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Government policy is driving the Covid crisis
The Tories are using the pandemic as cover to push though their austerity agenda, which falls hardest on workers, the poor and the oppressed, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
IT IS A strange fact that the some of the richest countries in the world have some of the worst outcomes in the pandemic, along with other countries like Brazil.
Given that social conditions, housing and, above all, health services are far better resourced in the richest countries, this can only mean one thing. It is government policy that it is driving the crisis.
Frequently, government claims on the pandemic lapse into unverifiable or even demonstrably untrue assertions.
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