From the nickel mines of Northern Ontario and the coalfields of Alabama to the Atacama desert in Chile and the jungles of Colombia, miners of every race and nationality are engaged in an international strike wave against the world’s most powerful transnational mining corporations.
“We in the health service and all sectors of workers want to eradicate this deadly disease, but capitalist big businesses want to continue their profiteering.”
India’s emergence as the world’s COVID-19 epicentre, with more than two million active cases, is the direct product of the “profits before lives” policy enforced by Narendra Modi and the far-right BJP government.
London bus driver David O’Sullivan was sacked by his employer Metroline after warning his colleagues about the spread of coronavirus at the depot where he worked.