Covid-19
China: end of zero covid?
Growing divisions in the party have forced a change of tack.
Freedom convoys: the far-right roadshow
The anti-vax movement took a new turn early this year with the launch of the freedom convoy.
We can live with an endemic Covid-19, but we don’t have to
By Reginald Banks Omicron is just the latest in a long list of variants to devastate the world and is by no means necessarily the last one. First discovered in South Africa, it became the dominant strain around the world with lightning speed. Daily cases in the UK reached a new peak of 160,000 a […]
Here’s to 2022 – for a revolutionary new year
Editorial December-January 2021-22, No. 389
Omicron: Boris Johnson is choosing profits over public health, again
By Dave Stockton Britain is experiencing yet another damaging outburst of coronavirus, this time the Omicron variant. Once again, leaving aside its apparent origin in South Africa, the UK is already leading the way in the speed of transmission. As a result France and Germany have imposed restrictions on travellers from the UK. Omicron cases […]
The return of Covid – public health before private wealth!
Omicron and vaccine mismanagement push pandemic into third year
Workers Expected to Pay for Worst Economic Crisis since 2008
By Tim Nailsea BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC growth has almost stalled because of shortages of labour in parts of industry and of material inputs, due to disruptions in the supply chain, coupled with the effects of Brexit. GDP grew by 0.4% in August but is still 0.8% below where it was in February 2020, before the country […]
Italy: fascists direct covid anger against trade unions
By KD Tait ON SATURDAY 16 October tens of thousands attended an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome, called by the CGIL trade union, in response to a fascist attack on the union’s headquarters the previous week. On 9 October thousands of people had attended a protest against the Green Pass, a covid passport which provides proof […]
Sleepwalking into Plan B?
Editorial November 2021, No. 388
Furlough end threatens 1 million jobs
Mass unemployment and the scourge of long-term joblessness have returned.
Bosses blame ‘pingdemic’ for market failures
Brexit and pandemic-induced shortages fuel demands for action on pay and conditions
Stop the third wave: no trade-off between lives and livelihoods
Coronavirus cases are surging once again.
India: vaccine free market let virus spread
The world's largest vaccine manufacturer is in India.
Only Brazil’s working class can solve the health, political and economic crises
3,000 deaths per day.
The fight for safe re-opening of schools goes on
A brief respite is being eroded by the government's failure to adequately fund safe schools
100,000 deaths and a year of government failures
We need a Zero Covid strategy
Bangladesh: Pandemic wreaks havoc on hyper-exploited garment workers
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers have lost their jobs.
The pandemic in Palestine
Israeli discrimination in vaccine distribution
Imperialist countries’ hoarding of vaccine risks prolonging the pandemic
Wealthiest countries hoarding vaccines.
Fight for workers’ control of the lockdown
The teachers' initiative is a model for workers to follow
Covid-19, Conspiracy Theories and Workers’ Resistance
Why do some people defy the public safety measures?
