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Medical workers from Beijing walk near a park during a day off as the city of Wuhan slowly loosens up ahead of a lifting of the two month long lockdown in central China's Hubei province
MORE than 230 political parties from over 100 countries have signed a statement calling for international solidarity and co-operation to beat the global coronavirus pandemic.
Initiated by the Communist Party of China, the joint open letter paid tribute to all those who devote themselves to saving lives and protecting people’s health. It also extended “heartfelt sympathies and solicitude” to the families of the bereaved.
But the letter warned that if the disease is not “effectively and promptly contained, it will inflict even greater harm to the lives, safety and health of many more people.”
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS