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Coronavirus: A Workers' charter 2020

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THE SOCIALIST PARTY SAYS

Confidence plummets in Tory strategy for Covid-19

20 May
Workers must build workplace and political resistance
Boris Johnson's speech on 10 May was a watershed moment in the Covid-19 crisis More...

CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC

NEWS AND SOCIALIST ANALYSIS

20 May 2020

Johnson's reckless 'back to school' plans threaten everyone's safety

School workers are in the front line of the government's unsafe back-to-work strategy - but they and parents are organising a huge resistance More...

22 May 2020

Black and Asian Covid-19 deaths: an indictment of capitalist inequality

The figures for Covid-19 coronavirus deaths broken down by ethnicity caused widespread shock and anger More...

13 May 2020

Pandemic shortages caused by capitalist market - socialist planning is the alternative

With planning, key products like ventilators and PPE should have been easy to provide More...

More news and analysis...

REPORTS AND CAMPAIGNS

22/5/20 Obituary

Mick Cotter

Mick Cotter 21-9-57 to 20-5-20 It is with great sadness and regret that the Socialist Party has lost a dedicated comrade and friend of many members More...

22/5/20 Rolls Royce

Strong union response needed against job cuts Rolls Royce's plan to cut 9,000 jobs will impact on its UK civil aerospace division More...

20/5/20 NSSN

Organising to fight for workplace safety Workers called for safety before profit in a big NSSN meeting More...

20/5/20 CWU

Postal workers' action results in double victory for union Postal workers are celebrating seeing the back of CEO Rico Back More...

19/5/20 Coronavirus

Transport workers and passengers mustn't pay the price The Tories are trying to force workers back to work More...

More reports and campaigns...

The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party

The Socialist newspaper, 20 May 2020, issue 1087

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The Socialist issue 1087 front page: Rich get handouts - workers get pay cuts

spot Confidence plummets in Tory strategy for Covid-19

Resist school reopening

spot Staff and parents fight 'back to school' plans

Make transport safe

spot Transport workers & passengers mustn't pay the price

Socialist Party news and analysis

spot Rich get handouts - workers get pay cuts

spot Contract tracer speaks out: Tories' plan is outsourced chaos

spot Crisis in council services: Labour must fight or stand aside

spot Furlough cut-off could force millions back to unsafe workplaces

spot Safe protests against Tory corona chaos continue

spot Johnson claims workplaces safe but HSE cancels inspections

Workplace news and analysis

spot Postal workers' action results in double victory for union

spot Trade unionists organise to fight for workplace safety in big NSSN meeting

spot Posties walk out in Peterborough after manager tests positive

spot Universal Basic Income: not a solution to insecurity and poverty under capitalism

Readers' opinion

spot The Jungle: capitalism's remorseless attack on workers' safety and conditions

spot Going viral: letters to the editors

spot Obituary: Rob Crabb

International socialist news and analysis

spot Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race

The Socialist newspaper, 13 May 2020, issue 1086

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The Socialist issue 1086

What we think

spot Stay alert to bosses putting profit before safety

spot Tories put profit before lives - unions must stand firm on workplace safety

spot Furlough scheme extended - workers need 100% of wages

Schools

spot No going back to unsafe schools

Workplace news

spot Dispatches from the front: bosses prepare fresh attacks on NHS

spot Transport union RMT tells members: refuse to work in unsafe conditions

spot Leicester care workers face pay cut and worse conditions

spot West Midlands trade union activists discuss the battle for safety on the front line

Spanish flu 1918

spot The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it "fanned the flames of revolt"

Lessons from history

spot A new world order - global reconstruction after World War Two

spot 'Victory in Europe' 75th anniversary: A resurgent workers' movement and the fight for socialism

Socialist planning

spot Pandemic shortages caused by capitalist market - socialist planning is the alternative

Campaigns

spot Safe social-distancing car-cavalcade protests

spot Starmer in full retreat over C-19 rents crisis

Readers' opinion

spot Johnson's plan terrifies me - readers react to lifting lockdown

spot Going Viral: Socialist comments and letters on the corona crisis

The Socialist newspaper, 6 May 2020, issue 1085

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The Socialist issue 1085

What we think

spot Bosses push to lift lockdown - they only care about profits

Coronavirus news

spot Dispatches from the NHS front

spot Bail out the real wealth creators, not the rich

spot Homes needed to end overcrowding

spot Homeless left on streets during pandemic

spot Pay full fees for virtual courses? - No way!

spot Your donations can keep the Socialist going

Test and trace

spot Test and trace: workers need a real plan

spot Tories using pandemic to shift lab testing out of NHS

Workplace news

spot Nationalise British Airways to stop 12,000 redundancies

spot Postal workers force Royal Mail back

spot No increase in transport capacity without adequate safety precautions for workers and passengers

spot Unsafe Workplace? "It's up to you" PCS tells reps and members

spot Further protests in Ireland against Debenhams closures - UK fightback needed

spot Rolls Royce threatens 8,000 job losses

spot EDF Energy workers furloughed on 100% pay

International news

spot India: Fighting the curse of capitalism and coronavirus

spot US: Trump's public health cuts have condemned thousands worldwide

spot Trump puts profit before safety (again)

Lessons from history

spot The Tyneside apprentices' strike during WW2

Obituary

spot Peter Hadden remembered

Readers' opinion

spot Going viral: Socialist comments and letters on the corona crisis

spot TV Review BBC Panorama: PPE shortage - how many lives will be lost?

The Socialist newspaper, 29 April 2020, issue 1084

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The Socialist issue 1084

Coronavirus news

spot Workers' safety before bosses' profits

spot Dispatches from the front: PPE chaos goes on

spot Private firm causes weeks of delay to free school meal vouchers: bring it back in-house!

Lessons from history

spot No return to the 1930s: World War Two and 'a land fit for heroes'

May Day

spot May Day 2020: join the protests - wear red, bring flags and banners

spot 130 Years of May Day in Britain: Fight for workers' rights more relevant than ever

spot May Day greetings pull out 2020

Workplace news

spot Workers fighting to defend safety and livelihoods - NSSN national meeting a huge success

spot Civil servants in Paisley protest after Covid outbreak

spot Irish police use Covid-19 emergency powers to disperse Dublin shop workers' protest

spot B&M Bargains management puts profit before safety

spot Schools: No return without a national union agreement that guarantees safety!

spot Unions must organise throughout crisis

spot Waltham Forest trade unions discuss the fight for PPE and workplace safety

spot Woolwich ferry - workers www 100% furlough agreement

spot ISS workers' pay victory

Organising during coronavirus

spot Should the Socialist still be produced during the Corona crisis? An exchange with Mark Serwotka about sales of the Socialist

spot Coronavirus crisis finance appeal

spot Adding demands to the weekly claps

Readers' opinion

spot Going viral: Socialist comments and letters

The Socialist newspaper, 22 April 2020, issue 1083

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The Socialist issue 1037

Frontline workers speak out

spot Where's our PPE? Where's our testing? Where's our money?

spot London bus drivers' action over safety stops front door boarding

spot Care homes coronavirus scandal: blood on their hands

spot PPE shortages: "I feel so bloody angry"

spot Trade union activists from across the south of England discuss the battle for safety on the frontline

spot Management tells carers PPE would 'worry' residents

spot Councils must demand control of supplies and reversal of austerity

spot More dispatches from the front: 'There are so many more patients dying'

World economy

spot World economic crisis: A Marxist approach to the coronavirus crunch

spot No 'back to school' until outbreak is under control and trade union agreed safety arrangements

spot DWP: Action on workers' safety, and protection of pay and conditions needed

spot JD Sports: Shut up shop and give us full pay!

spot RMT: Lift the suspension of Steve Hedley

spot Bromley Libraries 'restructure' in middle of pandemic!

Lenin at 150

spot Lenin at 150: A revolutionary life - and the relevance of his ideas to today's working-class struggles

Coronavirus news

spot National plan for testing needed

spot Capitalist press attacks Tory incompetence

spot Tory think tank proposes attack on pensions

spot Shocking increase in domestic violence killings

spot US private healthcare system in meltdown

spot Coronavirus news in brief

Workplace safety

spot The history of struggle to make the workplace safe

Campaigns

spot Excellent support for Socialist Party special appeal

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party

spot Clapping, driving, postering - for workers' rights

spot The role of the Socialist during the corona crisis

spot Policies that really protect the NHS

spot Coronavirus: Students' charter

spot Socialism the Podcast: What do our listeners think?

Readers' opinion

spot Covid-19 patient speaks out: fantastic support from under-resourced health workers

spot Going viral: Socialist comments and letters

The Socialist newspaper, 15 April 2020, issue 1082

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The Socialist issue 1082

Coronavirus news

spot MPs get £10k each for lockdown expenses - where's ours?

spot Dispatches from the front: NHS staff say give us PPE, not medals!

spot Johnson's hospitalisation: a tale of two treatments

spot Big pharma's profiteering holds back drug supply

spot Lockdown increases domestic violence calls - Tory money a drop in the ocean

spot NHS nurse: we're not wasting PPE - the Tories don't value us

spot Rapacious capitalism and the spread of coronavirus

What we think

spot Exit strategy? PPE and mass testing and workers' control of workplace safety

spot Fight back against the corona propaganda war

Transport

spot London Transport workers fighting private companies and TfL to www health and safety

Workplace news

spot Unite opposes all cuts to domestic violence services

spot Passport workers forced back to offices as Home Office shirks its duty of care

spot Collectively demanding safe warehouse working conditions

spot Usdaw shop workers' union activists meet via Zoom

spot Coronavirus workplace news in brief

spot Sabotage - the inner workings of Labour's political machine exposed

Campaigns

spot Plymouth students discuss rent strike

spot Final push for May Day greetings

spot Socialist Party coronavirus crisis finance appeal

spot Join an online Socialist Party meeting during lockdown

spot The Socialist Party and socialist ideas are growing

Lessons from history

spot How the catastrophe of WW1 sparked revolution

Readers' opinion

spot Going viral: Socialist comments on the corona crisis

The Socialist newspaper, 8 April 2020, issue 1081

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The Socialist issue 1081

What we think

spot Tory lies cost lives

spot End of the Corbyn era - Organise to fight for socialist policies

spot Workers take action while union leaders call truce with government and bosses

International news

spot Coronavirus: Amazon workers threaten revolution!

spot Coronavirus, capitalism and fighting for socialism worldwide

Coronavirus news

spot Dispatches from the front: shortages of NHS staff, equipment - and union leadership

spot Expired PPE relabelled for NHS use

spot The minimum wage must go up! Fund coronavirus workers, not bosses' profits!

spot Capitalism causes crisis profiteering: fight for workers' oversight and public ownership

spot Under the microscope: Pandemic news in brief

Workplace news

spot Where's the PPE Welsh Assembly?

spot EE puts workers' health and safety at risk

spot Things will never be the same again

spot Anger as London local authorities bulldoze through powers to discipline workers

spot A day in the life of a frontline worker

spot Victory for Medway bin workers

spot Socialists in Unite meet via Zoom: Struggles continue in the workplaces

World War Two

spot Class collaboration and worker militancy in World War Two Britain

Campaigns

spot Labour leadership election: Starmer wins but the fight for socialism goes on

spot Coronavirus crisis finance appeal

spot May Day greetings: we need to fund independent workers' media now more than ever

spot Getting the Socialist out safely under lockdown

Readers' opinion

spot Going viral

The Socialist newspaper, 1 April 2020, issue 1080

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The Socialist issue 1080

Coronavirus news

spot NHS workers speak out: austerity has left us unprepared

spot Schools: union oversight needed to end chaos in provision under coronavirus

spot Councils must use resources now for emergency response

spot NHS supply chain worker: privatisation has cut equipment quantity and quality

spot Self-isolation class divide: decent homes for all!

spot Fully fund hospices to care for vulnerable children

spot Scandalous conditions in food distribution centre

spot Coronavirus news in brief

World War Two

spot All in this together? The 'Blitz spirit' myth

What we think

spot PPE, tests, full pay - for all now

spot Labour must resist 'Covid coalition': Workers need their own voice and party

spot Emergency legislation: Trade unions must be on guard against attacks on workers' interests

Food supply and the coronavirus crisis

spot Capitalism means empty shelves, food insecurity, and soaring profits - the case for a socialist alternative

Workplace news

spot Key workers should make bold demands

spot Essential workers deserve more

spot Working in Mike Ashley's empire: After lockdown we won't forget how we've been treated

spot Hull construction workers force bosses to shut down site over health and safety fears

spot Bosses concede to walkouts in Northern Ireland

spot Bus drivers halt sackings - now restore our pay

spot Postal workers walk out over health, safety and junk mail

spot Working from home during the pandemic

spot Leicester: Nylacast worker exposes truth

spot Refuse collection workers strike

Benefits

spot Fight for safety, staffing and services - Covid chaos for benefits claimants

spot More than ever, we need accountable union leaders

Campaigns

spot Help us continue to fight for workers and socialism

spot Building the Socialist Party

Readers' opinion

spot Going viral - Socialist letters and comments on the coronavirus crisis

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