La organización superior de dirección empresarial BioCubaFarma informó la concesión del permiso para iniciar en el país los ensayos clínicos de un candidato vacunal cubano contra la COVID-19, capaz de inducir una potente respuesta inmunitaria ante la infección del virus SARS-COV-2
This article is a part of the Thesis Eleven online project: Living and Thinking Crisis.
by Göran Therborn
The COVID-19 pandemic operates as a magnifying force to social actors, and as a magnifying glass to social observers. As a magnifying force it has, so far, mainly strengthened pre-existing societal tendencies. But it … Läs mer “7/7 – Opus Magnum: How the Pandemic is Changing the World”
By Don Fitz Cuba: From AIDS, dengue, and ebola to COVID-19
April 18, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Preparing for a pandemic requires understanding that a change in the relationship between people is primary and the production of things is secondary and flows from social factors. Investors in profit-based medicine cannot comprehend this concept. Nothing … Läs mer “25/4 – Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19”
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Monday 6 April 2020, by Ståle Holgersen
The useless decade
Anwar Shaikh argued in the late 1980s that when the economic system is healthy, it rapidly revives from all sorts of setbacks, but when unhealthy, practically anyhing can trigger its collapse. Now, it certainly was not just anything that trigged this round of … Läs mer “10/4 – Against the crisis: The crisis is not an opportunity, it’s the enemy”
Source: Solidaria, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau
By Stella Calloni on March 15, 2020
The coronavirus, a new strain of the already existing one, whose mutation is being investigated has put the world between the solidarity and the misery of a dying system, capable of using the effects of a pandemic to impose a state of terror … Läs mer “16/3 – Pandemics and War Games, Solidarity as an Antidote”
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Sunday 15 March 2020,
by Daniel Tanuro
1. The fact that the economic slowdown preceded Covid-19 should not lead to denying either the economic impact of the epidemic (interruption of some production processes, disruption of supply chains, sectoral impacts on air transport and tourism, etc.) or the seriousness of the threat it … Läs mer “16/3 – Eight theses on Covid-19”