2 June 2020

Bristol North Socialist Party: Lessons from Aids for Coronavirus

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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

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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

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20 May 2020

Confidence plummets in Tory strategy for Covid-19

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

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20 May 2020

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

None of the schemes with elements of UBI provide a decent level of income

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20 May 2020

Going viral: letters to the editors

Letter to the editors: NHS, schools, anti-lockdown protests and more

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20 May 2020

Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race

Trump's administration has still failed to mobilise an effective response to the pandemic

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20 May 2020

Johnson claims workplaces safe but HSE cancels inspections

The prime minister has told anxious workers that construction, manufacturing and food workplaces will be "Covid-compliant"

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20 May 2020

Safe protests against Tory corona chaos continue

More car cavalcades have taken place to protest against Tory mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis and cuts, with the latest in Southwark and Newham

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20 May 2020

Furlough cut-off could force millions back to unsafe workplaces

Will my boss starve me back to work this summer? It's a question that might start keeping furloughed workers up at night

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20 May 2020

Crisis in council services: Labour must fight or stand aside

A £10 billion financial black hole faces councils, according to a Labour Party report

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20 May 2020

Rich get handouts - workers get pay cuts

Make the rich pay for the Covid crisis: Some of the richest people in the country are getting huge government handouts because of coronavirus. Meanwhile, millions are poorer as a result of the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic

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20 May 2020

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

Fiction review: The parallels between Upton Sinclair's description of 1906 meat packaging factories and workplaces under coronavirus are frightening

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19 May 2020

Transport workers and passengers mustn't pay the price

The Tories are trying to force workers back to work

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18 May 2020

Communities condemn Tory handling of crisis - with safe protests

Car cavalcades took place in Sheffield and Haringey.

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18 May 2020

Contract tracer speaks out: Tories' plan is outsourced chaos

The government's new contact tracing scheme is outsourced to Serco - which subcontracted recruitment to Capita, writes a NHS contact tracer.

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18 May 2020

Parents - Organise against 'back to school' plans that threaten everyone's safety

Schools simply can't open safely yet to more children.

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14 May 2020

West London Socialist Party: Closed until further notice; arts and culture after coronavirus

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13 May 2020

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

Laura Spinney's book on the 1918 flu pandemic, first published in 2017, is now being widely read

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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

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