Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Coronavirus: the waiting period
Drastic public health measures against Covid-19 have not yet been implemented in Britain but are imminent. What do we do until then, asks SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Control measures are crucial to reduce the overwhelming of the total healthcare system capacity by COVID-19
IN Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag wrote: “Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.” Although the Covid-19 situation is changing rapidly by the day — at the time of writing, five people have died in Britain and there are 319 confirmed cases — the disease has not yet truly arrived.
Normal life continues, nervously. For most people, Covid-19 remains a mystery and the main contagion is fear. So far, the government has held off putting in place drastic public health measures. Major disruption has not yet arrived. But with evidence from the spread elsewhere, it is certain that it will, and soon.
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