The global implications of the Trump-Kennedy war on science
This speech was given by Evan Blake, Coordinator of the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Evan Blake•
The struggle of health care workers
US healthcare workers union president ousted by opposition slate following corruption scandal
The scandal lifts the lid on how the union bureaucracy as a whole lives—its corrupt appetites, its essentially parasitic and hostile relationship to the workers they claim to represent and their deep ties to management and the capitalist parties.
Robert Milkowski•
“We tried very hard to warn authorities about the dangers from these pathogens”
An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan lab lie and the defense of science—Part 1
In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
“This was the heart and soul of our community”: Residents speak against hospital closures in Chester and Ridley Park, Pennsylvania
Residents expressed anger over the shuttering of the hospitals by a Texas bankruptcy court.
Matt Allen, Tom Eley•
NHS FightBack•
Richard Phillips, Margaret Rees•
Liz Cabrera•
NHS FightBack•
Erik Schreiber•
Build rank-and-file committees throughout the healthcare industry!
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The WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter fights to unite all healthcare workers with the entire working class to maintain safe working conditions, oppose hospital closures and layoffs, and defend the right to high quality health care.
What must be done to end the pandemic
This video describes the current surge of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, reviews the immense societal impacts of Long COVID and outlines a strategy of what must be done to end the pandemic. It has subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish and Italian.
Sri Lankan government’s assault pushes health services to the brink
The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic problems, within the capitalist system.
Saman Gunadasa•
Australia: Midwives protest staffing cuts at Sydney’s RPA Hospital
Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital announced the immediate slashing of 20 full-time equivalent roles in the birthing and delivery unit.
Our reporters•
NUHW aborts UCSF Children’s Hospital strike after management announces 200 system-wide layoffs
The union bureaucracy has shut down the strike of 1,300 workers at precisely the moment when a broadening of the struggle is needed.
Max Jones, Jonathan Burleigh•
Verdi trade union sells out ancillary workers at Berlin’s Charité hospital
The new contract is a slap in the face to the ancillary workers, cooked up behind closed doors between management, the union and Berlin’s state government.
Markus Salzmann•
A doctor•
Jenny Campbell•
Our reporters•
Margaret Rees, Martin Scott•
Marc Wells•
Family of Detroit autoworker who died of COVID-19 demands answers
In this video testimony, Catherine Pace’s family describes the working conditions which led to her death and the deaths of countless other autoworkers during the still-raging pandemic.
Jerry White, James Brewer•
“The worst is the fatigue, it feels like I have 500 pounds strapped to me”
Retired workers suffering from Long COVID in Flint, Michigan, speak to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ed, a retired auto worker, and Tammy, a retired care worker, have been “living with” COVID-19 for two years, and they’ve had enough.
Tim Rivers, Evan Blake•
"It's going to keep killing us, the ones who forcibly have to work."
Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Tim Rivers, Zac Corrigan•
“This is a warfare of the upper classes against the lower classes”
Health care expert Gregory Travis speaks on the impacts of COVID-19 on children, misinformation and the cover-up of data
Travis exposes the lies and misinformation spread about COVID-19, in particular its impacts on children, and documents the steady erosion of data tracking over the past year and during the Omicron surge.
Evan Blake•
Zac Corrigan•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Richard Phillips, Cheryl Crisp•
Richard Phillips•
Evan Blake•
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