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If coronavirus is a war Britain and America are losing
The 'winners' so far are some of the losers of WW2 — Germany and Japan — and the industrialised nations of East Asia, including Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and socialist China. If the West ever recovers, it will be changed forever, writes JOE GILL
Las Vegas councilman Cedric Crear gives a media tour of the coronavirus isolation and quarantine complex for the homeless, hastily built in a car park
The public recognise the corrosive influence of the rich over our democracy, argues MIKE COWLEY — it’s a shame the Labour Party doesn’t
JORDAN RIVERA and DEANA BROOKS assess the recently concluded 358-day strike, related disputes at other hospital trusts and lessons for future action
Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
THE battle to contain coronavirus is a war. The metaphor may be crude and a virus not a foreign army, but it does strike people down in the random ways that bombs do, even if buildings are all still standing. And as in real wars, it is the working class and minorities who face the brunt of danger and death.
Wars are brutal tests of societies and governments — historically they have marked the end of one era and the beginning of another, especially the great wars that defined the last century.
Coronavirus is a world pandemic and it has the quality of a total war too — all of economic and social life is affected and reorganised around fighting it.
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