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The Tory government is giving the police extra powers to enforce the lockdown. Yet profiteering bosses are getting away with murder. Workers should trust only themselves to maintain safety in workplaces and local communities.
Socialist Appeal recently spoke to Paul Murphy, Irish TD (MP) for Dublin South-West, who discussed the need to fight back against the bosses and big businesses that are attempting to profit from the COVID-19 crisis.
Today is ‘National Posties Day’. Postal workers have offered themselves as an emergency service during the lockdown, and there have been walkouts against unsafe conditions at Royal Mail. We spoke to one CWU member about these events.
Across the country today, a minute’s silence was held to remember those workers who have lost their lives to the coronavirus. It is the Tories and the bosses who are responsible for these deaths. The trade union leaders must organise a fightback.
Quarantine is a living nightmare for those facing domestic abuse. Yet again, it is the most vulnerable in society who are suffering the hardest during this crisis. Capitalism cannot provide safety for ordinary people.
Thousands are silently dying in UK care homes, ignored by this callous Tory government. And care workers are being put in the firing line, provided with no PPE. We need a social care system that is fully funded and publicly owned.
Having run his airline into the ground, Richard Branson is going cap-in-hand to the Tory government. Parasite bosses like Branson have already stolen too much from us, nationalise to protect workers.
For many trapped at home, quarantine is an opportunity to broaden horizons. We publish part two of our list of some of the best political films to occupy the time during the lockdown.
Keir Starmer’s leadership victory was met with jubilation by the Blairites. These gangsters have actively conspired against the election of a Labour government. We must clear out these saboteurs and fight against any return to Blairism.
New Labour leader ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer has been notable by his absence in recent weeks. Yet he has earnt plaudits from establishment commentators for providing ‘credible opposition’. No wonder – he is bankrolled by big business.
Years of austerity, privatisation, and bureaucratic management have eroded the foundations of Britain’s public healthcare system. Patients, staff, and wider society have been left vulnerable in the face of the pandemic. Fight to save our NHS!
The higher education sector has not been immune from the impact of the pandemic. As in other workplaces, university bosses are attempting to make workers pay for this crisis. We must fight to drive out the scourge of outsourcing.