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Coronavirus news
MPs get £10k each for lockdown expenses – where’s ours?
MPs can claim up to £10,000 – on top of their salaries and other expenses – for remote working costs under lockdown. This is on top of the £26,000 a year MPs already get for office expenses!, writes Lindsey Morgan, Leicester Socialist Party.
Dispatches from the front: NHS staff say give us PPE, not medals!
The situation in London hospitals is dire, much worse than comes across in the news. At my hospital, for a few weeks already, every ward except one is a Covid-19 ward
Johnson’s hospitalisation: a tale of two treatments
Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was discharged from hospital on 12 April following treatment for Covid-19
Big pharma’s profiteering holds back drug supply
All over the world, intensive research is taking place to find drugs to treat Covid-19.
Lockdown increases domestic violence calls – Tory money a drop in the ocean
Home secretary Priti Patel, has announced a ‘you are not alone’ campaign to support domestic violence victims who are more at risk than ever under lockdown, writes Amy Cousens, Women’s Lives Matter.
NHS nurse: we’re not wasting PPE – the Tories don’t value us
Tory health secretary Matt Hancock is blundering from one calamity to the next. It’s a disgrace that he accuses us of wasting personal protective equipment (PPE), writes An NHS nurse.
Rapacious capitalism and the spread of coronavirus
Donald Trump continually refers to the coronavirus pandemic as the “Chinese virus”. He believes this demonisation of China plays to the isolationist, racist and xenophobic sections of his domestic support
What we think
Exit strategy? PPE and mass testing and workers’ control of workplace safety
The coronavirus pandemic in the UK has not yet passed its peak. Hundreds are still dying every day, and yet the pressure is mounting for the Tories to announce an ‘exit strategy’
Fight back against the corona propaganda war
Transport
London Transport workers fighting private companies and TfL to secure health and safety
A life and death battle on the buses: 21 transport workers in London have died from coronavirus, 15 of them bus drivers.
Workplace news
Unite opposes all cuts to domestic violence services
Tension is growing in many locked-down homes. It’s no surprise domestic violence is increasing too. Calls to Refuge’s helpline, the domestic abuse charity, are up 120% since the lockdown began, writes Jon Dale, secretary, Unite union EM/NG32 Nottinghamshire Health branch (personal capacity).
Passport workers forced back to offices as Home Office shirks its duty of care
Collectively demanding safe warehouse working conditions
Usdaw shop workers’ union activists meet via Zoom
Coronavirus workplace news in brief
Labour
Sabotage – the inner workings of Labour’s political machine exposed
Campaigns
Plymouth students discuss rent strike
Final push for May Day greetings
Socialist Party coronavirus crisis finance appeal
Join an online Socialist Party meeting during lockdown
The Socialist Party and socialist ideas are growing
Lessons from history
How the catastrophe of WW1 sparked revolution
Readers’ opinion
Going viral: Socialist comments on the corona crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed, and workers and communities are organising in