30 April 2020
Last week Nissan started to make gowns for NHS trusts at its Sunderland plant. The development attracted wide press coverage – but in fact it is a sign of a serious problem with government policy.
The ruling class, the establishment – call it what you will – has always underestimated the people of Britain.
Workers in the NHS, and all of us who use it should insist that never again can it be allowed to face such an epidemic with such limited resources…
Keen to profit from the Covid-19 crisis, transport companies have been eagerly queuing up with their begging bowls, while ensuring that workers bear the brunt of the reductions in services…
Many are asking whether Wales needs any more devolution. The coronavirus crisis has made the question even more important…
The European Union poses as the protector of the environment – despite a disastrous record…
No one can say Britain wasn’t warned about its vaccine capacity, and yet very little was done…
Throughout Britain people are working out for themselves what they can do in the fight against Covid-19 Here are just two examples…
The imperialists are blackmailing the nations of the world – if you want to trade, it’s free trade or nothing…
Britain took a halting step forward along the road to universal education in the 1870s – but not without ruling class opposition…
The British working class has a good history of “doing the 24-hour job” and asking the questions at the same time – during the Second World War, for example.
Has Covid-19 infected the Brexit process? For diehard believers in the EU, it has become the excuse they were looking for.
