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Hundreds of council workers walked out against the Labour-run local authority’s “betrayal of key workers” during coronavirus

Suspected outbreaks of Covid-19 in workplaces in England almost doubled in the past week

Over a million and a half more people in Britain live in deep poverty today compared to 20 years ago

Doctors protested outside Downing Street on Tuesday to “highlight the risks of indoor spread”.

The coronavirus crisis is a profit-laden paradise for some pharmaceutical firms.

As coronavirus spreads through slaughterhouses in the US and Europe, Simon Basketter looks at how the drive for profit is to blame

The Tory plan to reopen businesses across England comes as Covid-19 continues to kill hundreds every week, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

The death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 128,000 in the US on Monday

More than half a million people across the world are now known to have died from coronavirus

Richard Horton, the longstanding editor of the medical journal The Lancet, is scathing about the establishment’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. He told Socialist Worker why.

The number of suspected coronavirus outbreaks in schools nearly doubled last week, according to figures from Public Health England (PHE). The news is a stark warning about how the Tory easing of the lockdown is putting health at risk.

Hardly noticed by most of the media, a new official report has revealed some of the deep inequalities in British society.