Earlier this week, four labor leaders voted against including Medicare for All in the Democratic Party platform — a slap in the face to millions of Americans struggling through an unprecedented pandemic. We need a union movement that fights for all workers, both organized and unorganized.

With little public debate and zero legislative scrutiny, Canada has been in violation of its international commitments to refugees for over 135 days by banning refugee protection claimants entering Canada from the United States. At the same time, non-essential activities, such as entertainment, are being placed above the life, physical wellbeing, and liberty of people who are turning to Canada for protection. This demonstrates a disturbing point about Canada’s pandemic priorities.

Can China do much to fight back against the power wielded by the U.S. in the world economy? At first sight, that looks unlikely. China is big, but world trade is conducted in dollars, and the U.S. has economic, political and military influence across the globe. The usual result of a tally of U.S. might is that its position as hegemon is unassailable. But that would overlook how measures of its strength depend upon the world staying in the form that U.S. power has created since 1945. If it doesn’t, then these will not count for as much. As one might expect, China has been responding to U.S. attacks, and the outcome is likely to foment a split in the world economy.