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20 January 2021
Vaccine confidence - a worker's response
A successful vaccination programme, if effectively delivered, gives millions of people hope of an easing of Covid-19 restrictions over the course of 2021.
16 December 2020
Rich countries hoarding vaccine is danger to us all
The Covid-19 pandemic has been truly global in character, with every nation reporting cases. Why is it then, that as the first vaccine shipments leave the factories, your ability to access it will depend
9 December 2020
Covid vaccines only first step - fight job losses, austerity and 'virus' of capitalism
Covid-19 vaccines in record-breaking times have raised hopes that life will return to normal
18 November 2020
Covid, vaccines, 'big pharma' - and the need for socialism
News that early results from a vaccine showed 90% effectiveness was greeted with relief
28 October 2020
Boots launches £120, 12-minute Covid test
One hundred and twenty pounds for a test with Boots. Boots, which is still avoiding millions in tax every year. Boots, which charged the NHS £2,000 per pot of hand cream.
16 September 2020
Capitalist profit and the race to develop a vaccine
The pharmaceutical industry needs to be in public ownership and democratically planned to meet the needs of the world's population
5 August 2020
Capitalism's 'vaccine war' shows need for socialist cooperation
Covid-19 can travel round the world at jet speed. No one can feel secure without global action. Yet despite gushing words from government leaders about international cooperation on research and development, a 'vaccine war' is developing.
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.
14 April 2020
Big pharma's profiteering holds back drug supply
All over the world, intensive research is taking place to find drugs to treat Covid-19.
23 March 2020
Johnson and Sunak responded to public anger and agreed to pay 80% of the wages of workers who are laid off because of the coronavirus. This will be welcomed by millions, but for workers already struggling to pay the bills, 80% of wages will not be enough to live on.
4 December 2019
End profiteering from health - nationalise big pharma
The issue of allowing US corporations access to the NHS and the affect of that on the cost of drugs has featured during the election campaign.
1 May 2019
300 NHS nurse suicides in seven years - fully fund our health service now!
The NHS crisis has reached horrifying new levels. Over 300 NHS nurses have died by suicide in seven years. In 2014, one nurse a week took their own lives.
6 February 2019
Cash-starved health service ripped off by big pharma - fund our NHS now!
The NHS has been priced out of buying a life-saving drug by pharmaceutical company Vertex. The cystic fibrosis drug, which can extend the life of children, costs £105,000 a year - a price which the NHS says is "unaffordable".
23 January 2019
Nationalise big pharma: end this profit-driven NHS crisis
NHS faces drug price hikes: Instead of subsidising their profits with tax breaks, they should be nationalised under democratic workers' control and management
3 October 2018
Over 25,000 people have been infected with contaminated blood products the NHS bought from profit-making pharmaceutical companies. Nearly 3,000 have died so far
18 September 2018
Big drugs companies dodge £3 billion pounds in tax
Big pharmaceutical companies may be dodging up to £3 billon in tax, contributing to crises in health systems worldwide, including our NHS
23 May 2018
A new outbreak of Ebola has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2014-16 some 28,000 people were infected in West Africa. 11,600 of them died.
7 March 2018
NHS: public health - not private profit
The Tories make dangerous claims like 'we're all living longer' and 'people are demanding more treatment'. Of course people want the most up-to-date and effective treatment, it's 2018.
1 November 2017
Handouts for sexist charity v cuts to women's refuges. Big pharma sues NHS while doctors plead for medicine.
28 February 2017
Build a movement to save our NHS
The important national demo in London on Saturday 4th March to save the NHS needs to be a springboard to build a massive movement that can defeat the government's attempt to finish it.
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