This speech was given by Evan Blake, Coordinator of the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The scandal lifts the lid on how the union bureaucracy as a whole lives—its corrupt appetites, its essentially parasitic and hostile relationship to the workers they claim to represent and their deep ties to management and the capitalist parties.
In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residents expressed anger over the shuttering of the hospitals by a Texas bankruptcy court.
The World Socialist Web Site is assisting healthcare workers in the building of a network of interconnected rank-and-file committees.
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The WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter fights to unite all healthcare workers with the entire working class to maintain safe working conditions, oppose hospital closures and layoffs, and defend the right to high quality health care.
This video describes the current surge of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, reviews the immense societal impacts of Long COVID and outlines a strategy of what must be done to end the pandemic. It has subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish and Italian.
Tens of thousands of healthcare workers and teachers have held nationwide strikes, but the development of a real fight against austerity requires a socialist perspective and a rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
Workers in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington state voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike last week, in anticipation of contract expiration on September 30.
Doctors were not just rejecting the rotten deal, but its tacit endorsement by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation.
The strike by 700 nurses and case workers in Grand Blanc, Michigan is entering its third week and the fate of the struggle is very much in danger as Teamsters union officials are doing nothing to stop Henry Ford Health from bringing in scabs and other hospital employees from crossing the picket lines every day.
In this video testimony, Catherine Pace’s family describes the working conditions which led to her death and the deaths of countless other autoworkers during the still-raging pandemic.
Ed, a retired auto worker, and Tammy, a retired care worker, have been “living with” COVID-19 for two years, and they’ve had enough.
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Travis exposes the lies and misinformation spread about COVID-19, in particular its impacts on children, and documents the steady erosion of data tracking over the past year and during the Omicron surge.
