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27 May 2020
Eerily quiet before second wave - don't reopen schools!
"Don't use the Q-word" has been said more than once this week. But it does feel eerily quiet, writes An NHS health professional.
26 May 2020
Coronavirus pandemic news in brief
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is launching a bailout scheme called 'Project Birch' to prevent the collapse of key big businesses
26 May 2020
More blunders and profiteering in Tory track-and-trace scheme
The Tories' 'track and trace' scheme fails on all counts
22 May 2020
Black and Asian Covid-19 deaths: an indictment of capitalist inequality
The Covid death figures broken down by ethnicity caused widespread shock and anger
18 May 2020
Communities condemn Tory handling of crisis - with safe protests
Car cavalcades took place in Sheffield and Haringey.
18 May 2020
Contract tracer speaks out: Tories' plan is outsourced chaos
The government's new contact tracing scheme is outsourced to Serco - which subcontracted recruitment to Capita, writes a NHS contact tracer.
13 May 2020
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it "fanned the flames of revolt"
Laura Spinney's book on the 1918 flu pandemic, first published in 2017, is now being widely read
13 May 2020
Going Viral: Socialist comments and letters 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
13 May 2020
Johnson's plan terrifies me - readers react to lifting lockdown
Boris Johnson has filled me with dread. Construction workers are being thrown to the wolves. It's going to be impossible to socially distance on building sites, writes Elaine Brunskill, Gateshead.
11 May 2020
Dispatches from the front: bosses prepare fresh attacks on NHS
As an NHS nurse I was asked by the Socialist to provide a note from the 'front line'
6 May 2020
Unsafe Workplace? "It's up to you" PCS tells reps and members
PCS union reps and members at Paisley Jobcentre walked out on 24 April. Following an outbreak of Covid-19 in their office, they reached an agreement allowing staff to go home
6 May 2020
Bosses push to lift lockdown - they only care about profits
This week will mark seven weeks since Britain entered lockdown. It appears that the death rate from Covid-19 is finally starting to fall. Nonetheless, the official number of deaths is now higher than every other European country
6 May 2020
TV Review BBC Panorama: PPE shortage - how many lives will be lost?
I was astounded as to the extent of the government's PPE failures and how NHS staff are being put at risk, writes Barbara Clare, Stevenage Socialist Party.
6 May 2020
Test and trace: workers need a real plan
Only a national plan and workers' control can guarantee a safe exit from lockdown: There is a growing scientific consensus that successful management of the coronavirus crisis requires a comprehensive plan - combining mass testing, contact tracing and supported isolation of potentially infected individuals, writes Martin Powell-Davies, Socialist Party national committee.
6 May 2020
US: Trump's public health cuts have condemned thousands worldwide
More people in the US died from Covid-19 in three months than in nine years of the US armed forces' Vietnam War. The US private healthcare system has been shockingly exposed, writes Jon Dale, secretary, Unite union Nottinghamshire NHS Branch (personal capacity).
5 May 2020
Tories using pandemic to shift lab testing out of NHS
The Tories have set up a parallel structure to the existing NHS laboratories network, involving big private companies, and a mixture of unidentified and unqualified staff, writes a NHS laboratory worker.
5 May 2020
I've spent most of this week in the 'cold' emergency department, still wearing mask and apron, X-raying patients with broken bones, serious gastric issues, cancer and so on
29 April 2020
Woolwich ferry - workers secure 100% furlough agreement
Unite union has negotiated a 100% furlough agreement with Briggs Marine, the contractor who currently runs the Woolwich Ferry.
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