Center for Disease Control (CDC)

Weapons of Mass Incompetence

June 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Public Health

These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the “U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners” webinar teach-in sponsored by Mobilization4Mumia and held in honor of the 66th birthday of political prisoner and revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal. by Vijay Prashad, published on Workers World, May 19, 2020 We are in Corona shock. The bourgeois order has become a prison. We are in[…]

Pandemic Explodes, Capitalist Economy Tanks

April 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Economic Collapse, Public Health

by James Fortin, published by Socialist Action, March 31, 2020 Now that the COVID-19 contagion has spread to the 4 corners of the globe, the unpreparedness of the capitalist state, and the outright disregard by the ruling class for the fate of the working people of the United States, has come into full view. Underlying a perfect-storm scenario is the[…]

Layoffs Skyrocket, Virus Deaths Soar, Opposition Grows

April 18, 2020 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Healthcare, Human Rights, Public Health, The War at Home, War on the Poor

by James Fortrin, published on Socialist Action, March 31, 2020 This article is long but it tells us, in detail, how we got to where we are now, with the economy shut down and schools closed (for the year in many places), thousands sick and dying and people who supported themselves only a month ago lining up at food pantries[…]

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[…]