16 December 2020

Mass testing - we need trade union oversight and full pay for all

How effective are the resources being put into testing?

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16 December 2020

Fight for jobs and safety

Unemployment and Covid rising
The beginning of a mass vaccination programme has raised hopes of an end to the Covid crisis. But putting profits first, the Tories have mismanaged the health and jobs crisis from day one.

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16 December 2020

Protests in solidarity with Indian farmers

Around 300 people from the city's Indian Sikh community turned out in Cardiff Bay on Saturday 12 December to protest in solidarity with farmers in Punjab, India, taking action against the brutal right-wing regime

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16 December 2020

Quiz 2020

What a year! The Covid pandemic, the worst recession in living memory, the Black Lives Matter movement, the US presidential election, the Brexit debacle, growing class inequalities...

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16 December 2020

Fight for NHS pay and funding

On 2 March 2020, as coronavirus cases rose to four in a day, Boris Johnson told us that Britain was "well-prepared with a fantastic NHS"

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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

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16 December 2020

Cancel exams for class of Covid

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has refused to follow Scotland and Wales in cancelling exams, justifying his decision with: "Exams are the best form of assessment we have".

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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

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9 December 2020

Malaysia: Massive capitalist exploitation of migrant workers exposed by Covid pandemic

News of the spread of Covid-19 in factory hostels across Malaysia has come at a time when Malaysians are facing the highest number of infections since the start of the pandemic in early March this year

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2 December 2020

Unions must resist return to austerity

Chancellor Sunak's spending review should be a wake-up call to the trade union leaders. Even from the capitalists' point of view there was no immediate need to impose a pay freeze on 1.5 million public sector workers.

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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.

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2 December 2020

NHS: Underfunded, understaffed, underpaid

Everyone on shift feels the Tories have been an unmitigated disaster in their handling of the pandemic, whatever they voted in the general election.

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2 December 2020

Don't let the festive season be one of misery for retail workers

The three days leading up to the England-wide lockdown were a taste of things to come, with shoppers flooding to the high street to squeeze in Christmas shopping.

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2 December 2020

News in brief

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2 December 2020

Solidarity with Brighton UCU strike - we won't pay for Covid crisis

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25 November 2020

Covid crisis: "We won't pay the price"

After giving Covid contracts worth billions to their cronies, the Tories announced yet another pay freeze for millions of public sector workers, and the scrapping of the planned increase in the minimum wage

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25 November 2020

TUSC sets out core policies for May 2021 local elections

The core policies are the minimum basis on which someone can stand as a TUSC candidate

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25 November 2020

Stop the Tories putting profit before health

Covid, vaccines and the NHS: Millions will be breathing a huge sigh of relief at the news of several Covid-19 vaccines successfully passing through their development stages

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Hugo Pierre, speaking at Socialism 2020, 21st November 2020

22 November 2020

Hugo Pierre, a candidate in Unison's general secretary election, speaking at Socialism 2020, 21st November 2020

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18 November 2020

Optare: Right to strike defended

Unite members at Optare in Yorkshire returned to the picket lines on 16 November for the first day of their now escalated four-days-a-week strike at the bus manufacturers.

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