The Hidden Coronavirus Crisis
Away from the frontline, coronavirus is putting pressure on essential services across Britain’s NHS – and exposing the costs of understaffing and underfunding on every stage of healthcare from cradle to grave.
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Ellie Whittaker
Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
The Case for a Universal Basic Income
Scottish deputy leader candidate Matt Kerr argues that now is the time to introduce a Universal Basic Income – to provide a floor in society beneath which no-one is permitted to fall.
Europe’s Coronavirus Battle
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed longstanding divisions in the European Union, with the issue of eurobonds dividing the north and south – and solidarity in short supply.
Coronavirus Against the Market
Coronavirus has exposed the fragility of global capitalism and left governments facing a choice – the survival of the market or the survival of humanity.
Childcare in an Age of Coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis has left many parents trying to balance a full-time job with childcare – and in the process shone a light on the ways unpaid work in the home props up our entire economy.
Towards a National Food Service
A National Food Service isn’t pie in the sky. The technology already exists in the food delivery sector – and should be used for the public good rather than private profit.
Councils Against Coronavirus
Britain’s councils are at the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis, providing services to the vulnerable when others have stopped – Momentum has compiled a list of demands to help them weather the storm.
The Coronavirus Housing Crisis
The latest recession may not have been caused by housing but it will play a big role in how it unfolds – from tenants facing eviction to bursting debt bubbles and falling house prices.
They Don’t Really Care About Our Carers
Hollow words from the government can’t disguise the reality facing the UK’s care workers – underpaid, overworked, insecure and now facing a pandemic without essential protective equipment.
It’s Time to Fully Nationalise the Health Service
The scale of the coronavirus crisis requires decisive action in our health service. It’s time to requisition private hospitals, insource all NHS staff and take public control of the production of essential medical equipment.
Tearing Apart Britain’s Safety Net
In the last decade the government has cut a £34 billion hole in Britain’s safety net, leaving the unemployed and vulnerable with minimal supports. Coronavirus shows why that was such a huge mistake.
How Outsourcing Undermines the NHS
Recent years have seen an explosion in outsourcing in the NHS, with essential staff like hospital cleaners contracted out for less than a living wage. Now the practice is undermining the fight against coronavirus.
Coronavirus Is the End of the End of History
The coronavirus crisis, and its accompanying recession, will bring about a new political and economic order – but it remains to be seen whether the Left can rise to the historical moment.
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
On this day in 1911 one of the deadliest industrial fires in US history exposed the need for stronger trade unions – and emboldened women garment workers to fight for them.
Thank You Jeremy Corbyn
As Jeremy Corbyn bows out with his last Prime Minister’s Questions, we remember what his leadership of the Labour Party made possible.
Why Silicon Valley Loves Coronavirus
Coronavirus is the shock that Silicon Valley needed to complete its workplace revolution – with new technologies mediating our daily lives in ways that will be difficult to reverse.
Nudging to Nowhere
The government’s disastrous herd immunity strategy owed much to its fabled ‘nudge unit’ – a relic from an ideological past, when policymakers believed that small changes would solve big problems.
Lavery Hits Back
Right-wing attacks won’t stop me from getting the message across to members that now is the time to organise in defence of your communities, writes Labour Party chair Ian Lavery.
How Market Reforms Made the NHS Vulnerable to Pandemics
A 2014 report warned that reforms to the NHS would make it vulnerable to pandemics – by making staff redundant, undermining public health and defining spare capacity as waste. It was ignored.
Coronavirus Exposes Construction’s Bogus Self-Employment
More than a million workers in the construction industry are bogusly classified as self-employed. If the government wants them to stay home, it has to extend wage protections to cover them.