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23 February 2022
Canada: Prime Minister Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act to end 'Freedom Convoy'
On 14 February, Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency measures to deal with the 'Freedom Trucker Convoy' protests against mandatory Covid-19 vaccination.
2 February 2022
NHS mandatory vaccination to be ditched
Ministers have announced plans to scrap the order forcing all NHS staff in England to get vaccinated against Covid
19 January 2022
Tory vaccine sacking threat set to deepen NHS staffing crisis
86,000 NHS staff face the sack in April if they do not have the Covid-19 vaccine.
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.
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.
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.
24 November 2021
Tories responsible for NHS staff shortages
Health secretary Sajid Javid has announced that vaccinations will be made mandatory for health service workers in England by the spring.
17 November 2021
Health and care staff shortages worsened by Tory vaccine sacking threat
To add fuel to the fire of the staffing crisis in social care, the government's punitive 'no jab, no job policy' has now come into effect in England.
3 November 2021
Vaccine inequality - the ugly face of capitalism
While a majority of adults in the advanced capitalist countries of Europe and North America have been fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, in low-income countries of the 'global south' only 1.4% of people had received one dose as of September 2021
11 August 2021
Big-pharma vaccine price hike: Big-pharma bosses can't be trusted. After many firms taking public money for vaccine development or promising to take "marginal" profits, they are now raising prices. Pfizer have raised vaccine prices
23 June 2021
Sacking non-vaccinated care workers will not save lives
The Tories' announcement that care home workers will have to be vaccinated to retain their jobs is a deliberate, if somewhat botched, attempt to distract attention from their appalling safety record on Covid-19
16 June 2021
A truly capitalist donation: The G7's pledge to donate 1 billion vaccine doses isn't as generous as the media is painting it. Truthfully, it makes me sick. The G7 countries have been actively blocking efforts to suspend vaccine
16 June 2021
Make vaccine technology public, nationalise big-pharma
G7 vaccine promises fall short: G7 leaders have pledged to donate 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine to poorer countries by the end of 2022. Boris Johnson's Tory government, for its part, has pledged 100 million doses.
19 May 2021
Capitalism responsible for stark global Covid vaccine inequality
The pandemic hasn't just exposed the class divide here in the UK. It's also brought many tensions and inequalities between nations in an already fractured world to the surface.
31 March 2021
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24 February 2021
Vaccine algorithm can't solve capitalist inequality
Eleven months after coronavirus restrictions came into force in England, another 800,000 people are being informed by the government that they need to 'shield' as they are at an increased risk of dying from the effects of the virus
10 February 2021
Question mark over AstraZeneca's vaccine to protect against new Covid variant
The Johnson government's much-trumpeted Covid vaccine roll-out programme has taken a knock.
3 February 2021
Covid 'vaccine wars' underline failure of capitalist nation states to deal with the global pandemic
The European Commission was forced into a humiliating climbdown
27 January 2021
Overwhelmed, underfunded, underpaid, and still fighting for safe PPE
On the front line we're seeing whole wards being wiped out with staff sickness. In my own trust, at the start of January, there was approximately 9% staff absence.
27 January 2021
Health, Covid and the vaccine: It's a class issue
It turns out that having a National Health Service comes in useful during a major pandemic.
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