COVID-19

Medical worker with Cuban flag
International News

The COVID-19 pandemic makes clear the need to cooperate despite political differences

April 22, 2020 fwstaff
Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement The impact of COVID-19 can already be measured and will be assessed in the future by the striking numbers of people infected, the unacceptable numbers of deaths, the unquestionable […]
Housing is a Human Right
Domestic News

Coronavirus: Workers and oppressed face monster wave of evictions and foreclosures

April 20, 2020 fwstaff
By Jerry Goldberg In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, housing activists have shown tremendous initiative in raising demands for moratoriums on eviction and rental payments during the emergency and in the months to come. […]
No Picture
Domestic News

Coronavirus: Capitalist chaos, workers resistance and the dictatorship of the proletariat

April 19, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On April 14, as the death count in the U.S. from the terrible coronavirus pandemic raced past 25,000, the New York Times published an article by Scott Paul, head of the American […]
World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Domestic News

Trump Administration Suspends Funding to WHO amid Global Pandemic

April 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After a series of verbal attacks against the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the United States administration of President Donald Trump has announced that funding […]
Doctor Gutierrez, part of the Altos de Lidice Communal Healthcare System, during a house-to-house visit
International News

How Does Venezuela Manage to Keep the Coronavirus Contagion Curve Flat?

April 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Marco Teruggi On Friday, March 13, Venezuela and Uruguay confirmed the first cases of coronavirus in their territories, finishing painting the Latin American map of the pandemic. After a month, the southern country of […]
Detroit healthcare workers protest health and safety dangers amid COVID-19
Domestic News

COVID-19 Prompts Austerity Budget in Detroit

April 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Detroit is one of the epicenters for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic where the city in southeast Michigan has the highest death rate from the infection in the United States. This […]
President Nicolas Maduro
International News

Venezuela faces Covid-19 threat amid U.S. aggression

April 16, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole While the nation of Venezuela mobilizes to fight the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the world, the United States government is doing everything in its power to overthrow the duly elected socialist government of […]
sample of the suspected contaminated face masks Saudi Arabia air dropped into Yemen’s Hodeidah province
International News

Saudis Air Drop Masks Suspected to be Contaminated with COVID-19 into Yemen

April 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Randi Nord Sana’a (GPA) – The Saudi coalition continues weaponizing disease in Yemen — this time capitalizing on the novel coronavirus — in a disturbing and barbaric fashion. Saudi planes have air dropped suspicious […]
Dr. Tedros Adhanom, WHO Director General meets with Chinese President Xi Jinpinge
International News

As COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the nation, U.S. blames China

April 15, 2020 fwstaff
By Mike Shane The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to kill 100,000 to 250,000 people or more in the U.S. As it sweeps across the country, exposing stark inequalities in many areas of social life, the deficiencies […]
World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Domestic News

Trump Administration Attacks on the WHO Highlights Imperialist Policy on COVID-19 Pandemic

April 12, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe United States President Donald Trump has launched a verbal attack against the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Director General Dr. Tedros Ahhanom Ghebreyesus. The WHO is an international agency affiliated with […]