Ending the Nuclear Age
BY OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN With all the urgent global crises right now, from climate change to the Covid-19 pandemic, it may seem as though the world is hovering on the edge of destruction. But despite the odds, […]
Category: Health
Cuba: The vaccine vs the media blockade
by Will Harney On 20 August the video streaming site YouTube, owned by tech giant Google, suspended the accounts of Cuban media – just as they were reporting rare good news in the Covid-19 global pandemic: […]
Imperialism a breeding ground for pandemics
by Bjork Lind It has been established beyond dispute that capitalism’s assault on the environment is the driver behind the evolution of Covid-19 and other infectious diseases. Yet deforestation, pollution and land degradation continue at […]
Coronavirus: putting private profit before public health
by Charles Chinweizu and Robert Clough As we go to press, once again the coronavirus pandemic is running out of control across Britain. In early July, the daily average of around 500 reported Covid-19 cases […]
British economy: covid, Brexit, crisis
by David Yaffe During the first half of 2020 the coronavirus pandemic drove the British economy into the deepest recession since records began. The second wave of the pandemic will ensure that the recession continues […]
COVID Has Led People to Save More. Now Economists Are Upset.
BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 Ispent the first 35 years of my working life in a big northeastern city. I was a weekend spendthrift like many a callow youth, […]
Boris Johnson struggles to explain his plans for spending on hospitals in Leeds
Boris Johnson forgets details of hospital spending in car-crash TV interview PM searches for figures in notes then yells for help from aides Andrew WoodcockPolitical Editor@andywoodcockSaturday 03 October 2020 13:23 The Independent employs over 100 […]
Fink’s Bar: The Shocking Truth About Bibi, Trump and Why COVID will Kill 6 Million Americans
By VT Editors VT: We are now told that between 2 and 6 million Americans will die of COVID. We also know, from our many months of tracking real statistics on COVID that it is bio-engineered in […]
The Coronavirus Act 2020
Jumping on the excuse of Covid-19, parliament has rammed through a host of draconian measures unrelated to the health crisis. Proletarian writers On 25 March, the Coronavirus Act 2020 received royal assent after travelling through parliament at […]
Civil servants face coercion over return to the workplace
In a desperate bid to restore city centre footfall, the government is pushing workers back into offices. Proletarian writers The stampede back to work that the government is encouraging – just at the moment when […]