Coronavirus

Anti-Covid tablet is a bitter pill for the poor

New drugs with the potential to cut Covid hospitalisations and save many thousands of lives are about to hit the global market.

Outsourced Royal Parks workers strike and protest for pay equality

A striker said, 'You can see the majority of us are black and minority ethnic. And the majority of the trustees are white. It doesn’t look good does it?'

Don’t let surging Covid cases and deaths be normalised

As winter approaches, the Tories deadly Covid-19 policies are once again threatening to “let the bodies pile high”. The number of Covid-19 cases reached almost 50,000 on Monday—the highest reported since 17 July.

43,000 people given the wrong Covid test results

At least 43,000 people may have been wrongly given a negative Covid-19 test result, the UK Health Security Agency has said.

Oaks Park school workers fight on against victimisation

NEU union members are keeping up strikes and protests after management sacked a rep for urging Covid-19 safety action

Mould, cold and illness—the toll of Britain's housing crisis

Poor housing is affecting one in five renters’ health in England, according to housing charity Shelter.

Covid inquiry fails to lay blame for deaths

12 October 2021
A parliamentary inquiry has concluded that the handling of Covid-19 was “one of the most important public health failures the United Kingdom has ever experienced”. The MPs’ report essentially confirmed that the Tories sacrificed tens of thousands of lives with their fatal approach.

Unite must offer more support to the Weetabix strikers

12 October 2021
Engineers at Weetabix have continued strong strikes but now urgently need to escalate, reports Isabel Ringrose

Covid report finds deadly failings but lets Tories off the hook

12 October 2021
An MPs inquiry has confirmed that the Tories sacrificed tens of thousands of lives with their fatal handling of Covid-19.

New fights at the Royal Parks and at the DVLA + Facebook cleaners + Sage care home

11 October 2021
Outsourced cleaners working at a number of parks in central London protested at the Royal Parks Half Marathon on Sunday.

Driving examiners set to teach bosses a lesson + rail and bus battles

04 October 2021
Driving examiners are set to teach bosses a lesson

Thousands protest in Manchester at the Tory party conference

03 October 2021
The march, organised by the People's Assembly Against Austerity, attracted around 5,000 people including anti-racist, pro-Palestinian and trade union organisations

‘I’m terrified,’ say students on returning to universities

28 September 2021
British universities have started opening their doors and the Tories are insistent on in person teaching.

No job, no jab rules puts us all at risk

28 September 2021
Across the world, governments are ramping up class war by forcing people out of work if they haven’t been vaccinated against Covid. Socialist Worker says the new rules don’t protect people—they divert anger away from a ruling class that failed to protect people from the pandemic