The New York Times, the main media voice of the Democratic Party, praised the bipartisan congressional bill, headlining its editorial, "This Deal Is Good Enough." The Democrats and their media mouthpieces portray the bill as a temporary stopgap until the Biden administration takes office January 20, 2021. But Biden has no plans to alleviate the social conditions of masses of workers facing hunger, poverty, homelessness, disease and death in a winter that is likely to be the worst in living memory. He has flatly rejected a lockdown of nonessential businesses and the closure of schools, the only measures that can prevent a tidal wave of death before vaccinations are widely available to the American population.
Working people should not place their hopes in any section of the corporate elite, including the Democratic Party and the Biden administration. The only force that will defend workers' interests is the working class itself, organized as an independent political movement, fighting to enforce the closure of nonessential workplaces, with full income protection for affected workers and small businesses, until the pandemic is under control, and prepare a nationwide political general strike on the basis of a revolutionary socialist program.
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