The devastation of the coronavirus pandemic is a product of capitalism, a system that puts profit over the lives of people. Only the working class and a workers’ government, armed with a revolutionary socialist program, can put an end to this nightmare!

COVID19: Banks and Big Business Profit from Scarcity & Price-Gouging

The most nefarious element in the response to the COVID-19 crisis are the actions of those seeking to make top dollar from the artificial scarcity and oligopoly of the American healthcare system in this time […]

Prisons, Policing, and the Pandemic

US prisons have long been inhumane and overcrowded facilities where poor people are arbitrarily confined in horrible conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to escalate this to new levels.

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The Class Interests Behind Social Distancing, Lockdowns, and “Stay At Home” Orders

Social distancing in and of itself is an iron necessity for addressing the spread of COVID-19. However, the capitalist state cannot coordinate the response required to stem the disease significantly.

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The Lessons of the Italian Coronavirus Crisis for the Workers of the World

The coronavirus crisis in Italy has brought out the real nature of capitalism. Profit is being placed before lives, but the working class is reacting with militant strike action. What lessons can be drawn for […]

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[Video] COVID-19 and the Crisis of US Capitalism

Tonight at 7PM ET John Peterson will introduce our new live video series with an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the economy and shaping the class struggle in the US.

Coronavirus and the Shock Doctrine: Capitalism is the Disaster

In 2007, the author Naomi Klein wrote the book The Shock Doctrine. In it, she described “disaster capitalism”: a political approach to disasters that seeks to maximize private profit in their aftermath. As the scale […]

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Pandemics, Profiteering, and Big Pharma: How Capitalism Plagues Public Health

A perfect storm of private sector profiteering, reckless production practices, environmental destruction, and underinvestment in medical research has made global pandemics more common, and undermined our capacity to deal with them.

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California’s Homeless Show the Way Forward

Faced with the threat of contagion, L.A.’s homeless are organizing to protect their lives. Several people, among them working families, have begun occupying vacant houses.

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A Socialist Program to Fight COVID-19 and the Economic Crisis

The devastation of the coronavirus pandemic is a product of capitalism, a system that puts profit over the lives of people. Only a revolutionary socialist program can end this nightmare!

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COVID-19 and NYC’s Sick Public School System

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio’s treatment of the NYC Public Schools is an indictment of capitalism’s prioritization of profits over the well-being and safety of its youth and workers.

Gig Workers in the Time of COVID-19

Whenever there is a crisis of any kind, you can count on corporate America to try to use it to enhance their brand’s image, and the novel coronavirus pandemic is no exception. As an example, […]

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Capitalism Threatens to Throw Us Back to the Dark Ages

The coronavirus pandemic is shutting down society and paralyzing production around the world. The global capitalist system is facing an existential crisis, with a slump that is affecting all countries simultaneously.