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The Communist Party's ANDY BAIN asks how the labour movement should approach easing the lockdown

The government is caught between a rock and a hard place and they will steer towards the rock of profits rather than the people’s health.
The deliberately confusing easing of the existing partial lockdown opens the door to employers to force workers back to unhealthy workplaces and will persuade some of those desperate, for whatever reason, to get out of the house. This could lead to the lockdown crumbling, causing confusion and stress and a high chance of a second spike in deaths.
Covid-19 has exposed the many faultlines of capitalism across the full range of human activity, the economic, political, scientific, infrastructure and the social.
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