Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism

PPE highlights

Health / Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism

In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.

2 Jan 2022 ,
Health / Covid-19: Damning report highlights unpreparedness and corruption

Under cover of a global health emergency, our rulers have executed a blatant raid on the Treasury.

20 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
Health / DVLA: Keeping non-essential staff in offices is endangering lives

The biggest outbreak of covid yet recorded in Britain is taking place in a government office in Wales – and staff are still being forced to come in to work.

27 Jan 2021 , Proletarian

Health / Covid: Frontline workers are paying for the crisis with their lives

Thousands of businesses are claiming to be ‘essential’, forcing staff to come to work but failing to provide PPE or to implement proper safety measures.

25 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
Economy / Covid: Parasites enjoy a bonanza whilst workers struggle

There has never been a better time for workers to learn hard truths about the nature of the capitalist system.

31 Oct 2020 ,
Health / PPE scandal: crony capitalists make a killing while frontline workers sacrificed

Meanwhile, the system’s defenders are worried that workers might learn the right lessons.

26 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
Health / We are not battery hens: covid outbreaks in the meat packing industry

Why are so many workers in the meat processing industry succumbing to the coronavirus?

3 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
Disputes / Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing

Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.

25 Jun 2020 ,
Pay and conditions / Workers in the US and Britain fight for workplace safety

Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation.

15 May 2020 , Proletarian
Health / Covid-19: Why is it that Cuba can manufacture PPE, but Britain can’t?

Britain’s frontline workers continue to put their lives on the line, paid in broken promises and empty gestures.

28 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
Health / Coronavirus stats are air-brushing the elderly

Thousands of Covid-19 infections and deaths in Britain’s care homes have simply not been tracked or counted.

20 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
Health / Britain’s response to Covid-19 pt 1: ‘Take it on the chin’

What the coronavirus teaches us about our rulers’ attitudes and priorities.

27 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

14 May 2019 ,

PPE theory

Capitalist crisis / The economic crisis and coronavirus

In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.

11 May 2020, Lalkar

1
Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands

With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’
2
US-south Korean war games are fuelling the drive towards war in the Pacific
3
Outrageous ‘assessment of human rights concerns’ in Xinjiang by UN commission
4
A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 1
5
President Maduro: The significance of the Communist Manifesto
6
Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky
7
Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!
8
Jacob Dreizen: The fall of the Azov
9
Real antifascist work means engaging with workers, not dismissing them
10
Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder

PPE highlights

Health / Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism

In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.

Health / Covid-19: Damning report highlights unpreparedness and corruption

Under cover of a global health emergency, our rulers have executed a blatant raid on the Treasury.

Health / DVLA: Keeping non-essential staff in offices is endangering lives

The biggest outbreak of covid yet recorded in Britain is taking place in a government office in Wales – and staff are still being forced to come in to work.

Health / Covid: Frontline workers are paying for the crisis with their lives

Thousands of businesses are claiming to be ‘essential’, forcing staff to come to work but failing to provide PPE or to implement proper safety measures.

Economy / Covid: Parasites enjoy a bonanza whilst workers struggle

There has never been a better time for workers to learn hard truths about the nature of the capitalist system.

Health / PPE scandal: crony capitalists make a killing while frontline workers sacrificed

Meanwhile, the system’s defenders are worried that workers might learn the right lessons.

Health / We are not battery hens: covid outbreaks in the meat packing industry

Why are so many workers in the meat processing industry succumbing to the coronavirus?

Disputes / Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing

Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.

Pay and conditions / Workers in the US and Britain fight for workplace safety

Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation.

Health / Covid-19: Why is it that Cuba can manufacture PPE, but Britain can’t?

Britain’s frontline workers continue to put their lives on the line, paid in broken promises and empty gestures.

Health / Coronavirus stats are air-brushing the elderly

Thousands of Covid-19 infections and deaths in Britain’s care homes have simply not been tracked or counted.

Health / Britain’s response to Covid-19 pt 1: ‘Take it on the chin’

What the coronavirus teaches us about our rulers’ attitudes and priorities.

Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

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Capitalist crisis / The economic crisis and coronavirus

In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.

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