As of May 17, Belgium is reporting 54,989 coronavirus infections and 9,005 Covid-19 deaths, the highest per capita death rate in the world. As the U.S. and other major economies relax social […]
Jonah X: Push for productivity will spread the virus
André Freire: 25,000 dead in Brazil, no end in sight
As of May 16, Brazil is reporting 218,233 coronavirus infections and 14,817 Covid-19 deaths. The real number is likely at least twice as high and it is growing at a terrifying rate. Neo-fascist President […]
Stalin Pérez Borges: Holding Covid-19 at bay in Venezuela
As of May 15, Venezuela is reporting 455 coronavirus infections and just 10 Covid-19 deaths. However, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in neighboring Columbia and (especially) Brazil are trapped in pandemic […]
Anticapitalistas parts ways with Podemos in the Spanish State
Six years after helping initiate PODEMOS (a broad left-wing party) in the Spanish State, and four months after Pablo Iglesias led that party into a coalition government with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (SPOE), the revolutionary […]
Paula Nunes, Valerio Arcary: Brazil, Bolsonaro, and Covid-19 (video)
Official statistics list more than 12,000 Covid-19 deaths in Brazil. The real number is likely at least twice as high and it is growing at a terrifying rate. Neo-fascist President Jair Bolsonaro is encouraging far-right […]
Au Loong-Yu: When bureaucracy overrode fighting epidemic in China
The Wuhan Covid-19 epidemic spread in lightning speed and it has turned into a global pandemic. It was avoidable from the very beginning. There were several weeks to stop it from spreading […]
Appeal to support Brazilian socialists.
Official statistics list more than 10,000 Covid-19 deaths in Brazil. The real number is likely at least twice as high and it is growing at a terrifying rate. Meanwhile, neo-fascist President Jair […]
André Singer: Covid-19 and Bolsonaro’s “permanent radicalization”
Already immersed in an overlapping health and economic crisis, Brazil is now also being engulfed by a political crisis. On April 23, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro sacked the head of the Federal […]
Valerio Arcary: The left must lead the fight to impeach Bolsonaro
As of May 9, Brazil is reporting 146,894 coronavirus infections and 10,017 Covid-19 deaths, figures that grossly underrepresent the real toll, but nonetheless herald Brazil as a global epicenter in the pandemic. Although many […]
Luciana Genro: Taking stock of the quarantine in Brazil
As of May 7, Brazil is reporting 126,611 coronavirus infections and 8,588 Covid-19 deaths (up from 1000 one month ago) even as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro continues to claim that the “worst […]
