A CUBAN medical brigade arrived in Italy at the weekend, the sixth dispatched to assist other countries with the coronavirus pandemic. Havana has also sent missions to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Suriname and Grenada, but Italy is its first to a … Read More »
The science has changed? No! After precious months of denialist inaction, the government has “at last understood what had really taken place in China”. Why should we care what Richard Horton thinks? He is not only a practising doctor but … Read More »
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Labour is “alarmed at Covid-19 laws being passed without vote”. And so they bloody well should be – the potential for abusing the draconian powers now passed into law is immense. There are those who say covid-19 is overegged. Some … Read More »
When death stalks us it is not bankers we turn to, or corporate executives, or hedge fund managers. Nonetheless, those are the people our societies have best rewarded. Marx is misunderstood. His use of the word materialism is not the … Read More »
World Socialist Website, maintained by the Socialist Equality Party, is worth keeping an eye on. Its reports on the coronaviris crisis have been outstanding. I’ve no links to the SEP, one product of the implosion of Gerry Healy’s frightful WRP, … Read More »
See also: Varoufakis on Covid-19 … Klein on Covid-19 The corona virus has cast a light on every aspect of British society: the economic relations, the class inequalities, migration, capitalism, big pharma. Everything i seen in a new light and … Read More »
Do not miss this. Yanis Varoufakis on the political and economic impact of the crisis – and its inextricable links with the 2008 crash. Price to you? Eighteen minutes and twenty-two seconds of your life. (See also: Kevin Ovenden on … Read More »
… wealth is increasingly concentrated among a privileged few while millions are barely subsisting. Women are dying for lack of decent maternity care and children are denied an education that could be their route out of poverty. It doesn’t have … Read More »
With Italy in lock down there’s music on the balconies of Rome’s apartment blocks, but it’s not Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Five days ago the The European Court of Justice fined Italy €7.5 million for ‘illegal’ state-aid to Sardinia’s struggling … Read More »