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 […]
ROAPE: Out of Control — Crisis, Covid-19 and Capitalism in Africa
Puerto Rican Educators: Stopping coronavirus privatization of online learning
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 […]
Pierre Rousset: 2,000 dead as coronavirus ravages France
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 […]
Eamonn McCann: Ireland nationalizes hospitals – “It can be done”
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 […]
South African Federation of Trade Unions: The state isn’t pulling its weight!
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: Facing the coronavirus-capitalist epidemic in Italy
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 […]
Javier Pineda: Popular revolt, feminist mass strikes, and Covid-19 in Chile
As is the case everywhere, the big news in Chile is the rapidly escalating coronavirus contagion. But just last October, Chile’s neoliberal order was shaken to its core when a popular revolt […]
Dr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee: India’s People’s Health Movement prepares for Covid-19 (video)
India has document over 500 cases of coronavirus and recorded at least ten deaths as of March 24. The Indian government ordered a one-day lockdown on March 22 to test preparedness in expectation […]
Silvia Ferraro and Waldo Mermelstein: Brazil’s workers strike for the right to quarantine
Although not yet at the top of the Covid-19 international headlines, Brazil may soon emerge as one of the disaster’s epicenters. A deadly combination of social inequality, racism and sexism, vicious state […]
Antonello Zecca: Covid-19 opens up a new political period in Italy
793 people died in Italy on Saturday from Covid-19, the highest number of deaths anywhere in the world on a single day. Antonello Zecca is an organizer with the Sinistra Anticapitalista (Anticapitalist Left) […]
