COVID-19: an overview of the evidence
The data is in: lockdowns serve no useful purpose and cause catastrophic societal and economic harms. They must never be repeated in this country
Fighting lockdown in California: A US teacher speaks
Left Lockdown Sceptics interviews Andy Libson, an American anti-lockdown high school teacher and revolutionary socialist
The scarcity of neoliberalism: A Colombian perspective on Covid policies
It was early on a sunny morning in April 2020 when I entered the store at the entrance of the compound where I used to live, located in a working-class neighbourhood in Bogota, to buy arepas (maize preparations) for my breakfast. As soon as I entered the old man who runs the store, certainly a migrant from a rural area judging by his accent, asked me behind his mask, ‘so, Paolita, how do you see the situation?’ To which I replied, ‘well Abelardo, we humans created this disaster, we now need to face it’.
Mass civil disobedience needed to fight 1% NHS pay rise
Although it his now rumoured that nurses will get 2%, the pay offer proves once and for all that the government isn’t locking us down to protect the NHS – it is using support for the NHS to justify an assault on workers’ rights. In reply, NHS workers should join the public in mass civil disobedience.
Viruses in Humans and other Animals
By Dr Heiko Khoo, PublicSafety.org.uk Microbiology is concerned with microbes, organisms that are invisible to the naked eye. They include bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, prions, protozoa and algae. Our bodies are...
The Virus, Lockdown and the Left
When he was reflecting on the seemingly interminable periods of political stasis when nothing much changes, interrupted by concentrated outbreaks of dynamic political developments, Lenin astutely observed that “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”.
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.
COVID-19: A Market of up to 23 Billion US Dollars
A guest article by Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT)
Limitations of the NHS
This is a personal account by one of our readers, Glenn Meredith I am 78 years of age and have been in the care of ******* Urology Department and latterly...
Covid Superstars #4 – Professor John Edmunds OBE
This edition of Covid Superstars is by special request from a reader, although the Professor was already on the hit list.