Why We Need a National Care Service – and How to Build One
Coronavirus has exposed the scandal of our privatised, fragmented, and underfunded social care system – it's time to make the case for a real alternative: a National Care Service.
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Covid-19 Shows Corbyn Was Right About Public Broadband
After the 2019 election, Labour was mocked for supporting free, public and high-quality broadband – but as millions struggle without full fibre through lockdown, the idea has never looked better.
Covid Will Change How We Work – It’s Time for the Left to Respond
From skyrocketing unemployment to remote working and reduced hours, the Covid-19 pandemic is transforming the world of work – and the Left needs to provide its vision for the future before it's too late.
Care Workers Don’t Need Badges, They Need Proper Sick Pay
New research shows that 80% of care workers believe they will lose wages if they self-isolate. The time for tokens is over – the government needs to act today to improve working conditions.
The Coronavirus Debt Crisis
UK household debt hit an all-time high before the coronavirus. Now it's the next crisis the government has to tackle – and only a suspension of repayments will do.
Britain’s Covid Crisis: A View from the Frontline
A doctor on the frontline describes the Covid crisis in Britain's hospitals – from staff exhausted and off sick to triaging patients, scrambling for space, hospital transmission and a death toll now exceeding 100,000.
How Big Pharma’s Profiteering Led to the Omicron Variant
For months, medical experts warned that leaving large areas of the world unvaccinated would make new variants inevitable – but for Big Pharma, profits come before public health.
It’s Time For a People’s Covid Inquiry
After a year of corruption, delay, and denial, the government can't be trusted to hold itself accountable for Britain's extraordinary Covid death toll – so campaigners, workers and bereaved families are doing it instead.
Why Fighting Inequality Is the Key to Fighting Vaccine Hesitancy
The anti-vax sentiment which has accompanied the Covid vaccine rollout can't be challenged by science alone – we also need to reckon with the massive inequality that fuels suspicion of power in the first place.
Evictions Are a Public Health Threat
New research from the US shows that, on top of being cruel, evictions increase Covid-19 transmission throughout the population – making it clear that extending eviction bans is a public health issue.
Coronavirus Exposes Tory Public Health Failures
Staff shortages, too few beds, a lack of protective equipment and more than a million elderly lacking in basic social care – Tory mismanagement of Britain's public health system has made the coronavirus crisis much harder to handle.
How a Global Vaccine Apartheid Is Hindering the Fight Against Covid
The Global North’s stockpile of Covid-19 vaccines won’t eradicate the virus – but it does expose the reality of capitalism’s deep international inequalities.
The Global North’s Vaccine Charity Is a Sham
The Global North is responding to vaccine inequality by dumping near-expired doses on African countries without infrastructure to disseminate them. Those doses don't end up in arms – they end up in the bin.
Vaccine Nationalism Is Putting World Health At Risk
As of today, the United States has distributed 15 times more vaccines than the entire continent of Africa – hoarding by the Developed World threatens the global Covid response and will deepen inequality for years to come.
Coronavirus Could Transform the International Order
Historic emergencies have produced great transformations in the international arena – towards nationalism and conflict or peace and multilateralism. Now is the time to decide what the legacy of coronavirus will be.
We Can’t Let the Tories Get Away with Britain’s Covid Disaster
The UK government's pandemic failings resulted in 120,000 deaths and greater economic damage than any other developed nation – but as they plan reopening, the media seems prepared to let them escape the blame.