Education workers teach Tories and Starmer the bleeding obvious
The NEU has won a major victory for its members and wider society. It has shown Labour what real leadership looks like.
The NEU has won a major victory for its members and wider society. It has shown Labour what real leadership looks like.
Today’s model of human society with its highly destructive relationship with nature is placing our own continued existence directly at risk
Preventing this threat involves not just a vaccine but a fundamental change in the relationship between human beings and nature.
An exit strategy from such pandemics is now crucial to the future of human life on the planet.
The new spike in cases and hospital admissions shows the failure of the Johnson government’s strategy.
Johnson and his government are sitting atop a mountain of at least 65,000 corpses.
The struggle against coronavirus is a struggle against the chronic undervaluing of workers in the care sector, both materially and symbolically. Emotional labor has never had the value attached to it that it should have. The jobs that women have traditionally undertaken have not had their importance recognized.
It will be impossible to return to the so-called normal state before the Covid-19 crisis – which was a capitalist “normality” that threatened the future of humanity and the planet. It is urgent to change to a new society based on social needs, organized by and for the working classes with public ownership of banks and the main means of production. That is why a radical socio-ecological transformational perspective is necessary.
In the United States Black Lives Matter has severely damaged Trump. The movement made the connection between the racism of American society and the staggeringly disproportionate death toll of Black Americans in the pandemic.
Viruses such as Covid 19 represent a direct threat to the future of life on the planet – human life in particular – on a par with the other threats such as global warming, the pollution and acidification of the oceans, the mass extinction of species, and fresh water depletion.