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Covid-19 Pandemic
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Billionaires profit from a pandemic!
By Haritha Olaganathan US billionaires saw their collective wealth increase by $282 billion in the first twenty-three days…
North: Meat workers take action to defend public health
by Daniel Waldron “If the disease was in the animals, they’d have closed the place. But for workers,…
Covid-19 crisis: Defend jobs, livings standards & public health
The scale and rapidity of job losses across the private and semi state sector arising from the necessary…
Mental health: We can’t tolerate the intolerable
by Eóin Dawson Over the course of the pandemic, there has been speculation about what impact the lockdown…
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…
Existential threat of climate change looms large
By Ben Samson While the world reels in the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the climate change…
Trump Inaction Fuels Disaster
By Tony Wilsdon, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) The threat posed by COVID-19 was not…
Why Covid-19 is not the “great leveller”
By Robert Cosgrave The horrific Covid-19 crisis has graphically exposed the multiple inequalities and forms of oppression that…
Covid-19 lockdown & gender-based violence
By Andrea Murray As the outbreak of Covid-19 began to take hold, experts warned of the risk of…
