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Iran & Covid-19: Trump’s criminal sanctions amount to biological warfare

By Dean O’Donnell 2020 got off to an alarming start with the US government assasination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. An act of imperialist aggression and the result of escalating tensions between both states, it posed a direct threat of war in

Mar 30, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Workplace News

Workers cannot wait to safeguard their health – unions must act

By Mick Barry TD On Weds 25 March 1,000 workers at Moy Park Portadown walked off the job demanding proper health and safety protections for the workforce. The same day nearly 100 workers at a Larry Goodman meat plant – ABP in

Mar 30, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Theory & History

1930s Great Depression & global crisis today

“The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than… even the Great Depression.” That comment by economist Nouriel Roubini on 24th March indicates the growing possibility of global events entering an entirely new period. One

Mar 29, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19: from outbreak to pandemic – a chain of profiteering

By Niamh Brannelly How has COVID-19 spread so far and so fast? Catastrophes are not caused by a single event, but rather a chain of events, in this case linked to the type of society we live in where profit is put

Mar 28, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 crisis and Italy

Guiliano Bruneti – member of the Socialist Party’s sister group in Italy, Resistenze Internazionali – spoke in an online meeting last Saturday, organised by Ruth Coppinger, and gave a firsthand account of the spread of Covid19 in Italy. He spoke of the

Mar 27, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

The mental health crisis and COVID-19

By Aislinn O’Keefe According to a 2018 OECD survey, one in six people across Europe are living with a mental health problem, and more than 50% of people will experience mental health issues over the course of their lifetimes. Of the 36

Mar 26, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

The profiteering of big pharma

By Thomas White In what should be positive news it looks like Remdesivir, an antiviral drug developed in the wake of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, could be used to help treat patients with severe cases of Covid-19. The drug has not been

Mar 25, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles

Capitalism and the pandemic: Why the system has failed

By Manus Lenihan Covid-19 has utterly changed the political landscape. Just one month ago, rent freezes were deemed “unconstitutional.” Today a rent freeze is in force, along with a ban on evictions. The healthcare system has been massively expanded. Private hospital beds

Mar 25, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·The North

Britain/North: Lockdown, Covid-19 Bill and defending democratic rights

By Kevin Henry “Herd immunity, protect the economy, and if that means some pensioners die, too bad” – that’s how attendees at a private event in February said Tory strategist Dominic Cummings summed up the government’s ‘strategy’ for dealing with Covid-19. In

Mar 24, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

COVID-19: Government intervention as “free market” fails

By Daniel Waldron “Now is not the time for ideology” – this has been the refrain from the Tory government, echoed by Arlene Foster, as the state has been forced to intervene into the economy in a way not seen since the

Mar 23, 2020

Solidarity

Iran & Covid-19: Trump’s criminal sanctions amount to biological warfare

Workers cannot wait to safeguard their health – unions must act

1930s Great Depression & global crisis today

Covid-19: from outbreak to pandemic – a chain of profiteering

COVID-19 crisis and Italy

The mental health crisis and COVID-19

The profiteering of big pharma

Capitalism and the pandemic: Why the system has failed

Britain/North: Lockdown, Covid-19 Bill and defending democratic rights

COVID-19: Government intervention as “free market” fails

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