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Corporate forces are prioritising the shoring up of capitalism – even as workers perish from Covid-19
The drive to preserve a failing economy that works for the few rather than to transform it radically for the many exists on an international level, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Builders at work in Belfast

PERHAPS you read this on hold in a queue behind scores of thousands trying to access universal credit.

Maybe you are discovering that the fiendish complexity of the government’s scheme to subsidise your pay during this crisis belies the glitzy headlines — especially if you are self-employed.

Or maybe you work in construction, forced by your employer to go in this week to build luxury flats at grave risk to your health, your workmates’ and your family’s, and against the advice of your union.

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