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1 December 2021
Covid-19: New variant emerges but same old capitalist disease
New Covid-19 variants are inevitable but the threat to world health comes from profit-driven capitalism.
17 November 2021
DVLA ballot turnout falls short of threshold
PCS members at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) have voted by 79% to continue their campaign of industrial action over Covid safety, but unfortunately the turnout was 39.6%, short of the 50% threshold required under the anti-union laws
17 November 2021
Health and care staff shortages worsened by Tory vaccine sacking threat
To add fuel to the fire of the staffing crisis in social care, the government's punitive 'no jab, no job policy' has now come into effect in England.
10 November 2021
RMT AGM: Delegates focus on the looming battles
The highlight of the 2021 RMT annual general meeting (AGM) was being able to accept a pay offer from Abellio ScotRail that bust open the government's pay freeze for 2021.
3 November 2021
Vaccine inequality - the ugly face of capitalism
While a majority of adults in the advanced capitalist countries of Europe and North America have been fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, in low-income countries of the 'global south' only 1.4% of people had received one dose as of September 2021
20 October 2021
The UK's Covid hospitalisation rate is currently six times higher than other large European countries
13 October 2021
DVLA: Workers ballot on further strike action
PCS members at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are balloting from 12 October to 10 November on whether to continue their campaign of industrial action over Covid safety.
13 October 2021
MPs list Covid failings: Workers' inquiry needed: A slow move into lockdown restrictions at the start of the pandemic, a decision to halt testing in March 2020, the disastrous privatised test-and-trace, and sending thousands of Covid-positive patients into care homes - all among the government's "big mistakes" in handling the Covid pandemic in E
22 September 2021
TV Review - Help: Heart-wrenching portrayal of Covid care home crisis
'Help' is a heart-wrenching story of a care home in Liverpool for people with dementia. When the Covid-19 crisis hits the home, the main protagonist, Sarah, is faced with loss, pressure and difficult
22 September 2021
Tax fraud could be over £20 billion annually
The think tank Taxwatch estimates as much as £15.2 billion of UK tax lost in 2020 was from fraudulent activity - almost half of uncollected income.
15 September 2021
On the frontline, and still fighting for the NHS
I've been working in medical imaging for eight years now. Even before we were struck by a global pandemic, we were struggling to keep up with the number of patients needing imaging, and waiting lists
8 September 2021
Union action needed to make schools Covid safe
Staff, school students, and their families understandably want the new academic year to be a return to 'normality'
7 July 2021
Fund the measures needed to stop the Covid spread in schools
The increasing number of Covid cases among pupils, and the need for school 'bubbles' to isolate, means that over 370,000 pupils are in isolation and having to learn at home
7 July 2021
Manchester death rate caused by deprivation
The Covid-19 death rate is 25% higher in Greater Manchester than in the rest of England. Average life expectancy has fallen by 1.6 years for men and 1.2 for women, an even bigger fall than the average
7 July 2021
Striking Ealing parking attendants rally outside council
An Ealing parking attendants' strike rally on 30 June was lively and angry. The picket lines take place outside the council offices, in an effort to put pressure on the Labour council to intervene and
1 July 2021
Preparing for struggle in post-Covid Britain
Far from an era of sustained economic upswing, social peace and a Tory ascendency opening up for post-Covid Britain, the prospects ahead are for heightened class conflict and turbulent political times.
30 June 2021
As soon as the prime minister announces his 'full confidence' in a government minister in a pickle, you know they're doomed.
23 June 2021
The dispute at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency over Covid safety is now in its third month
23 June 2021
Sacking non-vaccinated care workers will not save lives
The Tories' announcement that care home workers will have to be vaccinated to retain their jobs is a deliberate, if somewhat botched, attempt to distract attention from their appalling safety record on Covid-19
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Staff and students unite against university bosses' attacks
Education unions lead campaign against Leicester academisation
RMT strikes against abolition of night tube train operators
South Yorkshire Stagecoach drivers strike against measly 1% pay offer
Nottingham and Mansfield trade unions rally against cuts and for better pay
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Housing campaigners protest CEO champagners
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Socialism 2021: How we reached our fighting fund appeal target
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