Hostile Takeover: Wall Street Assumes Command of Joe Biden Transition Team
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Wall Street and the biggest U.S.
banks, after spending a fortune to unseat
President Trump, are getting key spots in Democrat Joe Biden’s transition team
that he has devised before the presidential election is certified.
Many of the big banks with links to Biden transition team
members were major donors to the former
vice president.
JOE BIDEN SAYS MUCK PROGRESSIVES, I MADE MY DIRTY MONEY SERVING WALL STREET!
“Hauser also didn’t like the prevalence of Big Law talent on the
Department of Justice team, which signaled to him that the Biden administration
could go soft on corporate malefactors.”
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“Joe Biden’s transition is absolutely stacked with tech industry
players,” noted Protocol, an online publication
that covers technology.”
“He was presumably referring to the two dozen agency review team
officials who come from law firms like Arnold & Porter. Or to the 40
or so members of the Biden transition who are current or recent lobbyists.”
“During the summer, the American Prospect published a lengthy exposé about Biden’s foreign policy advisers’ lucrative foray into corporate America. Many are set to return to the highest echelons of official Washington.”
BIDEN PARTNERS WITH MEXICO TO ORCHESTRATE ANOTHER MASSIVE MEX
INVASION OF DEM VOTING ILLEGALS.
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"Mexican president candidate Andrés
Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States,
declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican)
invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must
leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United
States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has
previously proposed granting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now
Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling
class,” Carlson added."
"Many Americans forget is that our country is located against a socialist failed state that is promising to descend even further into chaos – not California, the other one. And the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of the hole they have dug for themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a new leftist presidente who wants to surrender to the cartels and who thinks that Mexicans have some sort of “human right” to sneak into the U.S. and demographically reconquer it." KURT SCHLICHTER
Thanksgiving in America: Massive food lines and evictions as benefits expire
As this week’s Thanksgiving holiday approaches, a social catastrophe is unfolding across America on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
As of Sunday, there were more than 12.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US and nearly 257,000 deaths. The past week has seen an average of more than 170,000 cases per day, an increase of 59 percent from the average two weeks earlier.
Hospitals are being overrun by the surge of cases. Thousands of nurses at hospitals across the country are coming down with the virus, leaving hospitals short-staffed and placing patient care in extreme danger. In El Paso, Texas, a unit of 36 National Guard troops has been mobilized to work through a backlog of close to 240 bodies, victims of COVID-19, at the county morgue. The bodies will be loaded onto refrigerated trucks.
The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism website, reports that as of November 17 at least 197,659 inmates in state and local prisons had contracted the virus and 1,454 had died, a likely undercount due to poor reporting.
As the rise of hospitalizations continues unabated, working-class families across the country are facing a crisis of hunger and poverty alongside the sickness and death from the pandemic. Tens of millions of workers have lost their jobs or been hit by cuts in pay or work hours.
Food lines that already stretch for miles, evictions and foreclosures, and the loss of health benefits are set to increase exponentially when what remains of government assistance runs out immediately after Christmas.
The hunger relief organization Feeding America warns that some 54 million US residents, or one in six, currently face food insecurity. Many families with children were already facing hunger before the pandemic hit.
In Arlington, Texas, 6,000 families arrived for a distribution of frozen turkeys outside a sports stadium on Friday. On November 14, people in Dallas waited up to 12 hours to receive a turkey, 20 pounds of nonperishables, 15 pounds of fresh produce and bags of bread. Photos of the lineup at the food bank showed thousands of cars backed up across four lanes, spanning several miles.
On Saturday in Los Angeles, some 1,000 people lined up on foot for a food distribution at a church.
The moratorium on evictions imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expires on December 31. Since the order does not cancel or freeze rents, all back rent will come due January 1. An estimated 11 to 13 million renter households are at risk of eviction, according to investment bank and global advisory firm Stout.
As no actual relief dollars have been provided by the government to help families with their rent, landlords have used unscrupulous tactics to illegally evict tenants. They have allowed conditions in rental units to deteriorate, leaving renters a choice between leaving or living with mold or infestations of bed bugs, roaches and maggots. Families forced out of their apartments face living on the streets, doubling up with relatives or friends or sleeping in shelters—all of which increase the danger of contracting COVID-19.
Many families struggling with paying for food and housing face the cutoff of remaining COVID-19 relief funds by the end of the year. Long gone is the $600 federal benefit to boost weekly unemployment benefits. According to the Century Foundation, 12 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits on December 26 when two major pandemic programs expire. Another 4.4 million will have already exhausted these benefits before they expire.
The two programs set to lapse are the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provides benefits to self-employed individuals not eligible for traditional state programs, and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program, which extends an extra 13 weeks of benefits to people who exhaust state benefits. Both were established by Congress as part of the CARES Act, which doled out trillions of dollars to corporations and banks.
President Donald Trump makes no secret of his contempt for the US and world population facing death and impoverishment. Focused entirely on his plot to nullify the election and establish a presidential dictatorship, he says nothing about the rising toll of sickness and death or the inability of millions of families to pay the rent and put food on the table. On Saturday, he skipped a discussion on the pandemic at the G20 summit in order to play a round of golf at his Virginia resort.
A week ago, Trump made his first public statement in days to reiterate his opposition to a lockdown of the economy to contain the pandemic and save lives. Days later, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden gave a press conference and declared that a Biden administration would never impose a national lockdown. This followed the call by Michael Osterholm, a member of his own coronavirus advisory board, for a six-week nationwide lockdown and full pay for affected workers.
Both parties have conspired to block any congressional action to provide a new round of jobless benefits and other relief measures for workers and small businesses following the July 31 expiration of the minimal benefits provided under the CARES Act.
The public health disaster and the social crisis are two sides of a human catastrophe that is the result of deliberate policies carried out by the Trump administration and, in all essentials, backed by the Democrats. The bipartisan response to the pandemic is driven not by the goal of saving lives, but by the economic interests of the ruling corporate-financial oligarchy. The sole concern is to protect the wealth of the billionaires through government handouts and free money from the Federal Reserve, ensuring a record rise on the stock market.
The antisocial interests of the financial elite are the main obstacle to any effective measures to contain the pandemic and save lives. Nothing is permitted that infringes on the self-enrichment of moguls such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who has doubled his personal fortune to $200 billion in the course of the pandemic.
And to pay for the bailout and explosion of corporate and government debt, workers are being forced into factories and workplaces that are rife with the virus so as to continue the flow of corporate profit. This is the dirty secret behind the back-to-work and back-to-school drive, the centerpiece of the deadly policy of “herd immunity” openly pursued by Trump and tacitly supported by Biden and the Democrats.
Workers are deliberately being driven to the edge of destitution and homelessness in order to force them back into the factories, workplaces and schools.
The corporatist trade unions are fully supporting the back-to-work and back-to-school drive, while covering up virus outbreaks in the factories and schools and policing the workplaces to block opposition by workers.
There is growing anger in the factories and among teachers. Many are following the lead of the Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site and forming rank-and-file safety committees independent of the unions and the Democratic Party to coordinate action in defense of workers’ health and lives.
Only the independent intervention of the working class in opposition to both capitalist parties and the profit system they defend can produce a progressive and humane solution to both the pandemic and the social crisis.
The struggle to save lives and livelihoods is a struggle against the capitalist system. It requires the expropriation of the corporate oligarchy and utilization of its vast wealth to shut down all nonessential production until the pandemic is contained, provide full wages and income protection for laid-off workers, ensure safe working conditions for essential workers and marshal the resources needed to rebuild the health care system and provide free health care for all.
Iowa hospitals overwhelmed, Wisconsin health care system on brink of collapse amid exponential rise in COVID-19 cases
Iowa officials reported on Sunday that the number of deaths from COVID-19 rose to more than 200 for the first time during any seven-day period of the pandemic. In the first weeks of November, Iowa recorded more than 30,000 cases of COVID-19. The state has just over 3 million residents.
Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has remained a holdout against even the mildest form of disease mitigation, like a statewide mask mandate, in the service of big agribusiness including the meatpacking companies.
The state has been accused of obscuring the real scope of the outbreak in its effort to keep workers on the job and try to limit social opposition. The Iowa Gazettereports the state is using a formula that includes numbers not available to the public, producing positivity rates lower than what can be calculated with public data. KCRG reports the state government is barring local public health departments from releasing information on hospital capacity.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Iowa have shot up from under 500 in mid-October to about 1,400 late last week, mid-November. Hospitals in rural Iowa have been overwhelmed with patients and staff are suffering burnout. Iowa nurse Whitney Neville told The Atlantic, “It was doable over the summer but now it’s just too much. Last Monday we had 25 patients waiting in the emergency department. They had been admitted but there was no one to take care of them.”
The state reported on Friday that 77 percent of those incarcerated in the Anamosa State Penitentiary have tested positive since March, many having recovered, and 124 prison staff have been infected.
Iowa ranks fourth in the nation for prison infections. Family members of those incarcerated at the Anamosa told Iowa Public Radio that they fear speaking out publicly will result in their loved ones being retaliated against. More than 3,400 prisoners and staff have been infected and 8 prisoners and 1 staffer have died throughout the state’s prison system.
The official response to the outbreak in Anamosa prison is to keep the facility on lockdown 23 hours a day, moving the few prisoners who tested negative out of the facility, transforming the entire prison into a sick ward.
Anamosa was surpassed by North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City for the worst outbreak, with 90 percent of inmates testing positive for the disease.
Last week, the state of Wisconsin marked its deadliest week of the pandemic. From Nov. 14–20, deaths from COVID-19 averaged 54 per day, a 17 percent increase from the prior week. The state surpassed 350,000 cumulative cases as of Saturday and 3,000 cumulative deaths.
Three of the state’s highest daily death tolls were recorded last week: Nov. 17 saw the highest with 92 deaths, a record for the state, followed by 83 deaths Nov. 19 and 78 deaths on Nov. 20. In the state there have been 1,000 deaths in November alone. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicted deaths from COVID-19 in Wisconsin will reach 4,000 by the first week of December, 5,000 by the year’s end, and 8,000 by March 1, 2021. Like Illinois to the south, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the state.
Case positivity rates in the state for first-time positive tests have hovered around 30 percent and remain astonishingly high despite declining slightly from the prior week. Some news outlets predict that the state may have reached its peak in the last week, yet with the lack of any real lockdowns or other public health measures to contain the spread of the virus, positive cases could very well follow the predictions for the rest of the US in surpassing their previous high rate in the weeks following the Thanksgiving holiday.
Some state health officials had made worst-case scenario preparations before cases began rising exponentially in Wisconsin, only to see these efforts prove to be too little in the face of the current situation. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr. Ben Weston, the director of medical services for the Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management, said, “Wisconsin is in a tough place right now… Despite much talk, we are not turning the corner, nor are we flattening the curve. In fact, our curve is steepening with no end in sight.”
Wisconsin Democratic Governor Tony Evers passed Executive Order 95 and Emergency Order 1 on Friday. These orders declare a public health emergency in the state and implement a statewide mask mandate. Both expire after 60 days and details as to how they will be enforced were not given. In announcing the new measures, Evers explicitly noted that hospitals and medical staff in the state are overwhelmed.
Under the orders, anyone over the age of five years old in an enclosed space that is not their own residence should wear a face covering and continue to maintain six feet of distance from others. There are no directives to close non-essential businesses or schools under the order, nor are there any size limits or bans placed on gatherings to mitigate the spread.
Evers’ declaration came after the Wisconsin Hospital Association wrote a letter to him and other state legislators on Thursday, calling for immediate action to help curb the pandemic. The letter warned that the outbreak will soon qualify as a “catastrophe” with the unmitigated rise in cases and deaths having “burned out” the medical workforce. The letter notes that it took “roughly seven months” to reach over 100,000 cases in the state, only 36 days to get to over 200,000 cases and now only 18 days to surpass 300,000 cases. The exponential rise in cases is clearly pushing hospitals and staff past their breaking point.
State health officials published a release last week on the state of Wisconsin’s hospital system, outlined in Evers’ emergency. The numbers paint a sober picture of a dire health emergency. Nearly every intensive care unit bed and every medical-surgical bed is full in the majority of hospitals throughout the state. Over a third of all hospitals in Wisconsin are operating at peak capacity and are unable to admit new patients. Twenty-one percent of medical-surgical beds and 32 percent of intensive care unit beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients.
Staffing shortages are of top concern to doctors throughout the state treating COVID-19 patients in overrun hospitals. Bellin Health emergency medicine physician Dr. Paul Casey told Fox11 News, “We fluctuate from about 150 to 200 staff on quarantine either having COVID or exposed to COVID so that is a significant part of our workforce.” The hospital is relying on health care workers and nurses working overtime—which causes more burnout, fatigue and other health problems. Some are resorting to staffing agencies to fill ICU positions.
The situation in Wisconsin is particularly dangerous for residents of its many rural counties, some of whom will need to travel hundreds of miles or across state lines to the nearest hospital as beds fill up rapidly.
The ruling class sought to extract ever more profits from the already dilapidated health care system before the pandemic spiraled out of control placing hospitals at a major disadvantage. In Wisconsin and in neighboring states, thousands of health care workers have been laid off since the start of the pandemic.
Throughout the pandemic, state Republican legislators and conservative groups have opposed even the most limited attempts to control the spread of the virus. Earlier this month, Wisconsin’s Third District Court of Appeals ruled that the governor’s Executive Order 3, which limited public gatherings indoors to 25 percent capacity across the state, was “invalid and unenforceable” just as it was about to expire. The order was signed Oct. 6 and blocked amid several lawsuits, all which went virtually unchallenged by state Democrats, rendering it worthless.
As Evers is aware, the latest mask mandate may never truly go into effect under pressure from state Republicans. A mask mandate issued previously is still before the Wisconsin Supreme Court as part of the lawsuit that challenged Executive Order 3.
Governor Evers has not opposed the efforts of Republicans to block his executive orders, which do not require the public to take any action, only “urging” precautions. To the contrary, he is eager to collaborate with them in carrying out efforts in the interest of the corporate ruling class to keep profits flowing by keeping non-essential industries operating while holding mass opposition to the disastrous herd immunity policy of the ruling class at bay.
The same day that he issued his latest executive orders, Evers met with Republican lawmakers Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to come to an agreement on austerity measures and limited health protocols.
Vos told the Wisconsin State Journal that the meeting “was a productive discussion and as expected, there were issues we agreed on and some that we didn’t… I see today’s conversation as a positive step forward to finding common ground in developing a more unified state response to the coronavirus pandemic.”
Republicans have asked for more testing, a mere doubling of the already inadequate number of contact tracers, assistance for small businesses and cuts to unemployment insurance. Republicans are also pushing for legislation to prevent liability lawsuits against businesses, schools and local governments operating during the pandemic. None of these will face any opposition from the Democrats.
The Wisconsin state Department of Administration reported that state revenues would “modestly increase” over the next three fiscal years. Evers has already forced state agencies to cut spending over $370 million for the 2020–21 fiscal year to address increased costs due to the pandemic. This amount will not be nearly enough to address the public health crisis and leaves untouched the vast amounts of wealth piled up by the ruling class from the start of the pandemic. The cuts will be borne by the working class, who will see less funding for public education, health care, employment and other social services.
Like everywhere else in the world where the pandemic is overwhelming health care systems, the current state of affairs in Wisconsin was not inevitable. With no unemployment protection from the state, workers have been thrust into unsafe workplaces with little to no protection from the virus and their children forced back into schools so they can go to work producing profits for the financial elite. Years of austerity and underfunding of the health care infrastructure in Wisconsin at the hands of both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have created a crisis that the capitalist system cannot solve.
Mass opposition among healthcare workers as estimated deaths exceed 20,000
The International Council of Nurses (ICN), a federation of 130 national nurse associations across the globe, has confirmed the deaths of 1,500 nurses across 44 countries, equal to the number of nurse deaths in World War I. The council also estimates that up to 20,000 health care workers may have died from the virus.
The ICN arrives at this figure by estimating that health care workers make up approximately 10 percent of the global COVID-19 cases. While case fatality is roughly 2.6 percent internationally, the ICN has cautiously used a low estimate of 0.5 percent case fatality among health care workers to arrive at more than 20,000 health care worker deaths internationally.
In comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate of US health care worker infections and deaths seems shockingly low, at 228,553 infections and 822 deaths. The US government has no comprehensive record of the frontline health care workers who have died of COVID-19 and the CDC itself has acknowledged that its counts are a vast underestimate. In their examination, health care worker status was only confirmed for 21 percent of the more than 8 million surveyed, and death status was only available for 73 percent of those surveyed.
Data from journalists at the Guardian, in conjunction with Kaiser Health News, are searching through obituary websites, nurse union websites, and sites like GoFundMe.com in order to calculate a more accurate US death count and to tell the stories of the deceased workers. Their ever-growing list of health care worker deaths has reached 1,396.
Messages blare across the mainstream media that individuals who refuse to wear masks or quarantine appropriately are to blame for these deaths. Across social media, nurses and other health care workers write statements or make videos pleading with individuals to forgo holiday gatherings and to take the virus seriously. One cartoon depicts health care workers performing CPR on a COVID-19 patient while the other side of the frame shows people laughing and drinking at a bar without masks.
The real responsibility, however, for the explosion of cases is the world’s ruling class and its apologists who base all social and economic decisions on the needs and interests of the capitalist profit system. Schools, workplaces, bars and restaurants are opened against expert scientific advice as students and workers fall ill, die or suffer long term health issues after their initial infection.
These illnesses and deaths exacerbate the dangerous conditions in the hospitals as staffing is stretched increasingly thin and health care workers’ physical and mental endurance wanes in the tenth month of the battle against the coronavirus. Cases and hospitalizations are reaching record highs as hospital staffing is set to reach record lows.
The Cleveland Clinic, a renowned medical center with affiliate hospitals across Ohio, confirmed last week that nearly 1,000 caregivers are currently off work with COVID-19 infections, triple the number out sick two weeks ago. “Caregiver” is a term the hospital system uses for all employees from nurses to janitorial staff to HR workers, but the infection rates are likely much higher among employees on the front lines. A letter sent out to employees from CEO Tom Mihaljevic cynically stated that these infections are a result of community spread and are not contracted at the workplace.
A Cleveland Clinic nurse recently spoke with the W orld S ocialist W eb S ite about conditions in the hospital: “I don’t work on a COVID-19 unit, but I have heard that they are filling up. Surgeons who work on my unit have been told to cancel all surgeries that require recovery in the [intensive care unit]. While staffing seems to be acceptable right now, I know that won’t last.
“I’m extremely concerned that the hospital could end up in a situation where it requires hiring a pool of travel nurses. The issue is every hospital is going to be drawing from that same pool. In April we had hotspots in major cities and travel nurses could be deployed to New York City or Los Angeles. Cleveland Clinic even sent a group of nurses to NYC. But now it’s Bismarck, Pittsburgh, El Paso, Southern Ohio; it’s everywhere.”
When asked about the recent announcement from the state health officer in North Dakota that asymptomatic health care workers infected with COVID-19 will continue to work in the COVID-19 units of their hospitals, the Cleveland Clinic nurse added, “It is a horrendous policy. However, in my opinion, this is likely happening in a more subtle way at hospitals across the country.”
She continued, “At Cleveland Clinic, which often sets a national example for other hospital systems, it is difficult to get a COVID-19 test even if you have symptoms. You have to have the correct set of symptoms. My coworkers and I have had experiences of being exposed to the virus, developing symptoms, but not being able to get a test. In a sense, this is asking us to work with coronavirus.”
Mass opposition is growing among health care workers against the criminal policies of governments and hospital systems that have continued to put their lives at risk. Just in the past month, hospital laundry workers in Manhattan and nurses in Flint, Michigan, East Liverpool, Ohio, and Langhorne, Pennsylvania, have gone on strike or threatened to strike against unsafe working conditions.
Additionally, hundreds of workers at 11 Illinois locations of Infinity Health Care Management nursing homes will begin a strike today against low staffing levels, poor pay and the lack of proper personal protective equipment. These workers are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Over 800 nurses at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, 30 miles northeast of Philadelphia in Bucks County, went on strike November 17 after management refused their demands to improve dangerously low staffing levels.
St. Mary’s nurses voted to join the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP) last year. The union, however, has not yet been able to negotiate the first contract, pushing 85 percent of the nurses to authorize the strike.
St. Mary’s is owned by Michigan-based Trinity Health, a massive “non-profit” Catholic health system, which operates 93 hospitals and 120 continuing care locations in 22 states. Trinity received $600 million in federal grants in April and May as part of the $175 billion CARES Act bailout of health care providers by the US Congress and another $1.6 billion of Medicare advance payments.
Hospital management has worked to suffocate the strike, replacing workers with non-union staff and travel nurses. While the union only authorized a two-day strike, striking nurses were not allowed to return to work until Sunday in order to allow the temporary nurses to finish out their five-day contract.
St. Mary’s nurses returned to work Sunday with no contract. Even if a contract deal is reached in the coming days, nurses should hold no illusions in PASNAP. In early November, PASNAP reached a deal with Trinity Health System at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital averting a planned walkout by 260 nurses. The new contract was vague and does little to ensure safer working conditions. The three percent wage increase for three years will barely keep pace with inflation, and the precise number of offered additional staff is unclear.
A rally held during the first day of the strike gave St. Mary’s nurses a chance to express their anger and frustration over their working conditions. Nurses spoke in front of a banner that read “243,” the number of nurses who have left the hospital in the last two years. Many nurses expressed anger that hourly pay at St. Mary’s is several dollars less than nearby hospitals, leading many nurses to seek employment elsewhere, further worsening staffing ratios and patient safety.
Coy Clark, an ICU nurse, who is also a COVID-19 survivor, said, “Trinity Health is telling patients that everything is separated. There are different elevators for COVID and non-COVID patients, there are different entrances, the entire lobby is even separated. What Trinity doesn’t tell you is that this separation stops when you get to the unit. Then your nurse has multiple COVID patients and you.”
Clark contracted COVID-19 from work and was out sick for three weeks. “When I came back in April, life was a living hell. We had to wear the same mask for 15 days. We had to wipe down our blue gowns and reuse them. Then we got new gowns... where the label said, ‘not for medical use.’ All the while, the administration is as snug as a bug in their offices. They aren’t short staffed. They haven’t gotten rid of their secretaries, they don’t care about us.”
A medical-surgical nurse, Kathy, said, “Hospitals need to be brought back to health care instead of turning into corporate entities where watching the stock market is more important than the health of our community.”
While recent health care strikes have broken out in response to expired contracts, the concerns of nurses are tied to the broader crisis of health care in the United States, a product of a decades-long social counterrevolution in which the health care infrastructure has been pushed to the brink in the interests of enriching a tiny oligarchy. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, rural hospitals hemorrhaged funding; nursing shortages and unsafe staffing ratios pushed nurses across the country to protest; and deep cuts to Medicaid created provider shortages and spiraling health care costs.
The degradation of the health care system has been abetted by the various health care-related unions in conjunction with the political establishment. Unions have repeatedly accepted sellout contracts and endorsed Democratic Party candidates who push through policies that worsen the conditions of nurses, including recent school and business reopenings that have undoubtedly contributed to the recent surge of the pandemic.
As the pandemic rages out of control, the WSWS urges health care workers to contact the WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter today to tell their stories and discuss building rank-and-file committees to take their fight forward in opposition to the corrupt union bureaucracy and political establishment.
Workers and students in Wisconsin and Iowa who are opposed to the reckless endangerment of their lives for the sake of profit will find allies in the working class across the US and internationally. It is essential to build rank-and-file committees and neighborhood committees, independent of the Democrats and Republicans. Only the independent, internationally-coordinated intervention of the working class will be able to advance the demand for a halt to non-essential production and full compensation for all workers in order to bring the pandemic and its mounting death under control before an effective vaccine becomes widely available.
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