A socialist response to the coronavirus crisis

2 June 2021

Capitalism's Covid failings

Its workers, not Cummings, who can expose them.
Read what was written in the Socialist, when responding to the crisis during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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26 May 2021

Our lives, our jobs, our future - Not safe in Tory hands

One law for them and one law for us. Nothing summed that up better than Dominic Cummings' trip to Barnard Castle during the first Covid lockdown.
Now the thieves have fallen out.

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14 April 2021

Covid inquiry? Workers must decide

Put Tories and capitalism in the dock: Boris Johnson has presided over a coronavirus catastrophe that has left over 127,000 people dead

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14 April 2021

'Covid passports' discriminatory and questionable - fight for workplace safety

The government hasn't yet clarified how 'passports' would work, but the dangers are apparent.

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16 December 2020

Mass testing - we need trade union oversight and full pay for all

How effective are the resources being put into testing?

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9 December 2020

Covid vaccines only first step - fight job losses, austerity and 'virus' of capitalism

Covid-19 vaccines in record-breaking times have raised hopes that life will return to normal

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21 October 2020

Health before profit - Work or full pay

Fear about catching coronavirus, being thrown out of work, being forced to stay at home without enough money ... Yet again it's working-class people who are paying the price.

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14 October 2020

Locked down, hard up - Fight back!

* Work or full pay
* Health before profit
As areas across the country face further lockdown measures there is growing frustration, anger and anxiety.

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14 October 2020

Under the microscope

Coronavirus news in brief.

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7 October 2020

Massive testing 'glitch' caused by privatised fragmentation

15,841 positive Covid-19 results were mislaid

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30 September 2020

Covid restrictions expose Tory splits

For democratic working-class control of health and safety

While government ministers warn of an exponential rise of the coronavirus, the same magnitude of rise could be applied to the level of anger against them over their handling of the pandemic.

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23 September 2020

Testing shambles: unions must fight back

The government claims that testing for key workers in the NHS, care and schools is provided.

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23 September 2020

North East lockdown: simmering anger at Tory incompetence

Around two million people have coronavirus restrictions imposed.

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23 September 2020

Tory Covid chaos

To the surprise of absolutely no one, given the disastrous Tory record so far, we face a new Covid peak this autumn. And Johnson's amendments to the Covid laws solve none of the threats to our lives and livelihoods.

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16 September 2020

Sketch: The rule of six - some guidance from your government

"As a guideline, if you aren't at school or work, then any breach of the rule will kill your gran"

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9 September 2020

Safety overridden in drive to bolster the economy

Even as cases of Covid-19 infections are rising dramatically, the Tories are desperately trying to get workers back to their workplaces and spending money in city centres.

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8 September 2020

Fight the schools Covid crisis

Schools have gone back overcrowded and under-resourced, with more infections reported daily.

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2 September 2020

Welfare after Covid-19

Between February and June 2020 the number of claims for Universal Credit doubled

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5 August 2020

Tories' obesity plans - blaming individuals not the profit system

First, the elderly were told to shield from Covid-19. Then, statistics revealed a disproportionate number of people from ethnic minorities were dying from the virus. Now, obesity is being linked to a serious risk of fatality from the virus.

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5 August 2020

Capitalism's 'vaccine war' shows need for socialist cooperation

Covid-19 can travel round the world at jet speed. No one can feel secure without global action. Yet despite gushing words from government leaders about international cooperation on research and development, a 'vaccine war' is developing.

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