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26 January 2022
UK Covid-19 mortality similar to Spanish Flu
The total number of UK Covid deaths has exceeded 150,000. Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider, reviewed by Socialist Party general secretary Hannah Sell (see socialistparty.org.uk), stated the number of
26 January 2022
Social care providers put profit before residents' needs - nationalise care now
Five years ago, I wrote for the Socialist explaining what it was like working in care, the limited time we had to get people washed, dressed, and to help them eat and drink.
19 January 2022
Oliver Campbell - 31 years fighting for justice
"I went into prison innocent. I came out innocent. And I've been innocent all the way through. I was put under pressure to confess to a crime I did not commit."
19 January 2022
No trust in Tories to keep us safe
For democratic workers' control of Covid safety: The self-isolation period after a positive Covid test has been reduced from seven days to five, with negative lateral flow tests on days five and six
19 January 2022
Employers use vaccine excuse to attack sick pay
Ikea has become the latest company to cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers who need to self-isolate because of Covid, and in some cases for workers who test positive.
19 January 2022
£299 million of PPE brought by the government during the pandemic has gone out of date. The early days of the pandemic were marked by health and care workers' struggles for face masks and other PPE. Now,
19 January 2022
Somers Forge workers continue pay strike
Workers at Somers Forge in Halesowen took their fourth day of strike action in their current dispute for a living pay increase - and also the fourth ever in the company's 155-year history!
12 January 2022
Low pay, stress and Covid drive: NHS staff crisis
Over 20 NHS trusts have declared critical incidents amidst staff shortages.
12 January 2022
Covid, stress and cutbacks fuel school staff shortages
Covid is running rampant and unchecked through many schools
12 January 2022
Bullying weighing room culture at the races
Horse racing, known as 'the sport of kings', has a long history. And for most of that time the jockeys were male, until the 1970s, in particular 1979, when women were allowed to become professional jockeys.
12 January 2022
Southampton student vote for online exams must be accepted
Covid cases are surging across university campuses. I've never known this many people who have tested positive.
12 January 2022
Jobcentre Coronavirus outbreak leads to reps meeting call
Just before Christmas a number of staff at the Mosley Street Jobcentre in Manchester contracted Coronavirus
12 January 2022
Shameless Johnson partied through lockdown
The proverb 'do as I say, not as I do' could have been written by Tory PM Boris Johnson during the course of the Covid pandemic.
6 January 2022
Union action needed for Covid safety
As we head into a new term, teachers are just as unimpressed by the Department for Education's performance as ever
6 January 2022
The number of NHS trusts which have declared critical incidents because of Covid staff shortages is into double figures and rising
6 January 2022
There is a shortage of Covid tests. You may have failed to book a pack of seven rapid lateral flow tests (LFTs), and people are struggling to books slots at PCR test centres.
15 December 2021
Unions must fight for Covid workplace safety
The last 18 months has seen a rising wave of workers' struggle for workplace safety, against fire and rehire and for pay rises.
15 December 2021
TV review: Vaccine Wars: The Truth About Pfizer
Nationalise the pharmaceutical giants: This Dispatches programme reveals the enormous profits made by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the lack of vaccines sent to poorer countries, and how Pfizer money helps spread misleading claims about rivals.
8 December 2021
Javid tells gps to drop health checks for elderly: Facing up to the potential effects of the new Omicron Covid variant, and anxious to avoid introducing further lockdown measures, the government has declared its mission to deliver a booster vaccine.
1 December 2021
Covid-19: New variant emerges but same old capitalist disease
New Covid-19 variants are inevitable but the threat to world health comes from profit-driven capitalism.
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