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31 March 2021
Preparing for the revolts to come
While the Covid pandemic continues to ravage the globe, the capitalist classes are - if anything - even more frightened of what they will face as the virus's grip lessens. The pandemic has revealed the failings of their system to billions of people.
3 March 2021
'Casino capitalism' - driving another potential financial Armageddon
Across the globe at least 2.4 million people have now died from contracting Covid-19. Livelihoods have been wrecked and economies have crashed, with the world economy shrinking by over 4%
27 January 2021
Poverty wages: When workers can't afford to self-isolate
The Tories are now floating the idea that maybe if they paid £500 to desperate workers in the gig economy, they might be inclined to self-isolate for two weeks if they contract Covid
20 January 2021
Covid: Bosses chase profit and put workers in danger
Any lingering illusion that the government's strategy for handling the Covid pandemic was aimed at protecting the entire population, without fear or favour, has been well and truly shattered.
13 January 2021
Global capitalism at most dangerous conjuncture since the 1930s
The pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises
13 January 2021
NHS pandemic warnings ignored - renationalise our NHS
It wasn't the case that "nobody could have seen this coming".
30 December 2020
2020 - a year which drove home the catastrophic failures of capitalism
Too many deaths from the pandemic, job losses, pay cuts and poverty were the experience across the planet.
16 December 2020
Can green technology and AI save capitalism?
The following article is an edited transcript of the speech by Mark Best in a workshop at the Socialism 2020 event organised online by the Socialist Party from 20-23 November (see 'Socialism 2020: Growing search for ideas to change the world' at socialistparty.org.uk)
2 December 2020
Better for billionaires. Worse for workers
Back in August, Boris Johnson promised a "world beating" track-and-trace system. Most people agree that didn't happen but the government and economy are 'world beating' in other respects.
11 November 2020
Capitalists vs working class - not in it together
"We are really not all in this together. It is far worse for some than for others." It could be a quote from any of the millions of working-class people whose living standards have plummeted
28 October 2020
Food and a capitalist Brexit: No trust in Tory Deals!
No Tory-negotiated trade deals will defend the interests of the working class. However, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plays hard ball in the eleventh-hour negotiations on what will replace Britain's
9 September 2020
Safety overridden in drive to bolster the economy
Even as cases of Covid-19 infections are rising dramatically, the Tories are desperately trying to get workers back to their workplaces and spending money in city centres.
15 July 2020
Workers and young people need planning for jobs, not handouts for bosses
Like every aspect of the government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Rishi Sunak's "plan for jobs" is more headline than substance, and doomed to fail in its stated aims.
24 June 2020
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us: update on the lockdown economy
17 June 2020
Two-metre rule under 'review' - Another case of profit before safety
The Tories all sat in their posh homes behind computers now want to put our lives at risk through the relaxation of the two-metre rule
10 June 2020
Roosevelt's New Deal programme - reforms to save capitalism
The present coronavirus crisis is tipping the USA into an economic depression which threatens the worst eco-nomic deprivation for Americans since the 1930s
2 June 2020
Furlough: We are not 'all in the same boat'
The hospitality industry has been downsized. For some, the furlough scheme came too late and workers were already cut, or businesses had shut their doors for good.
2 June 2020
Protect every job, nationalise don't subsidise
As the economic implications of Coronavirus emerge, Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak has proposed Project Birch
20 May 2020
Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race
Trump's administration has still failed to mobilise an effective response to the pandemic
29 April 2020
No return to the 1930s: World War Two and 'a land fit for heroes'
In the fourth article in our series 'war, global crises and working-class struggle', Socialist Party national committee member Tom Baldwin shows how working-class expectations were transformed by World War Two and the impact this had on the initial post-war period
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