Coronavirus
17 March 2020
Boris 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.
17 March 2020
We’ve already learned two important things in the Covid-19 crisis. The first is that the future is here.
17 March 2020
Detainee rights organisations have said the Tories should “immediately release all immigration detainees”.
17 March 2020
The UCU union has delayed a planned reballot of workers for strikes due to the coronavirus crisis.
16 March 2020
Several groups of workers have taken the issue of coronavirus safety into their own hands.
15 March 2020
A wave of strikes has hit Italy, and further walkouts may be coming
14 March 2020
The Socialist Workers Party has made a statement calling for urgent measures to tackle the coronavirus crisis and protect people's lives
13 March 2020
Strikes and protests have won concessions from bosses and the state
10 March 2020
Bosses must not be allowed to make ordinary people pay for coronavirus or the chaos in the financial markets.
09 March 2020
As the number of coronavirus cases rises in Britain, Socialist Worker looks at what needs to be done to contain it
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.
08 March 2020
The coronavirus has raised sharp political issues in South Korea, says Jang Ho-jong
08 March 2020
The 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
18 February 2020
It is still too early to say how serious an epidemic Covid?19—as the latest coronavirus outbreak is now known—will prove to be.
11 February 2020
A mixture of apolocalyptic and racist headlines in Britain makes a rational response to the virus less likely
10 February 2020
Environmental changes mean more risk of viruses being passed from animals to humans says Yuri Prasad
02 February 2020
Students fear a rise in racism after the first British cases of coronavirus infection were revealed to be from their university.
24 January 2020
The spread of a virus in China worked the British rightwing press into a frenzy.