The inexplicable response of the Left to the Covid crisis
A trade union activist explains the health and safety grounds for unions and Left media outlets to oppose vaccine mandates and the capture of medical regulation by big pharma.
Contributions from 18 September, part 5: Simon Elmer’s critique
The final contribution we are publishing from the event last month is a set of critical observations by Simon Elmer, who was unable to attend.
The Swappies: a Corony Case Study
If there is any consistency on the activist revolutionary left in the UK about coronavirus it is in their massive overestimation of the risk posed by it, in tandem with a universal acceptance that the Tories were initially hell bent on a ‘herd immunity’ strategy.
Comrades, Roll up your Sleeves!
There is a nationwide stampede to get the covid jag. Critical voices are routinely blocked by fact checkers on the net. Any criticism is denounced as being from anti-vax conspiracy theorists. Those who opposing mass vaccination or show vaccine hesitancy are abused for being selfish or dangerous. The government are pushing forward with the idea of a vaccination passport, after months of denying they intended to introduce one. The pro-vaccine propaganda is reaching a crescendo.
Lockdown Zealotry on the Liberal Left: A Virtue Signalling Crusade
As a lockdown sceptic, over the last few months I have experienced the kind of treatment at the hands of my lockdown lefty ‘friends’ they previously reserved for online rants at the alt-right Twitterati. As I shared these upsetting experiences it became clear that others had suffered the same kind of abuse from people they had previously considered ‘comrades’. This led to my interest in the psychology driving the left lockdowners’ bullying of socialist lockdown sceptics and widespread denial of debate.
Counterfire and the Anti-Children Left
One of the small but not insignificant groups on the Marxist left is Counterfire, an organisation that came about in 2013 following a split from the Socialist Workers Party.