COVID- 19 and the undoing of Brexit
Did you know that the Brexit Department has closed asks Andy Stowe?
Did you know that the Brexit Department has closed asks Andy Stowe?
Statement issued by the European organizations of the Fourth International on 8 April 2020.
Pandemics are an integral part of the global ecological crisis we are facing, and must be seen and treated as such.
Groups of people, often previously unknown to each other, started pulling together networks at the level of boroughs, individual streets and housing estates.
Bob Williams-Findlay writes about the anger at the disregard for the needs and interests of Disabled people by the government during the pandemic.
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.
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.
This pandemic starkly poses questions about austerity, profiteering, the control of production and distribution, housing, poverty and homelessness, writes Andy Stowe.
Johnson fails to act on WHO key recommendations, but self-organisation and mutual aid is springing up, writes Frank Morris.