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Coronavirus
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Pharma companies “drowning in vaccines” while millions of unvaccinated suffer and die
By Dan O’Rourke A recent headline on a prominent African news outlet read “Africa needs a billion Covid…
Irish government fails to protect healthcare workers
By Valerie O’Leary The proportion of healthcare workers contracting Covid-19 in Ireland is amongst the highest in the…
Covid-19: Capitalism Rushes to Re-Open as Pandemic Grows
By Bill Hopwood, ISA Canada Around the world, countries are lifting the restrictions that were introduced to contain…
North: The way forward for hospitality workers
By Neil Moore, Regional Hospitality Organiser, Unite (personal capacity) January 2020 was a simpler time. Workers in the…
North: Working-class solidarity in a time of crisis
“THESE ARE the times that try men’ souls. You will no doubt hear a great number of stories…
Sweden and Covid-19: “Corona strategy” failed to protect the vulnerable & elderly
By Jonas Brännberg (Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna- our sister organisation in Sweden) Three months have passed since the corona pandemic…
Covid-19 crisis and the ideology of individualism
By Dan O’Rourke Before the pandemic, it would have been difficult for many to imagine neo-liberal and right-wing…
Covid-19, Disaster Capitalism & the Urgent Case for Socialism
By Eddie McCabe & Keishia Taylor, from the Summer 2020 edition of Socialist Alternative, the political journal of…
Class inequality & COVID-19
By Dean O’Donnell While responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have varied from country to country, one common thread…
Trump Inaction Fuels Disaster
By Tony Wilsdon, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) The threat posed by COVID-19 was not…
