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Anti-Asian Racism Accelerates

March 24, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Racism

by Minnie Bruce Pratt, published on Workers World, March 22, 2020 As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic accelerates in the U.S. — amid appeals for the population to “work together” — hateful anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racism is being incited at the highest level of government. In a March 8 press conference, President Donald Trump claimed his repeated use of “Chinese virus”[…]

The Decade of Transformation is Here: Remaking Healthcare

March 24, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Public Health, Shortages of Supplies

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, published on Popular Resistance, March 22, 2020 We’ve been writing for a while that the 2020’s would be a decade when multiple crises would come to a head and we would have an opportunity for major transformations if we were organized to mobilize and demand them. The current coronavirus pandemic, economic collapse, and falling[…]

Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis

March 24, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Human Rights, Socialism

from Workers World, published March 18, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, the government’s response to the crisis has been criminally negligent, while capitalists would rather risk workers’ health than stop production for profit. As the ruling class shows itself to be incapable of addressing the crisis, how can we, as working class and oppressed people, organize to[…]

French Strikes Wane, But Not the Outrage

March 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Resistance

by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, March 20, 2020 The massive strike wave begun Dec. 5 in France against a proposed rollback of pension rights has slowed down. Disruptive strikes and giant marches of mostly public workers across the country topped over 1.5 million, but the leading edge of the movement, city and regional rail and bus workers, announced[…]

Late Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions

March 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Economics, US Government Action

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, March 19, 2020 The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent. “Citizens have become aware that the oligarchs – their rulers — are the vectors of mass insecurity, sickness[…]

COVID-19: The Monster Is At the Door

March 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, US Government Action, War on the Poor

by Mike Davis, published on Black Agenda Report March 18, 2020 The danger to the global poor has been almost totally ignored by journalists and Western governments. “COVID-19 might take a different and more deadly path in the slums of Africa and South Asia.” I. COVID -19 is finally the monster at the door. Researchers are working night and day[…]

The Importance of Neighborhood Banks

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Economics

Ellen Brown Interviews Economist Michael Hudson on Its Our Money, Show #124, March 12, 2020 Michael Hudson: [00:00:00] There’s recognition that commercial banking has become dysfunctional and that most loans by commercial banks are either against assets – in which case the lending inflates the prices of real estate, stocks and bonds – or for corporate takeover loans. The economy’s[…]

Statement of Socialist Action National Committee: Coronavirus Threatens the Lives of Billions

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Poverty, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home

By James Fortin and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 21, 2019 As the devastating novel coronavirus (COVID-19) literally threatens the lives of billions of the earth’s people, two truths about the contagion remain unchallenged: All nations are ill-prepared for the arrival of the virus, and once it lands, despite herculean efforts in some cases, little can be done[…]

Why Sanctions During a Pandemic are Cruel and Mean Spirited

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Economics, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Vijay Prashad and Paulo Estrada, published on MROnline, March 16, 2020 Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing across continents, skipping over oceans, terrifying populations in every country. The numbers of those infected rises, as do the numbers of those who have died. Hands are being washed, tests are being done, and social distance has become a new phrase.[…]

Coronavirus and the Antiwar Movement

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Economics, Featured, Healthcare, Public Health, Resistance, Statement

UNAC Administrative Committee, 3/18/20 The coronavirus is serious, and our movement needs to take it seriously. We must protect ourselves and each other. These are the sentiments that brought us to the movement in the first place. For a coalition like UNAC, which has always supported street demonstrations, face-to-face meetings and mass actions, we need to rethink our activity during[…]