Covid-19: the ecological dimension
Pandemics are an integral part of the global ecological crisis we are facing, and must be seen and treated as such.
Covid-19
Self-isolation, Corbynism and class consciousness
Groups of people, often previously unknown to each other, started pulling together networks at the level of boroughs, individual streets and housing estates.
The Pandemic Coronavirus COVID-19 and Disabled People
Bob Williams-Findlay writes about the anger at the disregard for the needs and interests of Disabled people by the government during the pandemic.
Made in Downing Street
Market failure has to be replaced by social solidarity. This is what makes the myriad networks and solidarity groupings that have sprung up so important. The left need to make building these our overwhelming priority over the weeks and probably months ahead.
Covid-19 pandemic: let’s protect our lives not their profits!
Many instances of grassroots organization at the level of a neighbourhood, a block of flats, with those proposing to help and those needing help (elderly, disabled, in quarantine) making contact, often for the first time, exist in different countries, in Britain, in the Netherlands, in France. In Italy, alongside the practical help, communities have come together to break social isolation and show solidarity through mass singalongs from their balconies.
Pay the workers! Suspend rent and bill payments!
This pandemic starkly poses questions about austerity, profiteering, the control of production and distribution, housing, poverty and homelessness, writes Andy Stowe.
Covid 19 – Johnson’s plan puts profits before people
Johnson fails to act on WHO key recommendations, but self-organisation and mutual aid is springing up, writes Frank Morris.
