Spear staff

Editors Note: This article was submitted to The Burning Spear by the Visit Palestine email newsletter.

The lockdown imposed by the South African government on the people as a response to the global Coronavirus pandemic has proven to be worsening our colonial misery as the African working class, more specifically for us as women.

The devastation caused by the colonialvirus, also known as COVID-19, to the African community in Philadelphia has been staggering.

This is the accusation in a lawsuit filed by three inmates in a Michigan prison where ten people have died of COVID-19 as of April 13, 2020.

HAITI—2019 marked the end of the colonial ‘cholera’ crisis that plagued Haiti. Haiti faced a reported total of 820,000 cholera cases and just 200 deaths short of 10,000.

Just as the colonial COVID-19 virus is wreaking devastation on the oppressed and exploited African community inside this country, the Indigenous people are also catching hell. 

A simple device that clips on to your finger could save your life from the dangerous COVID-19 pneumonia, according to an article in The New York Times on April 20. 

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian has suggested that the U.S. military may have unleashed COVID-19 in Wuhan.

On March 11, 2020 the U.S. imperialist-backed World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions.