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Political Report # 1445 Leading by Example: Cuba in the Covid-19 Pandemic
| Leading by Example: Cuba in the Covid-19 Pandemic
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| The response of socialist Cuba to the global SARS-CoV2 pandemic has been outstanding both domestically and for its international contribution. That a small island nation, subjected to hundreds of years of colonialism and imperialism and, since the Revolution of 1959, six decades of the criminal United States blockade, can play such an exemplary role is due to Cuba’s socialist system. The central plan directs national resources according to a development strategy which prioritises human welfare and community participation, not private profit.
Cuban authorities reacted quickly to Chinese information about […] |
Quick Take on the corona virus pandameic from Dr. Alexandre Kalache
May 21, 2020
Quick Take Video – Dr. Alexandre Kalache – Corona Pandemic – 040320
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COVID-Related Strikes Hit Washington’s Apple Sheds
May 20, 2020 | Demands for safer working conditions and extra hourly hazard pay during the pandemic are powering a strike wave in the Yakima Valley.
By David Bacon, Originally published by Capital & Main
This week the COVID-related strike in Washington state’s Yakima Valley quadrupled in size, as workers walked out at three more apple packinghouses. More than a hundred stopped work on May 7 at Allan Brothers Fruit, a large apple growing, packing and shipping company in Naches, in Central Washington. On May 12 they were […]
Austeridad Republicana and Contradictions in Mexico’s Response to COVID-19
May 18, 2020 | By Andrew R. Smolski, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University and member of the Latin American Perspectives editorial collective. — May 18, 2020
On May 3rd, 2020, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) published “Algunas lecciones de la pandemia COVID-19”. In this brief document, the President of Mexico makes clear that neoliberal policies, such as privatization and austerity for public universities, have led to a crisis in public health exacerbated by the pandemic. AMLO has consistently pointed to four decades of neoliberalization as creating many of the ills Mexico confronts, from a […]