Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters respond quickly to prison hoax ([link removed] )
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When a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson callously claimed that Mumia Abu-Jamal was being hospitalized with COVID-19 at 5 p.m. on April 15, the news was shared worldwide in minutes. Supporters, who have been misled by DOC statements in the past, immediately flooded the institution with calls demanding confirmation from . . .
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** Big money backs ultra-rightist protests to ‘open the economy’ ([link removed] )
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Amidst the unending stream of grim news flowing from the COVID crisis, a new disturbing image has emerged over the past week: the sight of Trump supporters congregating in large, potentially infectious, groups to protest in states all over the nation. In flagrant contravention of stay-at-home orders, public safety, common . . .
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** Co-morbidities of capitalism ([link removed] )
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** ‘The real criminals are not in prison’ ([link removed] )
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The following excerpted remarks were made by Gloria Rubac, a longtime Texas anti-death penalty activist, on an April 9 Workers World Party webinar entitled “Free them all”. Go to tinyurl.com/y993k6rj to hear all the talks. Why do we say FREE THEM ALL! Who’s in prison and where do these prisons . . .
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** How the World Health Organization supports Africa’s response to COVID-19 ([link removed] )
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As of April 18, according to the African Centers for Disease Control, there were 21,990 cases of COVID-19 in Africa, with no country having more than 3,000 confirmed cases. Africa is home to 1.3 billion people. Many of the 52 countries that make up the African Union are small, impoverished, . . .
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** Comentario de WW/MO Organizar asambleas obreras, ¡construir un mundo obrero! ([link removed] )
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Quemando las comunidades como un fuego furioso, el COVID-19 nos quita a los más vulnerables. Ya envenenado por el racismo ambiental, las personas de color están siendo consumidas por el virus a tasas extremadamente desproporcionadas. A los estratos más pobres de la clase trabajadora, ahora denominados esenciales, no se les . . .
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