25 February 2021

West London Socialist Party: Aids, section 28 and equal marriage - lessons for the fight for LGBTQ+ rights today

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24 February 2021

Where's the road map to jobs and wages Boris?

Trade unions must fight for lives and livelihoods
Johnson's 'cautious' road map to reopen society from lockdown in England - after over 120,000 Covid deaths and a massive hit to incomes - won't lead to the needed restoration and improvement in living standards.

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24 February 2021

Garment workers and Covid: Dying for less than minimum wage

Garment workers have among the highest rate of coronavirus deaths for working women in the UK, the Office for National Statistics has revealed

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22 February 2021

Leeds Socialist Party: Lessons of the AIDS crisis for struggles during the Covid pandemic

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17 February 2021

Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses

The National Shop Stewards Network held its 5th meeting during the pandemic

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17 February 2021

Covid workplace safety

Workplace safety. Something this government knows little about nor cares about. That's why there have been over 3,500 reported Covid outbreaks in workplaces since the start of the pandemic

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17 February 2021

Derby Toyota plant Covid crisis

Derby Socialist Party has compiled a report on the situation at the Toyota Car Plant in Burnaston, near Derby which employs around 2,500 staff.

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17 February 2021

News in brief

Last year was dubbed 'the year from hell' as a result of two million deaths from Covid and the pandemic's huge hit on working-class living standards and livelihoods.

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16 February 2021

SE Wales Socialist Party: Covid vaccination not safe in private hands

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14 February 2021

National Shop Stewards Network: Fight together against the Tories' and bosses' Covid offensive

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10 February 2021

Question mark over AstraZeneca's vaccine to protect against new Covid variant

The Johnson government's much-trumpeted Covid vaccine roll-out programme has taken a knock.

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10 February 2021

Covid and pregnancy

Expecting a baby should be an exciting time for parents. However, for many the past year of the Covid pandemic has dampened what should have been a joyous occasion.

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10 February 2021

NSSN meeting: Fight together against the Tories and bosses' Covid offensive

Come to National Shop Stewards Network Zoom public meeting: 2021 has started with a bang, with teachers and school support staff in the National Education Union and Unison forcing Boris Johnson's Tory government to retreat on the reopening of schools

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10 February 2021

Court workers to ballot in fight for safety

A couple of months ago the chief executive of HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) put out on the internal web extracts from a poem about the NHS, which was meant to inspire us

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3 February 2021

Covid 'vaccine wars' underline failure of capitalist nation states to deal with the global pandemic

The European Commission was forced into a humiliating climbdown

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3 February 2021

Covid outbreak at Kent asylum detention centre: Napier is not fit for purpose

The dilapidated Napier army barracks in Folkestone became the home of 400 asylum seekers five months ago

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3 February 2021

Strong union lead needed to stop DVLA Covid spread

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27 January 2021

Overwhelmed, underfunded, underpaid, and still fighting for safe PPE

On the front line we're seeing whole wards being wiped out with staff sickness. In my own trust, at the start of January, there was approximately 9% staff absence.

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27 January 2021

TV Review: It's a Sin

I remember the first time I heard about being gay outside of jokes in the playground. It was looking at pictures of Kaposi's sarcoma patients in a science textbook page on HIV/Aids.

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27 January 2021

Jaguar Land Rover: West Midlands superspreader

Despite Covid infections rising, many workers in non-essential jobs are being forced to work

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