by Joseph Choonara This article appears in the new International Socialism Journal #166 It is tempting to see pandemics as unpredictable, cataclysmic incursi...

Nurse Elizabeth Lalasz on fighting COVID-19 in a broken healthcare system Elizabeth Lalasz is a Registered Nurse of 11 years working in Chicago’s largest pub...

by John Mullen This is an updated version of an article originally published on this blog The epidemic in France has already claimed 2 000 lives, and it is e...

by Jason Gold On the 17th of March Montenegro confirmed it’s first 2 cases of the Corona Virus. It was the last country in Europe to get Corona Virus, this w...

The aftermath of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). How will we know the pandemic is scientifically ‘over’? What if authoritarian governments extend it? by Hari Kum...

We face an unprecedented international health crisis. The Trump administration has made clear that they don’t care how many people die. The stimulus packages...

Serbia and beyond by Anja Ilić A new pandemic has struck the world, which was seemingly unaware of what had been coming. In a matter of weeks, what was light...

by Roberto Luzzi for the SI Cobas trade union, Italy By mid March Italy has become the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemics with a dreadful progression of de...

Hospital staff can pressure the government to solve supply problems and save lives. The rest of us can help. This article explains how by Jonathan Neale Hosp...

statement by over 30 LINKE MdBen (MPs) We welcome the fact that the Bundestag is reacting today to the impending dangers posed by the corona pandemic. Furthe...

With Coronavirus, a struggle is now engaged over the future: can this rotten system be ended?

The Bio-Economic Pandemic and the Western Working Classes - the Covid-19 Shock Meets an Impending Economic Recession by Ingar Solty This is an updated versio...

by John Lucas The country where we first saw the Covid19 epidemic take hold is now the country the world is looking to for hope of the aftermath. Much of the...

As biodiversity disappears, the risk to human health increases. Experts say we need to protect wild spaces and species to help prevent future outbreaks by Jo...

Workers can take collective action in response to the coronavirus outbreak - and save lives. by Jonathan Neale The world is changing very fast. We can act to...

by Rehad Desai If I were the President’s speech writer, this is what I would recommend he tells the nation, the region, the continent,and indeed the wider wo...

How can the left respond to the corona crisis? A plea for forceful opposition to the »crisis solution« of the ruling class The German government is respondin...

Some thoughts of a nursery worker after a stressful week by Kisty Pattison I work in a nursery in Berlin. The public opinion is ‘nurseries are closed’. They ...

A ten point action plan

The government has declared a state of alarm for a social goal, including socio-economic measures to protect workers. Other EU countries will soon need to ta...