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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Fill out this form to be contacted about joining the committee nearest you. If a committee at your workplace does not exist, we will help you build one.
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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.
Strike by Henry Ford Genesys nurses in sixth week, as management ramps up strikebreaking
It is critical for striking Genesys workers to broaden their fight, mobilizing maximum support from the working class, including autoworkers, in the region and around the state.
Shannon Jones•
46,000 Kaiser workers set to walk out October 14: Build rank-and-file committees to transform strike into battle for public health and democracy
The following is an open letter from the WSWS Healthcare Worker Newsletter to the nearly 46,000 Kaiser Permanente workers.
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Kaiser healthcare workers connect upcoming national strike with fight against Trump
This strike is not simply a contract dispute over wages or staffing levels. It is a political confrontation with the corporate oligarchy which is destroying public health.
Marc Wells, Liz Cabrera•
Airedale hospital support staff strike against Trust’s outsourcing company and two-tier workforce
The fight at Airedale hospital cannot be won through action against a single Trust. It requires a far wider mobilisation against the SubCos throughout the National Health Service—a struggle which all the unions have divided and demobilised.
Tony Robson•
Tom Hall, Erik Schreiber•
Kevin Reed•
Clare Bruderlin, Martin Scott•
Rory Woods•
Tom Peters•
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•
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