
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.

Bernie Sanders is out of the race, a punch to the gut for many who hoped his campaign would offer a way forward. But it’s also a turning point. For millions, this will be the last time they try to work within the two-party system of the capitalists.

A perfect storm of private sector profiteering, reckless production practices, environmental destruction and underinvestment in medical research has made global pandemics more common, and undermined our capacity to deal with them.