Lebanon's wave of mass struggle was interrupted by the pandemic. But now the economic and social crisis caused by the coronavirus has revived the country's anti-elite protest movement.
Democracy was already under siege from Hungary's far-right government. Now the pandemic has provided Viktor Orbán’s government with the perfect excuse to pass a law ratcheting up repression to new levels.
Leftist publishers said that Sanders' campaign was the path to a militant mass movement and a break with the two-party system. Now Sanders is defeated, they're arguing to stay inside the Democrats. What gives?
There's no "China virus". Neither China's factory farming nor its authoritarianism set it apart from the rest of the world. China is a vital component of the world capitalist system, both the rival and the collaborator of the West; and it's that system of capitalism that created and spread COVID-19.
