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.
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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.
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“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.
Royal College of Nursing blocks pay fight against Starmer government
Streeting’s “Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan”—a blueprint for accelerating NHS privatisation—is proceeding apace with no opposition from the health unions.
Rory Wood•
Australia: NSW doctors oppose meagre Labor government pay offer
While doctors want to reject the deal and resume industrial action, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation is adopting a “neutral” position, continuing to enforce a strike ban and seeking to subordinate the physicians’ struggle to arbitration.
Clare Bruderlin, Martin Scott•
Oppose sellout of resident doctors by the BMA: for a unified struggle of NHS workers against Starmer government
Talks with Health Secretary Wes Streeting have been described as a “window of opportunity” to rule out any further strike action for the summer period, while the RDC attempt to cobble together a sellout they can put a face-saving spin on.
Tony Robson•
Sri Lankan health workers and patients’ relatives denounce public hospital crisis
Patients and workers in Sri Lankan hospitals confront aging equipment, collapsing infrastructure, drug shortages and severe understaffing.
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Tom Peters•
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Kate Randall•
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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•
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