Re: [Marxism] U.S. Plant Workplaces Emerge as Coronavirus Battlegrounds - WSJ

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The Coronavirus Strikes and their Significance, So Far
by Dan La Botz
New Politics, March 31, 2020
https://newpol.org/the-coronavirus-strikes-and-their-significance-so-far/


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> Tensions are breaking out between employers and workers across the U.S. as
> some companies push to keep producing during the coronavirus pandemic and
> some employees push back over health concerns and other issues.
>
> In recent days, plant workers have walked off the job at companies ranging
> from poultry producer Perdue Farms Inc. to soda maker Refresco B.V. At
> Tyson Foods Inc., workers petitioned for more paid sick leave. Some want
> more protective equipment. Others have complained to regulators about
> unsafe conditions.
>   . . .
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> https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-plant-workplaces-emerge-as-coronavirus-battlegrounds-11585775230
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[Marxism] U.S. Plant Workplaces Emerge as Coronavirus Battlegrounds - WSJ

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Tensions are breaking out between employers and workers across the U.S. as some 
companies push to keep producing during the coronavirus pandemic and some 
employees push back over health concerns and other issues.

In recent days, plant workers have walked off the job at companies ranging from 
poultry producer Perdue Farms Inc. to soda maker Refresco B.V. At Tyson Foods 
Inc., workers petitioned for more paid sick leave. Some want more protective 
equipment. Others have complained to regulators about unsafe conditions.

Warnings about social distancing and exposure have also surfaced new concerns, 
especially when doing business in close quarters seems to conflict with 
guidance from health officials about physical distancing.

“The next phase of concern is safety in the workplace,” said William Schaffner, 
an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.

Protections like physical spacing of employees are particularly important, said 
Mr. Schaffner, because the virus spreads even from those who aren’t 
symptomatic. Identifying sick workers by checking employees’ fever, he said, 
“is helpful but not the complete story.”

Meatpacking, which is seeing increased demand as Americans batten down at home, 
is one industry where workers have become concerned about being in proximity 
while cutting carcasses and trimming meat. Some companies have spaced workers 
farther apart and staggered shift starts and break times. Tyson and others have 
begun offering employees masks and gloves, and taking their temperatures.

Earlier this week, the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Hispanic 
civil-rights group, asked the federal Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration for broader guidance on safety equipment, paid sick leave and 
regular health checks for plant employees. A significant share of 
meatpacking-plant employees are immigrants.

Last week, about two dozen workers at a Perdue Farms chicken plant walked off 
their jobs in Georgia, complaining that the company wasn’t doing enough to 
prevent coronavirus infection, and not paying them enough. Perdue said that 
after speaking with management, most of the employees returned to work. The 
Perdue plant isn’t represented by a union.

Perdue said it had already boosted plant sanitation and extended hours for its 
on-site wellness centers, which are free for employees and their families. It 
has also temporarily increased pay for hourly plant workers, and waived a 
waiting period to get short-term disability benefits, a spokeswoman said. The 
company is also offering free chicken to employees.

It is unusual for nonunion employees to walk off jobs, particularly immigrant 
workers in meatpacking and other industries. “I was floored,” said Deborah 
Berkowitz, a former U.S. OSHA official and poultry-worker safety advocate. “The 
workers have very few safety rights if they refuse to work.”

In Arkansas, a group called Venceremos, which was founded last year and works 
with poultry workers, has called on Tyson to expand pay for workers who have to 
stay home sick, saying the company’s existing policy doesn’t go far enough. In 
an interview, a worker complained about jam-packed factory-production lines, 
not enough hand sanitizer and crowded lines for worker bathrooms.

A Tyson spokesman said the company is committed to hearing out employees’ 
concerns, and maintains an anonymous ethics helpline. He said problems with 
hand sanitizer and bathroom lines haven’t been raised.

Tyson, which produces one in 5 pounds of all beef, pork and chicken produced 
daily in the U.S., said it has seen a small number of employees test positive 
for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The company has 
directed employees who might have had contact with infected colleagues to 
self-quarantine, has notified other workers of positive cases and is checking 
workers’ temperatures before shifts, the spokesman said. In some plant break 
rooms, colored dots have been placed on chairs to help Tyson staff sit the 
recommended distance apart.

Experts said they don’t worry about transmitting the virus through food, but 
they say workplace conditions risk creating additional coronavirus hot spots 
and could potentially slow food and other production.

In Wharton, N.J., workers at a Refresco bottling plant walked out on March 21 
after a manager berated an employee who was worried about the coronavirus and 
reported himself as feeling ill, a worker at the plant said. On March 27, the 
workers tried to deliver a letter addressing their concerns to the human 
-resources department, but it wasn’t accepted and they had to email it to upper 
management. 

[Marxism] coronavirus pandemic and systemic capitalist economic crisis

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Did you read this excellent article?  Louis put it on list yesterday.

From: Louis Proyect via Marxism 
Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:47 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Why coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernova |
openDemocracy


By John Smith, the author of "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century:
Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis"

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/why-coronavirus-could-spark-capitalist-supernova/
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[Marxism] Pandemic, the Left, and Workers’ Power | Left Voice

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https://www.leftvoice.org/pandemic-the-left-and-workers-power

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[Marxism] An appeal from the Canadian Network on Cuba.

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Please share this appeal as widely as you can. 

 

Cuba is continuing to send scarce supplies and skilled medical personnel to
a considerable number of countries, even as the island ramps up preparations
for what may well turn out to be a very difficult, long and costly struggle
against COVID-19. Unlike here and in other capitalist countries, Cuba’s
single priority is once again the preservation of human life at any cost.
This includes aiding others, by maintaining and reinforcing its policy of
medical internationalism.

 

Meanwhile, Washington is pressing other countries to turn down Cuban offers
of aid (Cuban doctors have just arrived in the tiny principality of Andorra
after it rejected US pressure). Uncle Sam has refused to suspend the
application of its economic sanctions Cuba (and Venezuela), even as a
temporary emergency measure. See, for example, “US Blockade Prevents Medical
Supplies From Reaching Cuba” https://tinyurl.com/wusjxrm

 

The US economic blockade against Cuba has been in effect for decades. It has
severely weakened the country’s economy as well as its highly regarded
health system, which now faces an unprecedented challenge with very limited
material resources at its disposal. Even so, the country is girding for
battle, counting on its scientific prowess in certain domains and its often
underestimated human resources. As an example of the latter, medical
students have been mobilized to visit every household on the island,
surveying the residents to identify those with symptoms and refer them for
treatment. They explain how all members of the family should conduct
themselves to protect both themselves and their loved ones. As of this
writing, the medical students have visited the homes of some 8.5 million of
the approximately 11.5 million Cubans who live on the island.

 

-- Art Young

 

Campaign to Support Cuba's Contribution to World Fight Against COVID-19

-Isaac Saney, CNC Spokesperson, March 30, 2020-

 

The Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC) is launching the Campaign to Support
Cuba's Contribution to World Fight Against COVID-19 to assist the heroic
island's internationalist medical missions that are combatting the pandemic
across the world. At the time of writing, Cuba has more than 800 medical
personnel serving humanity in the trenches of 16 countries against the
dreaded corona virus: including Italy (currently with the greatest number of
fatalities), Spain, Andorra, in Europe; Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Grenada, Dominica,
Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Belize, in the Caribbean; Venezuela and
Nicaragua, in Latin America, and Angola in Africa. In the coming days more
Cuban medical missions will be dispatched to other countries. 

 

Currently, at least, 45 countries have sought to use Cuba's Interferon Alfa
2B Recombinant (IFNrec) for confronting the COVID-19 pandemic.  The
international profile and acknowledgement  of IFNrec is steadily growing.
For example, there is the March 24 Newsweek article, "Cuba Uses 'Wonder
Drug" to Fight Coronavirus Around the World Despite U.S. sanctions," and,
"The world rediscovers Cuban medical internationalism," in the March 30
issue of Le Monde Diplomatique. The Chinese National Health Commission is
using IFNrec as a crucial component of the anti-viral treatment to combat
the coronavirus.  In the recently published extensive medical handbook by
Zhejiang University School of Medicine on how to treat COVID-19 based on
China's experience with the pandemic, IFNrec is identified as a significant
part of the treatment. It has been very effective among the most vulnerable
patients in China, Cuba, and Italy. 

 

Cuba's medical missions and other generous assistance to humanity in this
time of pandemic reflects the island's history and dedication over the last
six decades of always standing with the peoples of the world in their time
of need.  During the course of the Cuban Revolution more than 400,000 Cuban
healthcare workers have served in 164 countries. For example, many of the
medical personnel now intimately involved in the fight against COVID-19 in
the 16 countries mentioned are part of the specially trained Henry Reeve
International Medical Brigade against Disasters and Serious Epidemics, which
distinguished themselves the fight against the Ebola epidemic in West
Africa.

 

Cuban internationalist medical missions have often been compared to
dreamcatchers. Just as dreamcatchers allow only good dreams to pass through,
while preventing nightmares, so too the Cuban medical internationalist
missions do their utmost to stop the nightmares of disease from reaching the

[Marxism] NAVARRO's GASLIGHTING

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Just watched a bit of Trump enabler Peter Navarro on TV --

they claim to be "solving" the bidding war for medical equipment by
CONFINING it to this country -- NO EXPORTING is how he describes these new
rules --

BUT in the same briefing they specifically said they would NOT take action
to "disrupt the supply chain"

WHAT A CROCK!
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[Marxism] Low-income NYC neighborhoods hit hardest by coronavirus: data - New York Daily News

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https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-poorer-nyc-neighborhoods-20200402-vm3mmukxojezxbqlmuzfkxxhly-story.html

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[Marxism] 'Our players are afraid': Nicaraguan football ploughs on amid the crisis | Football | The Guardian

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This is really fucked up.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/01/players-afraid-nicaraguan-football-continues-coronavirus-crisis

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[Marxism] The COVID-19 Fossil Fuel Industry Bailout

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https://news.littlesis.org/2020/04/02/the-covid-19-fossil-fuel-industry-bailout-how-to-fight-it/

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[Marxism] Gil Scott Heron Birthday Show Today at 4PST

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(JAI:  Thanx to comrade and brother Bilal for forwarding this on.

(Gil Scott  was a leading
voice of the cultural revolution that accompanied and aided greatly our
political efforts in the late 60's (actually early '70s but the term '60s
covers that).

(And this is why we must support our talented revolutionaries creating
art.  They will more than repay us with an uplifting of our spirits.

(Probably his most famous composition was "The Revolution Will Not be
Televised"
.  Hear
it here )

--- Forwarded message -
From: Bilal Ali 
Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:01 PM
Subject: Gil Scott Heron Birthday Show
To: John A Imani 

tune in to radiojustice.org for the show I produced today 4pm.
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[Marxism] These Migrant Workers Did Not Suddenly Fall From the Sky: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2020).

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[Marxism] Brazil’s Dead End

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NY Review of Books, APRIL 23, 2020 ISSUE
Brazil’s Dead End
by Larry Rohter

Brazil Apart: 1964–2019
by Perry Anderson
Verso, 224 pp., $26.95

The Edge of Democracy
a documentary film by Petra Costa

O Mecanismo [The Mechanism]
a television series created by José Padilha and Elena Soarez

For Brazilians, January 1, 2003, was one of those rare moments in 
history when everything seems possible. It was Inauguration Day, and not 
only was power being transferred from one democratically elected 
civilian president to another for the first time in more than forty 
years, but the man donning the green-and-yellow presidential sash, Luiz 
Inácio Lula da Silva, was a former lathe operator and union leader, and 
the son of illiterate peasants—what Brazilians call povão, a man of the 
people. Tens of thousands of ordinary citizens had traveled from every 
corner of their vast country to celebrate his swearing-in, and they 
flooded the esplanade in front of the presidential palace in Brasília, 
waving banners, chanting “hope has vanquished fear,” and cheering the 
incoming president’s promise of a new era of honesty and transparency in 
government.


Sixteen years later, Lula, as he is universally known, was several 
months into a long prison term, having been found guilty of corruption 
and money laundering during and after his eight years in office. His 
hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff (whom Brazilians usually call by 
her first name), had been impeached, with the connivance of political 
parties nominally allied with her, and the left-wing party Lula founded 
and led, the Workers’ Party, had been all but obliterated in the 
municipal elections that followed soon after. Encouraged by that 
outcome, an obscure ultra-right-wing congressman from Rio de Janeiro 
with no party support, Jair Bolsonaro, had launched an insurgent 
campaign for president that, shockingly, was about to put him in control 
of Latin America’s most populous nation.


How Brazil got from Lula to Bolsonaro in so short a time seems 
unfathomable, even to many of the 210 million Brazilians who lived 
through the process. Two main theories have been offered to explain the 
momentous shift. One is that Lula, by presiding over the most corrupt 
government in Brazilian history, betrayed those who believed in him and 
that Bolsonaro became the instrument of their disgust and revenge. The 
other is that Lula and his party were victims of a “parliamentary coup 
d’état” and a campaign of judicial persecution, both aimed at restoring 
to power the elites who scorned Lula and regarded him and his party as a 
threat to their interests.


In Brazil Apart: 1964–2019, Perry Anderson, an emeritus professor of 
history and sociology at UCLA, positions himself squarely in the second 
camp. Lula is not only innocent of the trumped-up charges of which he 
has been convicted, Anderson argues, but he and his party are solely 
responsible for virtually all the social and economic advances Brazil 
has enjoyed this century. From 2003 to 2016, he writes, Brazil was “the 
theatre of a socio-political drama without equivalent in any other major 
state,” making it for the first time in its history “a country that 
mattered politically beyond its borders, as an example and potential 
inspiration to others.” The collapse of that noble experiment, he would 
have us believe, was the work of a jealous, vindictive, and treacherous 
opposition, and he directs particular opprobrium at Lula’s predecessor 
in office, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and the center-left party he then 
led, the Brazilian Social Democratic Party.


About Bolsonaro, Anderson reiterates the obvious: he is a moral monster. 
He spouts racist invective at black and indigenous Brazilians; is a 
misogynist; uses the most vile language imaginable to refer to gay 
people; extols the military dictatorship that tortured, exiled, and 
killed Brazilians for twenty-one excruciating years; sees arming the 
middle class as the solution to the country’s crime problem; wants to 
hand the country over to the rapacious corporate interests that are 
pillaging the Amazon and fouling pristine beaches; and is waging war 
against a free press. If he has redeeming qualities, they are carefully 
hidden, though Anderson generously describes him as “crude and violent 
certainly, but also with a boyish, playful side, capable of a coarse, on 
occasion even self-deprecating, good humor.”


Lula, on the other hand, is far more complicated and interesting. When I 
first met him in 1978, he was leading a metalworkers’ strike in the 
industrial belt around São Paulo and, at the age of thirty-three, just 
emerging as a 

[Marxism] Some experiences of how not to organise and a more useful one – Angry Workers of the World

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Former member of Gerry Healy's sect takes stock of his experience.

https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/some-experiences-of-how-not-to-organise-and-a-more-useful-one/

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[Marxism] If the Virus Hadn’t Caused the Crash, Something Else Would Have

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/if-the-virus-hadn-e2-80-99t-caused-the-crash-something-else-would-have/ar-BB11Zf8i

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[Marxism] Grim Reapers | The New Republic

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By Laurie Garrett

How Trump and Xi set the stage for the coronavirus pandemic

https://newrepublic.com/article/157118/trump-xi-jinping-america-china-blame-coronavirus-pandemic

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[Marxism] MR Online | Catastrophe capitalism: climate change, COVID-19, and economic crisis

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John Bellamy Foster interview

https://mronline.org/2020/04/01/catastrophe-capitalism-climate-change-covid-19-and-economic-crisis/

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[Marxism] Expert: To prevent pandemics like COVID-19, 'take care of nature'

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https://www.conservation.org/blog/expert-to-prevent-pandemics-like-COVID-19-take-care-of-nature

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[Marxism] Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me protect your workers from coronavirus | Chris Smalls | Opinion | The Guardian

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Dear Jeff Bezos,

When I applied to work at Amazon, the job description was simple. It 
said you need to have a high-school diploma or a GED (General 
Educational Development) and you have to be able to lift 50 pounds. 
That’s it. Now, because of Covid-19, we’re being told that Amazon 
workers are “the new Red Cross”. But we don’t want to be heroes. We are 
regular people. I don’t have a medical degree. I wasn’t trained to be a 
first responder. We shouldn’t be asked to risk our lives to come into 
work. But we are. And someone has to be held accountable for that, and 
that person is you.


full: 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/02/dear-jeff-bezos-amazon-instead-of-firing-me-protect-your-workers-from-coronavirus


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[Marxism] The Next Pandemic Could Be Hiding in the Arctic Permafrost | The New Republic

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https://newrepublic.com/article/157129/next-pandemic-hiding-arctic-permafrost

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[Marxism] Coronavirus and the racial regime in Slovakia: the state response to the Roma | Lefteast

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Engels on nature and humanity | Michael Roberts Blog

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Actually, Engels was well ahead of Marx (yet again) in connecting the 
destruction and damage to the environment that industrialisation was 
causing.  While still living in his home town of Barmen (now Wuppertal), 
he wrote several diary notes about the inequality of rich and poor, the 
pious hypocrisy of the church preachers and also the pollution of the 
rivers.


Just 18 years old, he writes: “the two towns of Elberfeld and Barmen, 
which stretch along the valley for a distance of nearly three hours’ 
travel. The purple waves of the narrow river flow sometimes swiftly, 
sometimes sluggishly between smoky factory buildings and yarn-strewn 
bleaching-yards. Its bright red colour, however, is due not to some 
bloody battle, for the fighting here is waged only by theological pens 
and garrulous old women, usually over trifles, nor to shame for men’s 
actions, although there is indeed enough cause for that, but simply and 
solely to the numerous dye-works using Turkey red. Coming from 
Düsseldorf, one enters the sacred region at Sonnborn; the muddy Wupper 
flows slowly by and, compared with the Rhine just left behind, its 
miserable appearance is very disappointing.”


Barmen in 1913

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