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.
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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.
The resident doctors strike is a decisive battle—not just over wages, but for the future of the National Health Service. They are confronting the Starmer government, the political establishment, and the media on behalf of the millions they serve in their frontline NHS role.
A resident doctor in Leeds told WSWS reporters, “If the pillars of the NHS, the staff of the NHS, are not happy, are leaving, are burnt out, it’s only going to have a domino effect, and things are going to start to crumble.”
The shooting of a 19-year-old patient has caused great unrest among the nursing staff: What does it mean for both patients and nursing staff when police officers simply shoot in psychiatric wards?
Resident doctors are demanding a 29.2 percent increase to restore their pay to 2008 levels. Working up to 72-hours a week, many are burdened with massive student debt and see no future in the UK.
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.
