Educators must fight the attempts of New York City’s Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio to force the full reopening of schools before the COVID-19 pandemic has been contained.
Teachers union and pseudo-left embrace São Paulo government’s herd immunity policy
With São Paulo and all of Brazil facing the threat of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, right-wing Governor João Doria (PSDB-Brazilian Social Democracy Party) last week announced new measures to lift restrictions on nonessential services. Also planned this week are measures that increase the maximum number of students in classrooms.
Even in the face of this open policy to subordinate human lives to private profits, pseudo-left organizations and the São Paulo state teachers’ union, the APEOESP, have kept a complacent silence about the millionaire governor’s herd immunity policy.
UK billionaire wealth explodes amid devastation of the working class
Sunday Times Rich List. This is the biggest jump since 1989, when the
Sunday Times began cataloguing the fortunes of the UK’s super-rich.
The Rich List comprises the 1,000 wealthiest people or families resident in the United Kingdom ranked by their net wealth. The list is not limited to British citizens and includes individuals and families born overseas but who predominantly work and/or reside in the UK.
Leonard Blavatnik, 2018 (credit Wikimedia Commons-Mark Neyman/Government Press Office-Israel)
Overall, the richest 250 people on the Rich List increased their wealth by 16.3 percent, up to £658.1 billion.. The 171 billionaires increased their combined wealth by £106.5 billion (21.7 percent) to £597.3 billion.
Educators and workers must take control of the response to the global pandemic!
Sixteen months after COVID-19 was first detected, what is the state of the global pandemic? There’s no end in sight. Worldwide, more than 12,000 people die from COVID-19 every day, with more than 500 deaths each day in the US. New studies estimate that upwards of 10 million people have lost their lives to the virus so far. More Americans have now died from COVID-19 than in all wars of the 20th century combined.
As the pandemic goes on and on, new and ever more contagious variants continue to evolve, appearing first in one part of the globe and quickly spreading to others. The latest is B.1.617.2, the Indian variant, which is now ripping through the United Kingdom, 4,000 miles from where it was first detected.