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The coronavirus crisis has exposed political leaders as wanting. The systematic bungling by Boris Johnson’s government is summed up by the fact that he, his health secretary and the chief medical adviser have all tested positive for the virus.

Action by workers has shown the type of ­resistance that’s possible against bosses who force them to work in unsafe conditions during the coronavirus outbreak.

Weeks after the government insisted the shortage of personal protective equipment was being resolved, doctors and nurses are getting ill, and some die because they still can’t get it

Hospitals have started rationing ventilators for patients as the coronavirus death toll rises.

Workers have suffered repression and evictions to try and stop the spread of the virus, but there has also been fightback in the form of strikes.

‘I shook hands with everybody’

The NHS failed a test of its ability to withstand a major pandemic more than three years ago but the results were not made public.

Tube workers in London are furious at being asked to risk their health by working in unsafe conditions as the coronavirus crisis grows.

Why is the NHS failing to get the right protective equipment to health workers coming face to face with the coronavirus?

In Greece overcrowded refugee camps on islands in the Aegean sea have been put on lockdown.

The Development of vaccines is conditional on what big business wants, not the needs of people

We’ve already learned two important things in the Covid-19 crisis. The first is that the future is here.