Coronavirus
‘We held system together,’ says sacked Test and Trace worker
08 February 2021A private firm has fired hundreds of NHS Test and Trace workers despite warnings that the system should remain a vital part of controlling Covid-19.
It’s time to use Section 44 at the DVLA in Swansea
08 February 2021Hundreds of workers in a dangerously overcrowded government workplace in Swansea met last week after threatening to strike.
Tories run aground on their own privatisation of the NHS
08 February 2021A leaked copy of the government’s plans to “reform” the health service in the wake of the pandemic led to some far-fetched headlines last weekend
The Troublemaker—Cop tasers ill man nine times
08 February 2021A Met police officer has been given a final warning after tasering a man with mental distress nine times.
Damning report exposes Tory care home lies
07 February 2021Tory claims to have thrown a “protective ring around” care homes are in tatters after a report by the Care Quality Commission.
LETTERS - Individual acts over safety can become collective resistance
07 February 2021Thanks for printing my letter on the NEU union’s groundbreaking advice to teachers to use Section 44 of the 1996 Employment Rights Act to refuse to work because of Covid-19 (Letters, 27 January).
‘We won’t roll over and take it,’ say Sage care home strikers in north London
06 February 2021Sage care home workers in Golders Green, north London, staged lively picket lines on Saturday.
Health workers’ lives put in danger by official PPE guidelines, study shows
04 February 2021A new study backs health workers’ claims that they are still being put in danger by not having access to the best protective equipment.
Damning study shows attacks on benefits have terrible toll on mental health
03 February 2021Attacks on benefits have led to soaring mental health problems and more people taking their own lives.
Vaccines don’t mean it’s the end of the virus
02 February 2021The Tories want us to think that a full and safe return to workplaces and schools is just around the corner. It's a lie.
Vaccine nationalism will endanger us all
02 February 2021Farcical aspects aside, the row over the European Union’s vaccine supplies reveals the inability of the present system to manage the Covid-19 pandemic.
Staff could strike over coronavirus safety at Swansea DVLA
02 February 2021Workers at a dangerously overcrowded government workplace in Swansea have said they are ready to strike over safety.
Labour pushes for a return to schools
02 February 2021Boris Johnson has said that schools in England could fully reopen from 8 March. But Johnson said this would depend “on lots of things going right”.
Tories lock refugees in a coronavirus ‘breeding ground’
01 February 2021Asylum seekers held at an ex-army camp in Kent have protested against the appalling conditions they’ve been kept in during the Covid-19 pandemic
Letters—Bosses ignoring our safety to keep shipyard open
30 January 2021I work in a shipyard and we’ve been open throughout the Covid-19 lockdown.
Vicious racist history feeds fear of Covid-19 vaccine
29 January 2021There are fears that some black people will reject the Covid-19 vaccine. Socialist Worker looks at how abhorrent treatment at the hands of the state and doctors is to blame
Prison death figures reveal terrible toll of Tories’ ‘law and order’ rhetoric
29 January 2021Six prisoners are dying a week in English and Welsh prisons—nearly one a day.
Tory vaccine rollout fails black and Asian people despite higher risk of death
27 January 2021Black and Asian people have died from coronavirus in disproportionate numbers because of disastrous Tory policies and systematic racism. And now it’s emerged that NHS England hadn’t even been counting how many had have been vaccinated.
‘Years of cuts hinder the roll out,’ says NHS vaccine worker
25 January 2021Years of NHS cuts and Tory mismanagement of the pandemic are slowing down efforts to vaccinate people in one of the areas hardest hit by Covid-19.
Over 500 Covid-19 cases at DVLA Swansea
25 January 2021Workers are “scared” of catching Covid-19 in a major government office where more than 500 people have caught the virus thanks to uncaring bosses.
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