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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
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YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
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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