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Covid-19: learning from the past for a better future
A massively expanded state is needed with a greater role for unions and the people themselves: PROF KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY QC present 'a post-Covid-19 manifesto'
Amazon thanks NHS workers with a rainbow projection – yet the company is notorious for its treatment of its own staff

MUCH has been written in recent months from across the political spectrum about Lenin’s famous aphorism that “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

But apart from a determination that we should not return to the past, little time has been spent reflecting on Lenin’s even more famous question: “what is to be done?”

Now is the time for answers.

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