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Building an economic alternative during Covid-19
Our movement must use the pandemic to unite around a clear set of demands that protect public health and advance an alternative economic vision that puts working people before private profit once and for all, writes HELEN O'CONNOR
NHS Nightingale hospital
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IT IS clear that the government strategy to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 is at best not working and at worst seriously compromised by the interests of big business.
It should be of concern to all that there are open and public admissions that this Tory government is ignoring scientists. In the meantime, a new language has been invented to try to convince the public that the government is doing a good job, as ineffective, partial lockdowns in which most public venues remain open are graded into “tiers” — and it would be easier for the public to visit the moon than benefit from “operation moonshot.”
Billions are being wasted on a failing test, track and trace system. Some £12 billion has already been handed over to these companies, some consultants are on over £6,000 a day.
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