Coronavirus
Tories lurch from chaos to crisis to help bosses
17 March 2020Boris Johnson signalled a shift in the Tories’ approach to coronavirus on Monday. It follows growing anger at the government response. But the Tories are still putting ordinary people at risk.
Rulers want to cure capitalism of virus
17 March 2020We’ve already learned two important things in the Covid-19 crisis. The first is that the future is here.
Demand to open detention centres over coronavirus sickness fears
17 March 2020Detainee rights organisations have said the Tories should “immediately release all immigration detainees”.
Keep up the ‘four fights’ after success of university strikes
17 March 2020The UCU union has delayed a planned reballot of workers for strikes due to the coronavirus crisis.
Anger over unsafe work conditions spurs some coronavirus strikes
16 March 2020Several groups of workers have taken the issue of coronavirus safety into their own hands.
Italian worker says ‘we are ready to fight’ for coronavirus action
15 March 2020A wave of strikes has hit Italy, and further walkouts may be coming
Coronavirus—‘We need emergency action’
14 March 2020The Socialist Workers Party has made a statement calling for urgent measures to tackle the coronavirus crisis and protect people's lives
Italian workers fight to shape response to coronavirus
13 March 2020Strikes and protests have won concessions from bosses and the state
Workers must not pay for the corona crash
10 March 2020Bosses must not be allowed to make ordinary people pay for coronavirus or the chaos in the financial markets.
Tories fail to take action we need on coronavirus
09 March 2020As the number of coronavirus cases rises in Britain, Socialist Worker looks at what needs to be done to contain it
Bosses’ virus fears are only for profits
09 March 2020“New data paint grim picture of coronavirus fallout,” read a headline in the Financial Times newspaper last week. My heart sank when I saw it. But when I anxiously scanned the article, it wasn’t about the spread of the coronavirus or the deaths it is causing.
South Korean socialist says, ‘Our government protects profit, not people’
08 March 2020The coronavirus has raised sharp political issues in South Korea, says Jang Ho-jong
Covid-19 - a virus that exposes the system’s failures
08 March 2020The coronavirus, like all serious epidemics, reveals capitalism’s priorities and shows us why it cannot protect us. Socialist and scientist John Parrington talked to Socialist Worker about the current crisis
Coronavirus shows capitalism is sick
18 February 2020It is still too early to say how serious an epidemic Covid?19—as the latest coronavirus outbreak is now known—will prove to be.
Panic measures and racism are no cure for coronavirus
11 February 2020A mixture of apolocalyptic and racist headlines in Britain makes a rational response to the virus less likely
Drive for profit benefits the spread of disease
10 February 2020Environmental changes mean more risk of viruses being passed from animals to humans says Yuri Prasad
York students say they won’t be divided by coronavirus fears
02 February 2020Students fear a rise in racism after the first British cases of coronavirus infection were revealed to be from their university.
Lockdown and panic won’t stop spread of virus in China
24 January 2020The spread of a virus in China worked the British rightwing press into a frenzy.
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- Covid-19 vaccine—who will be to blame if the poor are again left to die?
- So who was Trump really?
- Black and Asian workers hit hardest by pandemic job losses
- ‘It’s profit over health always’—workers forced into unsafe workplaces speak out
- Action over Grenfell materials is too little, too late
- British Gas workers take to picket lines over ‘fire and rehire’
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