Cuban Solidarity, Bernie Sanders, the Leaked Labour Report & more -- The Week in News and Opinion April 12 - 19

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  April 12 - 18.

This week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally. There are also a number of links related to Cuba's internationalism and global solidarity with the island nation, Bernie Sanders' capitulation to Biden and the leak of a report showing that right-wing Labour Party insiders actually worked to tank the party in the 2017 election campaign. 

The Featured Article link at the start is an excellent piece by Bob Buzzanco on the attempts by some lefties to try to shame those not getting on board with backing Biden.

We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.


Featured Post:

Older and Wiser, and Vote-Shaming

Liberals are a an offensive and feckless peculiar bunch.  They love liberty and freedom.  They believe in equality and personal space.  They believe that a woman should have the right to choose whether to have a child, and that gays should have the right to get married. So perhaps the right to vote, or not to vote, should be part of their ideology too.  In any event, stop the scolding and hectoring and vote-shaming, and go out and work to get your guy elected.  Or maybe better, get involved in movement politics instead of obsessing over electoralism and waiting for a hero to save you.


Otherwise, STFU have a good day.

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

- No time left. This social order must change! -- Statements from Turkey, Greece and Sweden

- Only socialism saves!

- A Socialist Cry for Civilisational Change: COVID-19 and the Failure of Neo-liberalism

- Could Covid-19 vanquish neoliberalism?

- Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

- I Want My Death to Make You Angry

- Baffled?? Me Too,Friend!

- THE CASE FOR RENT FORGIVENESS

- The Coronavirus Strike Wave Could Shift Power to Workers—for Good

- Liberal anti-Chinese propaganda helped create the far-right campaign to blame China for Covid-19

- Truth Tracker: There's no scientific proof that COVID-19 was made in a Chinese lab

- Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth?

- Solidarity Yes -- Blockade No! We Demand the Immediate Lifting of the Criminal US Blockade of Cuba

- Cuba is Willing to Send More Medical Brigades to the World

- Cuba shares what it has

- Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 Victims

- Cuba Is Developing a Vaccine to Activate the Immune System

- Cuban Doctors Arrive in Qatar to Fight COVID-19

- Caribbean Organizations Unite Against US Attacks, Support Caricom

- Vietnam ships 450,000 protective suits for U.S. health care workers

- Kerala is a model state in the Covid-19 fight

- Africa's COVID-19 Death Toll Hits 816, 15,249 Confirmed Cases

- COVID-19 Worsens Struggle of Migrant Workers in Gulf States

- Settler attacks rise by 78 percent amid pandemic

- Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem

- Open Letter to Condemn Trump Admin’s Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, High-Ranking Officials

- Venezuela Has the Lowest Contagion Rate in Latin America

- “War Operation”: Communist Party-run Maranhão State imports Chinese ventilators in secret, via Ethiopia

- Trump Accused of 'Actively and Knowingly' Spreading Coronavirus to Central America Through Deportations

- Colombia: Red Rags on Windows to Protest Amid Quarantine

- Virus hit 'like a bomb' as toll rises in Ecuador's business capital

- Brazil: Chloroquine Studies Suspended After 11 People Die

- Brazil, Ecuador Record Highest Death Tolls From COVID-19

- There’s No Reason to Turn Airtime Over to Trump’s Deceptive Coronavirus Campaign Rallies

- Trump suspends funding to WHO pending review over handling of coronavirus

- Unions back U.S. Postal Service’s $75B pandemic appeal, oppose right-wing privatization plans

- Three New York City transit workers dying every day of coronavirus

- Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns

- US for-profit healthcare sector cuts thousands of jobs as pandemic rages

- The U.S. Opposes the IMF to Create Liquidity to Help Countries

- Coronavirus Outbreak at Virginia Nursing Home Spirals Out of Control as 45 Die

- ‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes

- Chicago coronavirus outbreak infects dozens of migrant children in U.S. custody

- “BURIALS ARE CHEAPER THAN DEPORTATIONS”: VIRUS UNLEASHES TERROR IN A TROUBLED ICE DETENTION CENTER

- Congress Should Immediately Pass Legislation Protecting Workers' Safety During the Coronavirus Pandemic

- 'Heartbreaking Statistic': Thanks to Pandemic, Last Month Was First March Since 2002 Without a US School Shooting

- Next Coronavirus Relief Package Must Include Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs, 830+ Justice Groups Say

- Death penalty states urged to release stockpiled drugs for Covid-19 patients

- Great, the Anti-Vaxxer Coronavirus Protests Are Here

- Labour leaders say they’ll push to permanently improve pay, working conditions for essential workers (Canada)

- The hypocrisy of our leaders around social distancing is reckless (Canada)

- Union says 35 TTC bus operators walked off job due to lack of PPE (Toronto)

- Quebec reopens mines despite the concerns of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

- Years of government austerity to blame for 31 deaths at seniors' residence, Quebec's largest union says

- Kelowna golf courses reopen with new protocols but health officials say it's not a great idea

- Ontario’s lack of diversity data for COVID-19 is an embarrassment

- Ontario needs to spend at least $58 million more a month to fix long-term care staffing crisis: CCPA

- Ontario to stop caregivers from working at multiple long-term care homes as COVID-19 spreads like 'wildfire'

- Ontario scaled back comprehensive, annual inspections of nursing homes to only a handful last year

- Ontario rejects call to take over operations at long-term care homes where 54 residents have died

Bolivia:

- Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination

- Evo Morales: Police Put Cochabamba Population's Health at Risk

Brazil:

- Brazil: Indigenous Peoples Go to Court Against Missionaries

- Indigenous People In Brazilian Amazon Face Covid-19 and Loggers

- BRAZIL’S JAIR BOLSONARO, THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL CORONAVIRUS DENIER, JUST FIRED THE HEALTH MINISTER WHO DISAGREED WITH HIM

- Bolsonaro Closes Brazil's Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela

Canada:

- The Business Wage Subsidy: Trickle-Down Economics on Steroids

- Federal Government Won’t Disclose Details of New Contract With Amazon to Manage Canada’s COVID-19 Supplies

- We have the oil lobby’s secret list of COVID demands – if approved, they would set environmental protection back decades

- 11 things you need to know as Trudeau announces $1.7 billion to clean up ‘festering’ orphan and inactive wells

- Dimitri Lascaris wants the Green Party to be the champion of Canada’s left

- ‘A dangerous road’: Coastal GasLink pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou habitat in B.C. interior

- Alberta Government Turns Hard to the Right

- Manitoba seeks to claw back or cancel funding for 'non-essential' service providers during COVID-19 pandemic

- 'Let her soul rise': Supporters pay tribute to Eishia Hudson, 16, shot and killed by Winnipeg police

- Over 300 health-care workers sign open letter demanding more shelter for Toronto's homeless

- Some Landlords Found a Loophole in Doug Ford’s ‘Eviction Ban’. They’re Still Threatening Renters with Eviction.

- Ontario's Front-Line Workers Call For Paid Sick Days

- Governments that borrowed interest-free from Bank of Canada now incur massive debts borrowing from private banks

Climate Emergency:

- Second wave of locusts in east Africa said to be 20 times worse

- Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain

- 2020 expected to be Earth's warmest year on record, scientists say

- Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner

Europe:

- Workers in France Take Over McDonald’s to Distribute Food

- Greece’s Communist Party: We Join Our Voice with Those of Supermarket Employees

- Communist youth in Italy launch campaign to guarantee student rights

Facebook:

- Facebook arbitrarily limits The Left Chapter with no explanation or appeal

Ideas:

- Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future

Israel / Palestine:

- Netanyahu's Son Says He 'Hopes' Leftists Will Die of Coronavirus Following Protest

Latin America:

- Colombia: Not Even the Pandemic Halts Killing of Social Leaders

- Guatemala: Social Organizations Denounce Massive Layoffs

- Cuba: Institutions Work Together to Protect the Elderly

Mexico:

- ‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico

United Kingdom:

- Socialists call for transparency over anti-semitism investigation that risks being 'suppressed'

- ‘It’s going to be a long night’ – How Members of Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose

- ‘The Leaked Labour Report Is Shameful – It’s Time for an Urgent Investigation’

- Labour’s explosive report shows how right-wing officials sabotaged the party

- Labour's leaked report: we can't let them get away with it

- Labour leaks have cost the party dearly – but its dismissal of anti-black racism means it’s about to lose a lot more

- McCluskey slams ‘rancid and very cruel’ behaviour exposed in Labour's leaked report

United States:

- Bernie go Bye Bye -- Hellworld #8

- The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death

- The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left

- Bernie’s Political Funeral 

- Not Me, Biden

- ‘THAT MAN CAN’T BREATHE’

- US judge cancels permit for Keystone XL pipeline from Canada

- These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America

- With working Americans' survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest

- 'A Complete Abomination': Mega-Rich Hedge Funds Swoop Down to Grab Covid-19 Small Business Relief Funds

- Millionaires to reap 80% of benefit from tax change in US coronavirus stimulus

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis, Sanctions and Workers' Rights -- The Week in News and Opinion March 22 - 29

Cuban medical team arrives in Italy, March 22

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  March 22 - 29.

Unsurprisingly this week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally as well as issues like the continuing criminal American imperialist sanctions against many nations in spite of it. The Featured Article link at the start is a powerful denunciation of them. We have tried to arrange this coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.

Featured Article:

A Pandemic Is No Time for US Economic Sanctions

"US economic sanctions have caused millions of people to suffer, and soon they could kill tens of thousands, if not far more. Exacerbating civilians’ suffering to try to change their government’s conduct is ethically wrong and prohibited by international law. Pursuing this strategy during the worst health crisis the world has faced in modern times demonstrates reckless disregard for human life and contempt for the norms of civilized behavior."

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis

- Not on the Backs of Workers! -- The Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis News on The Left Chapter

- The centre did not hold

- Canadians need to demand an immediate end to criminal imperialist sanctions

- Russia Calls to Lift 'Genocidal' Sanctions Against Venezuela

- Solidarity or Disaster

- Exile -- Hellworld #7 (Podcast)

- EVERYONE'S A SOCIALIST IN A CRISIS

- The right are worrying themselves into helping the left cause

- For panicking capitalists, resuming profit flow trumps everything

- Our Leaders are Terrified. Not of the Virus – of Us

- 57 Communist and Workers' parties demand "Immediate measures to protect the health and rights of the peoples"

- For a People’s Recovery, NOT A Corporate Plunder!

- Watch out for this symptom of Corona virus: lazy ecofascism

- THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HAS BROUGHT OUT SOCIETY’S ALARMING DISREGARD FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

- COVID-19: Fears of Domestic Violence Rise as Millions Confined

Second group of Cuban doctors arrived in Belize to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic March 27:

- Lula: The Cuban people show the world an example of solidarity

- Cuba: FM Denounces US Defamation of Cuban Medical Collaboration

- Cuba to Send Doctors to Four Caribbean Countries and Argentina

- CUBA USES 'WONDER DRUG' TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS AROUND WORLD DESPITE U.S. SANCTIONS

- Expert: Cuban Health System's Strength Against COVID-19

The moment a delegation of 37 Cuban doctors and 15 nurses arrived in Italy to help battle the coronavirus outbreak and provide expertise and relief to the country's overburdened healthcare system:

- Coronavirus Drives Calls for a General Strike and #NotDying4WallStreet

- It's morally repulsive how corporations are exploiting this crisis. Workers will suffer

- Trump and Wall Street Want to Send Us Back to Work. They Don’t Care If We Die of Coronavirus.

- The coronavirus outbreak is exposing the devastating gaps between the rich and poor at a moment when America is primed for class warfare

- Fauci warns U.S. could see some 100,000 deaths

- Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right

- Trump Dismissed Intel, Warned in January of COVID-19 Threat

-  Trump's narcissism has taken a new twist. And now he has American blood on his hands

- Trump Rejects New York’s Plea For Ventilators: ‘I Don’t Believe You Need’ That Many

- States Quietly Pass Laws Criminalizing Fossil Fuel Protests Amid Coronavirus Chaos

- The Fed’s Response to COVID-19 Is Impressive — and Alarming

- Harvard, Boasting $40 Billion Endowment, Lays Off Dining Hall Workers Due to Coronavirus

- 'Some may even die, I don't know': Former Wells Fargo CEO wants people to go back to work and 'see what happens'

- Coronavirus: Hobby Lobby billionaire keeps stores open after ‘God spoke to him’ – but won’t pay sick leave

- Murdoch family took serious precautions against coronavirus as Fox News downplayed risk to public

- 'Looting of America by Big Corporations': Progressives Appalled as Senate Unanimously Passes Largest Bailout Bill in US History

- Coronavirus: Teenage boy whose death was linked to COVID-19 turned away from urgent care for not having insurance

- Millions of Americans are about to lose their health insurance in a pandemic

- US Gov't Grants Firm Exclusive Status on Promising COVID-19 Drug

- Grocery Stores Are the Coronavirus Tipping Point

- Putting Profits Before Workers’ Safety: Inside Amazon During the COVID-19 Crisis

- Delivery drivers face pandemic without sick pay, insurance, sanitizer

- Nurse dies in New York hospital where workers are reduced to using trash bags as protective medical gear

- Two Georgia Medical Workers Die of COVID-19 Amid Critical Shortage of Protective Gear

- A flight attendant dies, and colleagues are 'very much on edge'

- ‘We’re Fucked’: Aircraft Carrier Outbreak Sends Troops Scrambling

- Memphis Teamsters Wildcat Strike at Kroger’s Crucial Southern Warehouse

- US Urged to Release Detainees at ICE Centers as Virus Spreads

- ‘IS MY LIFE NOT AS VALUABLE AS YOURS?’ IMMIGRATION JUDGES WANT ALL COURTS SHUT DOWN AS CORONAVIRUS CASES SOAR

- Because 'Anne Frank Did Not Die in a Gas Chamber,' Jewish Activists Cite Disease in Nazi Death Camps in Call to Free Detained Immigrants

- 'I won't survive': Iranian scientist in US detention says Ice will let Covid-19 kill many

- CORONAVIRUS HAS COME TO RIKERS, AND THE PEOPLE INSIDE ARE FIGHTING TO SURVIVE

- Federal Judge Bans Bolsonaro's 'Brazil Cannot Stop' Campaign

- Bolsonaro's anti-science response to coronavirus appalls Brazil's governors

- Jair Bolsonaro claims Brazilians 'never catch anything' as Covid-19 cases rise

- Democracy in Brazil Would Not Be Normal, Bolsonaro Threatens

- Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety

- Pompeo pressed G-7 leaders to refer to 'Wuhan virus' in statement: report

- People’s War against coronavirus: Why Washington fears China’s example

- China Gradually Back to Normal After the COVID-19 Pandemic

- China donates medical supplies to Canada amid coronavirus pandemic, Embassy says

- What the West Can Learn From Vietnam’s Response to Covid-19

- Philippines: Duterte responds to COVID-19 with authoritarianism, corruption and neglect

- Portugal to treat migrants as residents during coronavirus crisis

- Italy Calls General Strike: “Our Lives Are Worth More Than Your Profits”

- France to Withdraw Forces From Iraq Due to COVID-19

- Spanish Communist Party praises Chinese solidarity while condemning cruel American sanctions

- Lack of testing raises fears of coronavirus surge in eastern Europe

- Ecuadorian-Colombian Indigenous Alone Against COVID-19

- Chile: Govt Allows Employers Not to Pay Wages During Quarantine

- Chile: Piñera's Gov't Asks Homeless People to 'Stay Home'

- Colombian death squads exploiting coronavirus lockdown to kill activists

- Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You

- Venezuela Suspends Rent Payments, Protects Wages as Coronavirus Cases Rise to 77

- Venezuela: US Blocks Flights to Repatriate Citizens Amid COVID-19

- Venezuela Dismisses US Justice Department ‘Narco-terrorism’ Accusations

- President Maduro: Thousands of Test Kits will Arrive from China for a Massive Campaign of Coronavirus Screening this Weekend

- Venezuela: Already Arrived – 130 Cuban Doctors to Fight Coronavirus – Medical Supplies From Russia on Their Way

- EU Supports Iran, Venezuela Bids for IMF COVID-19 Funds

- Venezuelan Army Categorically Rejects US Attacks on President Maduro and Other Venezuelan Officials

- Rogue General Admits Plot Against Venezuela From Colombia

- RN says Co-op Refinery scab camp “a disaster waiting to happen”

- Pipeline workers putting locals at risk of COVID-19 infection: Unist’ot’en

- UBCIC, Fort St. John city councillors call for shutdown of Site C project during COVID-19

- BC’s Work Camps Stay Open Despite Pandemic Risks

- B.C. mine workers fear Teck not taking adequate precautions against coronavirus

- Delivering during COVID-19: Canada Post’s shocking working conditions

- Video game sales are up while testers work in dangerous conditions

- Tim Hortons’ Parent Company Dismisses Calls From Shareholders For Stronger Health and Safety Policies

- We face a public health emergency, and criminalizing the marginalized can worsen the crisis

- Canada’s big banks set to profit off of COVID-19 mortgage deferrals

- BILL C-13: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE FOR WORKING PEOPLE (Canada)

- Two million Canadians could soon be out of work — and women and low-wage workers will be hit the hardest

- CLASS DANGERS IN PUBLIC EMERGENCIES

- Report: Nearly half of Canadian working renters a month or less away from not being able to pay bills -- Urgent relief for workers needed

- Cancel Rent! Housing for people, not for profit

- Federal pandemic funds for First Nations woefully inadequate

- Manitoba chiefs organization wants Cuban doctor aid on COVID-19

- KENNEY AND COVID-19: ALBERTA’S DOUBLE WHAMMY

- Barrel of Monkeys now worth more than a barrel of Alberta oil

- Canada Should Nationalize Oil Companies, Not Bail Them Out

- HEALTH CUTS AND PRIVATIZATION TO BLAME FOR ONTARIO’S VULNERABILITY

- In Ontario, construction is an essential service, but some workers fear COVID-19 puts them at risk

- Unions oppose Ontario’s decision to keep construction sites operating as essential services

- “We are dropping like flies,” says Ontario home care nurse

- Ontario Used Emergency Powers to Contract Out Unionized Hospital Jobs. Experts Say It Will Compromise Care.

- People all over Toronto say they're not going to pay rent on April 1

- After Years of Hoarding Housing Supply, Toronto Airbnb Hosts Are Panicking

- 44% of Canadian households report lost work amid COVID-19 pandemic: poll

- Montreal declares local state of emergency over fears of COVID-19 outbreak among city's homeless

- 'Not one dollar, not one bar of soap, not one pair of hands': Advocates for homeless grow desperate

- ‘I’m Really Scared’ Scenes from the Downtown Eastside in a time of pandemic.

- Palestine Demands Israel Release Prisoners Amid Virus Outbreak

- Israeli Forces Demolish Emergency Coronavirus Clinic for Palestinians

- During the Coronavirus crisis, Israel confiscates tents designated for clinic in the Northern West Bank

Canada:

- Peter MacKay Had Not One, But Two Train Wreck Interviews on Live Television Last Night

- Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear Toronto’s appeal of cuts to city council

- Unifor shocked by Co-op rejection of independent mediator’s recommendations

- Siding with First Nation, N.S. judge overturns Alton Gas approval

- Alberta health minister accused of berating Calgary physician, 'intimidating' citizens

Israel / Palestine:

- Benny Gantz elected Israeli speaker, signalling deal with Netanyahu

- Israel Controls 95 Percent of Occupied Jordan Valley: Official

United States:

- TIME’S UP SAID IT COULD NOT FUND A #METOO ALLEGATION AGAINST JOE BIDEN, CITING ITS NONPROFIT STATUS AND HIS PRESIDENTIAL RUN

- A sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden has ignited a firestorm of controversy

- Joe Biden Accused of Sexual Assault, But the Media is Silent

- 'Huge Victory' for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court Rules DAPL Permits Violated Law

- Colorado Abolishes Death Penalty and Commutes Sentences of Death Row Inmates

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis and the Worker Fightback -- The Week in News and Opinion March 15 - 22

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  March 15 - 22.

Unsurprisingly this week's edition begins with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and the fightback against attempts to confront it on the backs of workers.  We have tried to arrange this coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many areas of concern such as housing, worker's rights, left party demands, the heroic internationalism of socialist Cuba, and many other topics. The Featured Article link at the start is a powerful "Letter from a Retail Worker".

Featured Article:

Letter from a Retail Worker: Gratitude is nice, but dignity and safety start with a strong union

"Things can really only get worse from here for retail workers—if we let it. We are underpaid, micromanaged, and disdained. And when this crisis is over, that won’t change unless we change it ourselves. That has to start with a strong union. Make a fresh one or join one of the better existing ones (no minimum wage, tiered contract bullshit—I’m looking at you, UFCW). We want to support ourselves and our families, we want job security, we want a say in how health and safety policies that literally affect our livelihoods are decided. We want everyone to have their groceries and coffee, but we don’t want to die or kill our immunocompromised or elderly family members doing it. If companies—and capitalist society as a whole—didn’t by nature prioritize profits over us, we wouldn’t have to make that choice."


Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis and the Worker Fightback:

- Panic buying and hoarding are a function of capitalism

- Message to the government: your friends, the super-rich, are the hoarders

- Coronavirus has revealed left wing ideas are nothing more than plain common sense

- "Socialism is imperative for our health!" -- International workers' parties call for socialist solutions to the capitalist coronavirus crisis

- Covid-19 hastens the deepening structural crisis of the capitalist system

- "It is only through our resistance and struggle that we can defend our rights." - WFTU coronavirus statement

- Our politics isn’t designed to protect the public from Covid-19

- Look after people not profit in the COVID-19 crisis

- Lessons from the Spanish flu of 1919: internationalism and people before profit

- EMERGENCY ACTION REQUIRED NOW TO STOP COVID-19 AND DEEP RECESSION

- While Some Wait For COVID-19 Tests, The Wealthy Cut The Line

- Cuba Sends 144 Health Workers to Combat the Covid-19 in Jamaica

- Cuba Sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Fight Covid-19 in Italy

- Amid coronavirus pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil begs for Cuban doctors – after expelling them

- What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world — and how Cuba came out on top

- Update: British Cruise Ship With COVID-19 Cases to Dock in Cuba

- Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B, Successful in Treating COVID-19

- BioCubaFarma Guarantees Production of Drugs for COVID-19

- Chile’s Communist Mayor to Import Cuban Meds to Fight COVID-19




- Bolivia: Coup-Born Regime Rejects Medical Cooperation From Cuba

- The UK Only Realised "In The Last Few Days" That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would "Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths"

- 'A generation has died': Italian province struggles to bury its coronavirus dead

- Grim milestone: Italy's coronavirus deaths surpass China's

- Why Italy was hit so hard and so fast by COVID-19

- Australian doctors condemn government response to COVID-19 “disaster”

- Coronavirus: Socialists Call for Urgent Bonus to Health, Welfare Workers (Hungary)

- Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid

- ‘Terrified’ Package Delivery Employees Are Going to Work Sick (USA)

- Workers Shut Down Mercedes Factory That Called Them In During Coronavirus (Spain)

- Employees in Toronto are being told to work in the face of COVID-19 and they’re angry and scared

- Air Canada failing to inform us of true exposure to Covid-19, employees claim

- Ontario Bill 186 "falls far short" Dias says as Unifor continues to call for 14 point plan for workers

- ‘Blood on their hands:’ Teachers say de Blasio and Carranza helped spread coronavirus

- New York now the center of the US coronavirus crisis – can it cope?

- We’re Struggling With the Coronavirus in Spain—but We’re Vastly More Prepared Than the US

- Spain has nationalized all of its private hospitals as the country goes into coronavirus lockdown

- America has no real public health system – coronavirus has a clear run

- Total Cost of Her COVID-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 (United States)

- Here Are the 51 Republican Senators Who Just Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to All Workers

- Trump inaccurately claims malaria drug has been ‘approved’ for coronavirus treatment, prompting FDA correction

- Coronavirus – anti-China propaganda brings catastrophe to the West

- White House Pushes U.S. Officials to Criticize China For Coronavirus ‘Cover-Up’

- Photo of Trump remarks shows 'corona' crossed out and replaced with 'Chinese' virus

- Bolsonaro’s son enrages Beijing by blaming China for coronavirus crisis

- Coronavirus and anti-racism: no scapegoating, no excuses

- COVID-19: Korean consulate issues warning after violent attack in Montreal

- Asian Canadian Woman Wearing Face Mask Kicked Out of Toronto Supermarket

- Don't Demonize China! A Report from Chongqing

- China would answer calls for assistance – even when the past isn't pleasant

- Why are we surprised the BC NDP is forcing thousands back to work in unsafe man camps for Big Oil?

- Work Camp in Alberta’s Oil Field Issues Notice That Workers May Have Been Exposed to COVID-19

- Game Over for Kenney

- The Other Emergency Is Crashing Oil Prices

- Ottawa prepares multibillion-dollar bailout of oil and gas sector

- NYC local buses a free ride for all during coronavirus outbreak

- Cities across Canada implement free transit to curb COVID-19

- Detroit Bus Drivers Win Protections Against Virus Through Strike

- 'Literally Weaponizing Coronavirus': Despite One of World's Worst Outbreaks of Deadly Virus, US Hits Iran With 'Brutal' New Sanctions

- US accused of making Iran's coronavirus crisis worse after issuing new sanctions

- 'In This Dark Hour for the Iranian People,' Groups Demand Trump End Inhumane Sanctions Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

- US Should Lift Economic Sanctions to Avoid More Deaths From Pandemic

- Cuba faces squeeze on food production as US oil sanctions bite

- IMF Rejects Venezuela's Request for $5B in Virus Aid

- U.S. prevents Venezuela from buying drugs to treat COVID-19

- China Releases Full Report on US Human Rights 2019 Record – Criticizes US Sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

- Israel stops providing cleaning products to Palestine detainees

- Gaza confirms first coronavirus cases as West Bank shuts down

- A coronavirus coup in broad daylight (Israel)

- Guatemala Suspends All US Deportation Flights Over COVID-19

- NYSE boss sold his own stock ahead of coronavirus market meltdown

- Four senators sold stocks before coronavirus threat crashed market

- Senator Richard Burr Sold a Fortune in Stocks as G.O.P. Played Down Coronavirus Threat

- Labour demands government suspends rents to stop evictions during coronavirus pandemic (UK)

- Ontario puts brakes on new eviction orders, postpones ones in the works because of COVID-19

- Here's how Toronto renters feel about the new mortgage deferrals in Canada

- Coronavirus: Calls to suspend rent in Toronto get louder

- TORONTO: KEEP YOUR RENT (April 1)

- B.C. union calls for suspension of mortgage and rent payments until COVID-19 crisis ends

- Impact of COVID-19 on Vancouver's DTES could be catastrophic

- If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed

- Canada to turn back asylum seekers, close border at midnight to stop spread of COVID-19

- Community Services abandons most vulnerable in time of crisis (Nova Scotia)

- COVID-19: Quebec teachers in shock after government suspends collective agreements

- Emergency action is necessary to end the health and economic crises in Ontario

- Ontario could run out of ICU beds, ventilators in 37 days even if COVID-19 rates cut in half: study

- Chickens coming home to roost in austerity Ontario

- Frustrated Canadians looking for mortgage deferrals from big banks facing delays, denials

- AFB2020 as COVID-19 policy response: A plan to protect workers and the public from an unprecedented crisis

Bolivia:

- Bolivia: Electoral Tribunal Suspends Elections Due to COVID-19

- Bolivia: MAS Presents Legal Resource in Support of Evo Morales

- Morales pick leads in Bolivia opinion polls

Brazil:

- Rise in 'forced disappearance' preys on Brazil's young men of colour

Canada:

- January manufacturing sales show Canadian factories were slowing even before COVID-19 hit

- Alberta to sell native grassland despite promises no Crown land would be sold

- Tribunal orders Canada to compensate parents who lost children in care

- Despite Foodora ruling, app-based workers face uphill union battle

India:

- Delhi's Muslims despair of justice after police implicated in riots

Israel / Palestine:

- Bibi Boi -- Hellworld #6

- Maiming Palestinians for Sport is a War Crime

United States:

- Furious at Probe Into US War Crimes Pompeo Threatens ICC Staff

- Sanders Gets Swallowed by the DNC Machine: It’s Time to #DemExit