Coronavirus
08 February 2021
A 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.
08 February 2021
Hundreds of workers in a dangerously overcrowded government workplace in Swansea met last week after threatening to strike.
08 February 2021
A 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
08 February 2021
A Met police officer has been given a final warning after tasering a man with mental distress nine times.
07 February 2021
Tory claims to have thrown a “protective ring around” care homes are in tatters after a report by the Care Quality Commission.
07 February 2021
Thanks 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).
06 February 2021
Sage care home workers in Golders Green, north London, staged lively picket lines on Saturday.
04 February 2021
A new study backs health workers’ claims that they are still being put in danger by not having access to the best protective equipment.
03 February 2021
Attacks on benefits have led to soaring mental health problems and more people taking their own lives.
02 February 2021
The Tories want us to think that a full and safe return to workplaces and schools is just around the corner. It's a lie.
02 February 2021
Farcical aspects aside, the row over the European Union’s vaccine supplies reveals the inability of the present system to manage the Covid-19 pandemic.
02 February 2021
Workers at a dangerously overcrowded government workplace in Swansea have said they are ready to strike over safety.
02 February 2021
Boris 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”.
01 February 2021
Asylum 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
30 January 2021
I work in a shipyard and we’ve been open throughout the Covid-19 lockdown.
29 January 2021
There 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
29 January 2021
Six prisoners are dying a week in English and Welsh prisons—nearly one a day.
27 January 2021
Black 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.
25 January 2021
Years 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.
25 January 2021
Workers are “scared” of catching Covid-19 in a major government office where more than 500 people have caught the virus thanks to uncaring bosses.