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Influenza became one more example of British injustice that spurred Indian people in their fight for independence. Mahatma Gandhi wrote, “In no other civilized country could a government have left things so much undone as did the Government of India"

Gaza, strangled by a 13-year Israeli blockade and scarred by a decade of Israeli military assaults, lacks clean water and electricity. Its Palestinian population has only rudimentary medical care. And that was before the attack of the coronavirus.

Safe and secure housing access is itself a key determinant of health. If we focus on just the physical and chemical hazards of the indoor environment, we will ignore health problems associated with housing insecurity for millions of families.

Some of the Labour Party’s most senior officials acted to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, obstruct everything it tried to do, direct abuse at staff and activists supportive of Corbyn, and expressed a preference for a Tory victory.

A coronavirus outbreak at a Heartland Alliance facility on Chicago’s South Side may be the largest outbreak of the virus in any shelter for immigrant youth in the country.

No Evil Foods in Asheville, North Carolina, may make good El Zapatista but Emiliano would be very unhappy with the way it treats its workers

"My bill to cancel rent and mortgages isn't just necessary," says Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, "it's popular."

California poet Jessica Cohn touches the early days of shelter-in-place “when hope was/a shell game.”

Among the most prominent victims of the coronavirus financial crisis is the U.S. Postal Service. The Trump administration—which, like much of the GOP, has long advocated for cutbacks and privatization of the postal service.

“Starve the beast” — forcing governments to cut services by depriving them of resources — has been Republican strategy for decades. This is just more of the same.