Coronavirus
Tories fiddle figures to hide truth about virus death toll
17 August 2020The government’s estimate of the number of people in England who have died from coronavirus was last week reduced by more than 5,000—leading to a wave of suspicion that it was an attempt to manipulate the figures.
Is it inevitable there will be a rise in unemployment?
16 August 2020Job losses aren’t just about coronavirus. Sarah Bates says we need to fight for jobs and against a system that destroys them
Futures ruined by Tories’ rigged results
14 August 2020Class is trashing the lives of hundreds of thousands of students. The downgrading of swathes of A-Level students’ grades in England and Wales has exposed how the system operates to keep working class people in check.
Production continues as 300 workers test positive for Covid-19 at sandwich plant
14 August 2020Overpriced, pre-packaged sandwiches shouldn’t be a matter of life and death, but for Greencore factory workers that could be the case.
Take to streets against Tory exams injustice
13 August 2020The downgrading of student A-Level results across England and Wales is a disgraceful attack that has to be resisted.
Poorest show ‘early signs’ of malnutrition in coronavirus crisis
13 August 2020Poor people are in a food crisis—with many showing “early signs” of malnutrition.
Debenhams workers speak out after ‘heartbreaking’ redundancies’
11 August 2020Around 2,500 Debenhams workers were cruelly sacked by profiteering bosses on Tuesday, as the retail giant announced massive cuts in the department stores and warehouses.
End an unfair exam system
11 August 2020Class, not ability, determines what grades you get in school— and the exams fiasco in Scotland made that explicit.
All-female health staff group stages a two-day strike across India
11 August 2020Hundreds of thousands of workers held a two-day walkout last week as confirmed coronavirus cases in India passed two million
Face masks that didn’t fit, the tax haven, and who profited
11 August 2020Fifty million face masks purchased by the government from a private equity investment company can’t be used by the NHS because they failed to meet basic safety requirements.
Women’s lives are forgotten in pandemic
10 August 2020As schools are forced to close and childcare becomes less available the pressure on women as primary caregivers to children has greatly increased.Sarah Bates looks at why this is and talks to those bearing the brunt of this crisis
Tories try to justify an unsafe return to schools
10 August 2020Boris Johnson has made it his “national priority” to get all children back to school next month regardless of whether it is safe.
NHS pay fightback continues as thousands of health workers fill the streets
08 August 2020The NHS pay revolt took off on Saturday as thousands marched in towns and cities across Britain.
Testing flops and firms profit from the virus
06 August 2020The latest test and trace figures for England, released on Thursday, are another record of disaster.
Black coronavirus rates result of social and economic factors, not biology
06 August 2020Early in Britain’s Covid-19 crisis, when figures revealed that black people were dying at a disproportional rate, right wingers rushed to explain this as a biological trait. It was proof, they said, of inherent racial differences.
Tories’ dodgy tests will only spell more misery
03 August 2020The government is suggesting a second Covid-19 wave is about to hit Britain—but they aren’t doing nearly enough to prepare properly for a new onslaught.
Warnings at company at heart of Covid-19 spike
03 August 2020A logistics firm at the centre of a spike of coronavirus was slammed for poor health and safety at the beginning of the crisis.
Disastrous Tory policy endangers shielders
03 August 2020Government ministers have ‘paused’ a vital measure to protect the most vulnerable—without any evidence
Governments’ failures mean coronavirus accelerates across the world
02 August 2020The World Health Organisation recorded the highest daily number of new cases globally on Saturday.
Blame Tories not the poor for obesity and hunger
01 August 2020The rolling out of new measures to tackle obesity shames poor people and will not tackle a crisis that the Tories made worse, says Sarah Bates
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