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Laura Baines is the mother of seven children between the ages of eight and 25. Her 15-year-old son Louie suffers from cri-du-chat syndrome, a rare disease resulting from a chromosomal condition where a piece of chromosome 5 is missing. She spoke to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic about her family’s experiences during the pandemic.

The pandemic has exposed the economic, political, social and moral bankruptcy of world capitalism, which must be overthrown.

Berger denounces the failure of governments to protect the population from COVID-19 and calls for an “information war” to refute the unscientific material and lies about the disease from the government and mainstream media.

Are we to believe there are no eligible beneficiaries in the country?

Some of the pillars that are key to building a strong union are workers unity and collective bargaining, says the Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA) which is affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union. The union organizing strategy is anchored on fighting for the unity of workers, workers’ rights, and living wages. In that sense, the union is living up to its slogan: Divided we beg, united we bargain.

The event, titled “COVID-19 spreads through Australian schools: Lives before profit! Stop the pandemic!” featured a report from Evan Blake, a member of the US SEP and a leading WSWS writer.

Shipbreaking has been called the most dangerous job in the world. In countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan, workers face dangerous and precarious working conditions, with very little training, safety equipment and access to medical services. For this, they receive poverty wages. 

After elections in Morocco earlier this year, a new coalition government is in power. Trade unions had been actively protesting the policies of the former government led by the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), in power for ten years. 

At the meeting, nurses, educators, workers and students presented a terrible picture of the consequences of the official coronavirus policies.

The latest sell-out underscores once again that the unions are on the side of government and big business and the necessity for public sector workers to organise themselves independently of the unions.