Pandemic Politics in the UK
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 5 2020 12:10
In the UK, the coronavirus crisis has brutally exposed the significance of the endless cuts to the NHS as well as the incompetence of the Johnson government. From failure to organise protective equipment for medical staff to the catastrophic decision to return elderly COVID-19 patients to care-homes, the shambles of the bespoke track-and-trace scheme and shipwreck of the scheme to re-open schools in England, the government has lurched from fiasco to debacle.
State Control is not Socialism
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 12 2020 18:38
According to Tom Harris in The Daily Telegraph on 17 March, “we are all socialists now”.
The Coronavirus Disaster and the Forces for Change - Mark Kosman
Submitted by hedgehog on Apr 22 2020 16:43
The UK Government's handling of the coronavirus disaster has been chaotic from the start. Meanwhile, criticism from opposition parties has been half-hearted at best.[1] Consequently, health professionals and scientists have had to lead the way in holding the Government to account.
Humanity's Health or Capitalism's Profit?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 25 2020 18:18
Socialism, or communism, or whatever you want to call a society of the future, will not save us from occasional epidemics. It would however deal with them in an entirely different way.
Fear and Loathing: Electoral Politics in a Capitalist Crisis
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 20 2019 11:27
What we are looking at in this election is the victory of the concept of nation over that of class. But then it could be said of all elections.
Nightmare on Downing Street
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Dec 16 2019 10:11
Johnson may get more extreme as his problems pile up. He now has a parliamentary majority, but the fundamental problems with his Brexit strategy – from capital’s point of view – still remain: the north of Ireland, Scotland, the economy."
British Bosses' Political Crisis
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 22 2019 14:11
The next few months will see the party political machines in full swing trying to draw us into the quagmire of democratic debate and that great privilege – a vote at the polling station. Neither of those arenas offer anything for the working class.
