After months of obsequious kow-towing by the British media, the British government’s rerun of the Second World War with Johnson and his team playing the role of Dad’s Army has run its course and Johnson and his cronies are now seen as buffoons who have horribly mismanaged the crisis. One of the outcomes of this failure has been a distancing of component elements of the British State with the meaningless Stay Alert being unanimously rejected as a slogan and more coherent plans being advanced by administrations outside England.
The “resumption” of all the dangers in National Education
23 May 2020, byThe return of pupils in the first two years of secondary education in the so-called “green” regions began on Monday 18 May. And we are a long way from “the return to school of the dropouts”: it is even the opposite!
Johnson government forced to U turn on NHS and schools
22 May 2020, byAt the regular Prime Minister’s questions (PMQs) two days ago (20 May) Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer asked the question that had already been raging on social media for some time. Why is the British Government making non-EU migrants working and dying in the front line in the National Health Service pay a special surcharge of £400 (increasing to £624 in October) for the right of themselves and their families to use the NHS?
Class Struggle and Social Protest in the Coronavirus Pandemic
22 May 2020, byThe United States has during the shutdown of the last two months suffered 90,000 deaths while 36 million workers have filed for unemployment, nearly 25 percent of the workforce. President Donald Trump now wants to restart the economy because he fears losing the November election if this Second Great Depression continues. Businesses are also anxious to make profits, and many unemployed workers want to earn wages—but they fear putting themselves and their families in danger. The fight for safe workplaces will become the driving force of activism in the coming weeks.
For the cancellation of debts and dropping of the “free trade” agreements
21 May 2020To address the Corona pandemic and its severe consequences: the need to break with the tools of imperialist domination over our peoples: indebtedness and “free trade” agreements.
A report on a social climate change action in West Africa
21 May 2020, byBeing in Africa, on the other side of the world, it is very difficult to say if any serious action has been taken against climate change. The fact is, from the top leaders on down, people seem ignorant of the scourge.
We are not all in the same boat
20 May 2020, byThis government has a death pact with a market system that kills.
We should start with the deaths. Sometimes on the left we can be a bit cold and analytical but the only response at the moment is utter anger. Thousands and thousands are dying needlessly. Dying on ventilators, apart from their family and friends, is a slow painful way to die. Everyone who dies leaves dozens or more of us grieving. More and more of us know people who have died. Already we are talking of the equivalent of 600 Grenfells (over 100 people died in a tower block due to defective building materials two years ago).
Choosing between life or Capital in Latin America:
19 May 2020, byRóbert Nára interviewed Jeffery R. Webber for the summer 2020 issue of Marxist Left Review published by Socialist Alternative, Australia.
Trump Will Sacrifice Tens of Thousands to Reopen Economy, Win Reelection
18 May 2020, byPresident Donald Trump is driving the United States toward complete loss of control of the coronavirus pandemic, a development that will lead to tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths and further devastation of the economy. Today the United States has 1.3 million known cases and 78,763 official deaths while 40 million people or 24.9% of the workforce are unemployed. With Trump’s plan for reopening next month’s death toll will continue to rise and the economy could virtually collapse.