
South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus infections in Africa, topping 1200 as of March 30, including the second Covid-19 fatality. More than twenty-five years after the ANC’s triumph and Nelson […]
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South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus infections in Africa, topping 1200 as of March 30, including the second Covid-19 fatality. More than twenty-five years after the ANC’s triumph and Nelson […]
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte introduced aggressive measures two weeks ago in the face of spreading coronavirus infections, describing the outbreak as “the fight of our lives.” Yet confirmed cases have risen from […]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has outdone even President Trump in denying the coronavirus’s lethality. While Trump hems and haws about testing and recently mused that he wants the U.S. economy “open by […]
As this interview demonstrates, farmworkers are on the frontline of the coronavirus epidemic, but that doesn’t mean the American government will treat them with the respect they deserve. According to a recent […]
Activists and researchers from across Africa speak about the impact of Covid-19 on their countries. Writing from Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Nigeria and Zimbabwe, Femi Aborisade, Heike Becker, Didier Kiendrebeogo, Gacheke […]
This statement by the Puerto Rican Broad Front in Defense of Public Education describes how educators, parents, and students stopped a proposal to privative aspects distance learning (online) in the wake of […]
As of March 28, France ranks fifth in global Covid-19 deaths, with 1,995 deaths (365 and 299 on Thursday and Friday respectively) and approximately 33,000 dedected coronavirus infections. As the contagion rages […]
Late on March 24, Ireland’s Health Minister Simon Davis announced “For the duration of this crisis the State will take control of all private hospital facilities and manage all of the resources […]
This statement was published by the South African Federation of Trade Unions and is republished here by No Borders News as part of our ongoing international coronavirus coverage. The anti-viral lockdown is […]
Roberto Luzzi, leader of the Italian labor union, SI Cobas, Sindicati Interaziendali Comitati di Base (Cross-industry Base Committees), explains how the compulsion for profit has transformed Italy into the most intense Covid-19 […]