NY Mayor de Blasio scapegoats Jews for spreading coronavirus

Vol. 84/No. 19 - May 18, 2020
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio personally supervised cops breaking up Hasidic funeral service in Brooklyn April 28, saying stepped up policing was “message to the Jewish community.”

NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio singled out “the Jewish community” for not practicing social distancing, claiming they endangered others’ lives. He followed up his smears by ordering the New York Police Department to step up patrols in Jewish…


Workers’ struggles don’t stop during coronavirus

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020

Reader Byron Johnson-Blanchard writes that the article “Morality of Capitalist Rulers Reflected in Shutdown of AA” in the April 13 issue of the Militant presents views he considers “ridiculous and reckless” for counterposing “face-to-face human interactions and neighborliness” to the…


Morality of capitalist rulers reflected in shutdown of AA

Vol. 84/No. 14 - April 13, 2020
Lori Spencer waves to her 81-year-old mother through window at Seattle aged care facility March 11. Capitalist rulers’ “social distancing” restrictions increase isolation by shutting down sorely needed meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and visits to elderly in care homes.

NEW YORK — The responses of the capitalist bosses and their governments to the spread of coronavirus — both what they have not done to prepare and what they are doing to defend their profit-driven system — is taking a…